Neil MacLean (coroner)

Neil MacLean
MacLean in 2015
1st Chief Coroner of New Zealand
In office
2007–2015
Succeeded byDeborah Marshall
District Court judge
In office
1993–2014
Personal details
Born
Allan Neil MacLean

(1944-11-24)24 November 1944
Died17 November 2022(2022-11-17) (aged 77)
Spouse
Susan Gordon Eliott
(m. 1969)
Children3
Alma materUniversity of Canterbury
Profession
  • Lawyer
  • judge
Known forCoronial inquiries into the Pike River Mine disaster and Christchurch earthquakes

Allan Neil MacLean QSO (24 November 1944 – 17 November 2022) was a New Zealand District Court judge and that country's first chief coroner, from 2007 to 2015. He was the coroner during the Pike River Mine disaster and the Christchurch earthquakes.