Roma Mitchell

The Honourable Dame Roma Mitchell AC, DBE, CVO, QC
Mitchell in 1965
31st Governor of South Australia
In office 6 February 1991 – 21 July 1996
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Premier	John Bannon (1991–1992) Lynn Arnold (1992–1993) Dean Brown (1993–1996)
Preceded by	Sir Donald Dunstan
Succeeded by	Sir Eric Neal
Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia
In office 23 September 1965 – 1 October 1983
Personal details
Born	(1913-10-02)2 October 1913 Adelaide, South Australia
Died	5 March 2000(2000-03-05) (aged 86) Adelaide, South Australia
Education	St Aloysius College, Adelaide
Alma mater	University of Adelaide
Profession	Judge

Dame Roma Flinders Mitchell, AC, DBE, CVO, QC (2 October 1913 – 5 March 2000)^[1] was an Australian lawyer, judge and state governor. She was the first woman to hold a number of positions in Australia – the country's first woman judge, the first woman to be a Queen's Counsel, a chancellor of an Australian university and the Governor of an Australian state.

Mitchell was considered to be a pioneer of the Australian women's rights movement. Her grandfather, Samuel James Mitchell, was the first Chief Justice of the Northern Territory.