Organisation
Attorneys-General 1823-present
Heads of the Attorney General's Department (after amalgamation with the Department of Justice in 1901)
Undersecretaries Attorney General's Department 1875-1901
Undersecretaries Department of Justice 1873-1901





Attorneys-General 1823 - present

2011 -	The Hon. (Greg) Gregory Eugene Smith
2007 - 2011	The Hon. John Hatzistergos
2000 - 2007	The Hon. Robert (Bob) John Debus
1995 - 2000	The Hon. Jeffrey (Jeff) William Shaw
1992 - 1995	The Hon. John Planta Hannaford
1991 - 1992	The Hon. Peter Edward James Collins
1988 - 1991	The Hon. John Robert Arthur Dowd
1987 - 1988	The Hon. Ronald Joseph Mulock
1984 - 1987	The Hon. Terence (Terry) William Sheahan
1984	The Hon. Neville Kenneth Wran
1983 - 1984	The Hon. David Paul Landa
1976 - 1983	The Hon. Francis (Frank) John Walker
1975 - 1976	The Hon. John Clarkson Maddison
1965 - 1975	Sir Kenneth Malcolm McCaw
1956 - 1965	The Hon. Robert Reginald Downing
1953 - 1956	The Hon. William Francis Sheahan
1941 - 1953	Major Clarence (Clarrie) Edward Martin
1932 - 1941	Sir Henry Edward Manning
1932	Sir Daniel Levy
1931 - 1932	Mr Joseph Lamaro
1927 - 1930	Mr Francis Stewart Boyce
1927, 1930 - 1931	Mr Andrew Augustus Lysaght
1921 - 1925	Sir Thomas Rainsford Bavin
1920 - 1922, 1925 - 1927	Sir Edward Aloysius McTiernan
1919 - 1920	The Hon. John Garland
1912 - 1913 (acting), 1914 - 1919	The Hon. David Robert Hall
1910 - 1914	Mr William Arthur Holman
1904 - 1910	Sir Charles Gregory Wade
1904	The Hon. James Conley Gannon
1899	Sir George Houston Reid
1893 - 1894	The Hon. Charles Gilbert Heydon
1889, 1891 - 1893	Sir Edmund Barton
1887 - 1888, 1899 - 1904	Mr Bernhard Ringrose Wise
1885 - 1886, 1888 - 1889, 1889 - 1891, 1894	Mr George Bowen Simpson
1885, 1886 - 1887, 1894 - 1898, 1898 - 1899	Mr John Henry Want
1879 - 1883	Sir Robert Wisdom
1877- 1878, 1887	Mr William John Foster
1877, 1878 - 1879	Sir William Charles Windeyer
1875 - 1877, 1877, 1883 - 1885	Mr William Bede Dalley
1873 - 1875	Sir Joseph George Long Innes
1872 - 1873	Mr Edward Butler
1836 - 1856, 1865 - 1866	Mr John Hubert Plunkett
1860 - 1863	Mr John Fletcher Hargrave
1859 - 1860	Mr Edward Wise
1859	Mr Lyttelton Holyoake Bayley
1858 - 1859	Mr Alfred James Peter Lutwyche
1857, 1863, 1865	Sir John Bayley Darvall
1856, 1857 - 1858, 1863 - 1865, 1866 - 1868, 1870 -1872	Sir James Martin
1856 - 1857, 1860, 1868 - 1870	Sir William Montagu Manning
1841 - 1843 (acting)	Sir Roger Therry
1836 - 1856, 1865 - 1866	Mr John Hubert Plunkett
1831 - 1836	Mr John Kinchela
1826 - 1831	Mr Alexander Macduff Baxter
1826	Mr William Henry Moore
1823 - 1826	Mr Saxe Bannister

1991 - to date	Laurence Geoffrey (Laurie) Glanfield, AM
1978 - 1991	Trevor William Haines, AO
1965 - 1978	Leslie Kenneth Downs
1956 - 1964	Simpson Wallace Ramsay
1945 - 1956	Roy Walter Strong Kelly
1936 - 1945	Melville Charles Nott
1933 - 1935	William Butler Geddes
1924 - 1933	William James Kessell
1921 - 1924	David Ross Jamieson
1919 - 1921	George Whitfield (also Acting 1916 - 1919)
1905 - 1919	James Leslie Williams
1901 - 1904	George Miller

1896 - 1901	Hugh Pollock
1880 - 1896	William Wilberforce Stephen
1878 - 1880	George Houston Reid
1875 - 1878	Alexander Greville