Joan rosanove biography

Australian lawyer and advocate

Joan Mavis Rosanove (née Lazarus; 11 May 1896 – 8 April 1974) was an Australian lawyer and advocate for the rights of women to practice law, and the first woman in Australia to take silk.

Joan Rosanove was born in Ballarat, Australia.

Joan Mavis Rosanove was an Australian lawyer and advocate for the rights of women to practice law, and the first woman in Australia to take silk.

Joan Mavis Rosanove was an Australian lawyer and advocate for the rights of women to practice law, and the first woman in Australia to take silk.

Joan Mavis Rosanove (), lawyer, was born on at Ballarat, Victoria, second of eight children of Melbourne-born parents Mark Aaron Lazarus.

Joan Mavis Rosanove (née Lazarus; – 8 April ) was an Australian lawyer and advocate for the rights of women to practice law, and the first.

Australian lawyer Joan Rosanove was the first woman in Victoria to work specifically as a courtroom lawyer.

Joan Mavis Rosanove was born in Ballarat in She was admitted to practice on 2 June , and became the first woman barrister in Victoria.

Her father Mark Aaron Lazarus was a barrister and solicitor; both her parents were non-practicingJews.^[1] She attended the Loreto convent school and Clarendon Ladies' College; she was articled to her father in 1917 and began to attend the University of Melbourne to study law.

She was formally admitted to practice as a barrister and solicitor on 2 June 1919.

In 1920 she married Emmanuel ('Mannie') Rosanove, a dermatologist, and they had two daughters. In 1923 the family moved to Melbourne, and in September that year she was the first woman in Victoria to sign the Victorian Bar roll.

She could not obtain room in the Selborne Chambers, but established a successful practice nonetheless