Dean Mildren

Dean Mildren, AM, RFD, QC (born 27 February 1943) was a Judge of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory. He was appointed to the Court on 27 June 1991, and retired February 2013. He is sworn in as an Acting Judge of the Court, so from time to time still adjudicates on cases in the Northern Territory.

Mildren was born in Adelaide, South Australia, and attended the Norwood High School and the University of Adelaide. He graduated with a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts and from 1966–68 was an Articled Clerk to James Henry Muirhead who was later to become a Judge of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory.

Mildren was a solicitor with Thomson & Co in Adelaide from 1968–71.

Mildren relocated to the Northern Territory in 1972 and established the firm Mildren & Partners in which he practised as a barrister & solicitor.

Mildren practised as a barrister from 1980 until his appointment to the bench in 1991. He was appointed as a Queen's Counsel in 1983 and was President of the Northern Territory Bar Association from 1987–91 having been Vice-President from 1989–90.

Mildren was President of the Northern Territory Law Society from 1973–75 and 1979–81. He was also Deputy Chairman of the Northern Territory Legal Practitioners Complaints Committee from 1983–88, Chairman of the Northern Territory Planning Appeals Committee from 1979–85, Chairman of the Northern Territory Council of Law Reporting from 1993–95 and President of the Northern Territory Law Reform Committee from 1991–97. He is a life member of the Criminal Lawyers Association of the Northern Territory.

In 2011, Mildren published a history, Big Boss Fella All Same Judge – A History of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory.

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