Timothy J. McEvoy

Justice Timothy McEvoy was appointed to the Federal Court of Australia in 2022.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne in 1993. He obtained a Master of Laws from the University of Melbourne in 1998, and the degree of Doctor of Juridical Science from the University of Virginia in 1999.

McEvoy began his legal career as associate to the then-chief justice of the Federal Court in 1994, and was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria and the High Court of Australia in 1996. He was subsequently a solicitor and then senior associate in the litigation and competition groups at Freehills (now Herbert Smith Freehills) in Melbourne and Sydney. He practiced at the Victorian Bar from 2002 to 2019, largely in general commercial, public and common law. He was appointed Senior Counsel in Victoria in 2016. In 2019, McEvoy was appointed to the Family Court of Australia, and in 2020 he was appointed as a judicial deputy president of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.

Immediately prior to his appointment to the Family Court, McEvoy was senior counsel assisting the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. He has been a member of the visiting faculty at UVA Law since 2001, teaching an annual course in the conflict of laws. He has been a Fulbright Scholar and has served as a member of the Australian delegation of experts to a special commission of The Hague Conference on Private International Law (Jurisdiction and Judgments Convention). In 2018, he was elected to the American Law Institute. McEvoy has published a number of articles on private international law, administrative law and competition law in Australian and international law journals. He is a Board Member of OzChild.