Appointed May 2016. Leads a group that works across the Government Legal Network.
Has experience as in-house counsel and statutory decision-maker and applying professional standards, and appears in cases about the exercise of public powers.
After litigation roles in private firms, first role in government was as a lawyer for the Department of Conservation.
Joined Crown Law in 2001, initially as an associate Crown counsel and then as Crown counsel.
From 2009 to 2014 was director of proceedings in the Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner.