Crown Solicitor of South Australia

The Crown Solicitor of South Australia provides legal services to South Australian government Ministers, agencies and departments.

Crown Solicitor of South Australia
Incumbent Ingrid Norman since November 2021
Attorney-General's Department
Inaugural holder	Charles Mann
Formation	1837
Website	Attorney-General's Department (South Australia)

In the early days of the colony the titles of Advocate-General, Crown Solicitor and Public Prosecutor were bestowed together. That changed in 1850 due to the ill-health of then Advocate-General, William Smillie. As a consequence of Smillie's ill-health, the position of Crown Solicitor was given to Charles Mann. Mann briefly held the title of Acting Advocate-General before resigning that position in favour of Richard Hanson. Hanson became South Australia's last Advocate-General and the provinces first Attorney-General in the inaugural Parliament in 1857.

Since 1850, the position of Crown Solicitor has been a public sector employee. The current Crown Solicitor of South Australia, as of 8 November 2021, is Ingrid Norman.

List of Crown Solicitors of South Australia (1851 to 2025)

Crown Solicitor	Time in Office
Charles Mann	1837–38
George Milner Stephen	1838
Robert Bernard	1838–40
William Smillie	1840–52
William Bartley (Acting)	1849–50
Charles Mann	1850–56[1]
William Alfred Wearing QC[2]	1856–67[3]
William Bakewell	1867–70[4]
Richard Bullock Andrews QC[5][6]	1870–81[7]
Charles Mann QC	1881–89[8]
James Martin Stuart	1889–1905[9]
Charles James Dashwood KC[10][11]	1905–16[12]
Frederick William Richards KC[13]	1916–27[14]
Albert James Hannan[15][16]	1927–52[17]
Reginald Roderick St Clair Chamberlain KC[18][19]	1952–59[20]
Joseph Reginald Kearnan QC[21]	1959–68
William Andrew Noye Wells QC[22]	1968–69
Ralph Meyrick Hague	1969–70
Leslie Kenneth Gordon	1970–76
Graham Clifton Prior QC[23]	1976–84
Catherine Margaret Branson QC	1984–89
Bradley Maxwell Selway QC[24]	1989–96
Michael Walter QC[25]	1996–2004
Simon Stretton SC[26]	2004–10
Gregory Parker	2010–13
Michael Evans QC[27]	2015–16
Judith Hughes	2016–17[28]
Michael Wait SC[29]	2018–20
Laura Stein	2020–21[30]
Ingrid Norman	2021–2024
Lucinda Byers	2024–