Philip Woodward (judge)

Philip Morgan Woodward (2 February 1912 – 10 November 1997)^[1] was an Australian judge. He chaired the Royal Commission into Drug Trafficking.

Woodward was president of the New South Wales Bar Association from 1969 to 1971,^[2] and president of the Australian Bar Association from 1970 to 1971.^[3] He was awarded the National Medal in 1992.^[4]

On 10 November 1997 Woodward died in a head-on car crash after suffering a heart attack.^{[citation needed]}