Frances Gibson completed an Arts /Law Degree at the Australian National University and a Diploma in Criminology at the University of Sydney. She moved to Sydney and spent a year in private practice as a lawyer at a medium sized law firm Pigott Stinson. Since then with the exception of a year in 1995 where she worked as Principal Lawyer with the Independent Commission Against Corruption, she has worked as a lawyer and educator in legal aid organisations.
Frances has worked with the Aboriginal Legal Service and the Legal Aid Commission of New South Wales. She spent 7 years with Redfern Legal Centre where she was Principal Solicitor as well as undertaking extensive work in community legal education. At Kingsford Legal Centre she works as a senior lecturer in the Law School and has introduced significant changes and expansion to the clinical programs run by the Centre. She is recognised as a specialist in legal aid issues and clinical legal education and is also Principal Solicitor at the Centre and responsible for supervision of the 4 staff lawyers and work of 50 volunteer lawyers working at the Centre.
Frances’ expertise was recognised by the invitation in 1999 to be the first Visiting Clinical Scholar at New York University for 6 months. The Centre has maintained and expanded its excellent reputation for clinical legal education, discrimination law, expertise in legal aid issues, policy and law reform work and community legal education. In 2001 she was a recipient of a Quality Teaching Award from the NSW Minister for Education and Training and the Australian College of Education. She is on the Board of the Combined Community Legal centres group, the Management Committee of the Eastern Area Tenants’ Service.
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