Isaac Isaacs (1855 to 1948) was an Australian lawyer and judge who was admitted to the bar in 1880 and became a prominent Melbourne barrister. He entered the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1892, serving as Solicitor-General and Attorney-General of Victoria, before moving to federal politics in 1901 and becoming Attorney-General of Australia in 1905 under Alfred Deakin. He sat on the High Court of Australia for twenty-four years, from 1906 to 1931, and while on the court wrote the landmark Engineers case of 1920, which abolished the reserved powers doctrine and established the paramountcy of Commonwealth law. He served as Chief Justice from 1930 until 1931, when he was appointed the ninth Governor-General of Australia, the first Australian-born and first Jewish person to hold that office, serving until 1936.
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