EJD Stanley, 1894 to 1993, was appointed Acting Supreme Justice in 1944 and a Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland in 1947, making him the first graduate of UQ to be appointed to the Supreme Court. In 1923, he became the first graduate of UQ to be elected to the University Senate. His years on the Senate saw the establishment of the faculties of Medicine, Dentistry and Law, the debate over the site of the university’s new home, and the building programme for the new site at St Lucia. Stanley served on the Senate alongside Sir Matthew Noonan, AJ Thynne, William Forgan Smith, JD Story, Archbishop Duhig and Sir James Blair (Stanley’s uncle). He remained an elected member of the UQ Senate until 1950. Sir James William Blair, KCMG, 1870 to 1944, was an Australian politician, lawyer and judge. He was elected to the Queensland Parliament on several occasions and became Attorney-General in 1903. In later life he took up an appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland and went on to become the Chief Justice of that court. Blair took on many civic roles including that of Chancellor of the University of Queensland in 1927.