Quentin Bryce Quentin Bryce Dame Quentin Alice Louise Bryce (née Strachan; born 23 December 1942) is an Australian academic who served as the 25th Governor-General of Australia from 2008 to 2014. She is the first woman to have held the position, and was previously the Governor of Queensland from 2003 to 2008. Born in Brisbane, Queensland, Bryce was raised in Ilfracombe, with her family subsequently living in a number of country towns around Australia. She attended the University of Queensland, where she completed a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws, becoming one of the first women accepted to the Queensland
Alison Quentin-Baxter Alison Quentin-Baxter Dame Alison Burns Quentin-Baxter (née Souter, born 1929) is a retired New Zealand constitutional lawyer. She advised a number of small island states on the drafting of their constitutional documents. Quentin-Baxter was born and grew up in Auckland. Both her sets of grandparents were farmers and she spent many holidays on their farms in the Waikato and Kaipara. She attended Nga Tawa Diocesan School for her last years of secondary schooling, and studied law at the University of Auckland where she became chair of the students' law society in her final year, the first woman to hold the