Supreme and District Court executive director that she would not sit with Carmody. Carmody disclosed the meeting with Johnson and Cowan made an application that Carmody recuse himself for apprehended bias. Carmody proposed to deal with the recusal application himself, which promoted a further reaction from McMurdo and Fraser that there was a reasonable apprehension that in stating the recusal application was utterly preposterous, Carmody had prejudged the recusal application. Carmody subsequently withdrew from the case "instead of prolonging this bizarre sideshow". Subsequent career McMurdo was appointed Chair of the Legal Aid Board of Queensland in May 2017. In December 2018 McMurdo was appointed as commissioner for the Royal Commission into the Management of Police Informants which was set up to examine the actions of Nicola Gobbo and Victoria Police whilst Gobbo was working as a lawyer and acting as a registered informer. Honours On 11 June 2007 McMurdo was made a Companion of the Order of Australia for "For service to the law and judicial administration in Queensland, particularly in the areas of legal education and women's issues, to the support of a range of legal organisations, and to the community." Personal life In 1976 McMurdo married Philip McMurdo who would subsequently join her as a judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland. They have four adult children. References Judges of the Supreme Court of Queensland Australian women judges Judges of the District Court of Queensland Fellows of the Australian Academy of Law 20th-century Australian judges 21st-century Australian judges Companions of the Order of Australia 1954 births Living people 20th-century women judges 21st-century women judges 20th-century Australian women Public defenders