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Dame Marie Roslyn Bashir
AD
,
CVO
(born 1 December 1930) is the 37th Governor of New South Wales, and the first woman to hold the position.
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She was appointed on 1 March 2001.
[1]
She was born in
Narrandera, New South Wales
, and later went to the Sydney Girls High School. She studied medicine and surgery at the
University of Sydney
, graduating in 1956. She worked in
mental health
, and became the Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Sydney.
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She was made an
Officer of the Order of Australia
in 1988 for her services to child and adolescent health.
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From 1957 until his death in 2018, Bashir was married to former
Sydney
Lord Mayor
Sir Nicholas Shehadie
.