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Council 

Hamish Wixon BSc, BArch(Hons), ANZIA

Director, McCoy & Wixon Architects Ltd. Fellow, New Zealand Institute of Architects. Chairman, NZIA, Southern Branch. Director of the New Zealand Architects Cooperative Society.

A member of the College Council since 1997, Hamish became president in 2006.

 


 

Rachel Cardoza LLB(Otago)

Rachel graduated with an LLB from Otago in 1989 and was admitted to the bar that same year. She worked briefly for the United States Government in pre-trial services dealing with felons in a Californian prison. Rachel has been in practice for fourteen years and in 1997 started her own law practice in partnership with a long time University of Otago friend, Suzie Staley. This was the first all woman law partnership in Otago.

Rachel is Senior Counsel, practising predominantly in Family Law and is Court Appointed Counsel for Child and Counsel to Assist the Court. For the past 14 years she has worked as a volunteer at the Dunedin Community Law Centre assisting law students gain real life experience. She was elected President of the University of Otago Graduates Association in 2001 and the following year was the University August graduation speaker. In September 2002 she joined the Saint Margaret’s College Council.

 

Barbara Duncan BSc

Barbara is an ex-Resident of the College and has been a Member of the College Council since 1997. Barbara Duncan was in charge of tutorials in the Chemistry department and has been tutoring at St Margaret's College since 1990.





 

Suzanne Kinnaird BSc, DipGrad

Suzanne was a resident of the College in 1992 and 1993.  She graduated from Otago University in 1995 and was President of the University of Otago Graduates’ Association from 2004 - 2006.

In 1998 she took up her current position as an Investment Advisor with Forsyth Barr Ltd in their Dunedin office and became a member of the New Zealand Stock Exchange in 2001.



 

Professor Steve MacDonell BCom(Hons), MCom

Stephen G. MacDonell is Professor of Software Engineering and Head of the School of Information Technology at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand.

He holds BCom(Hons) and MCom degrees in information science from the University of Otago and a PhD in software engineering from the University of Cambridge.

His main research activities are in the areas of software measurement, project planning, estimation and management, software engineering data analysis, and software forensics. He is a member of the ACM and NZCS.


 

Dorothy Page MA(NZ), PhD(Otago)

Member of the College Council since 1997.

Dorothy is a Southern person, born and brought up in Invercargill and educated
at the University of Otago. There she completed  MA Hons degrees in both History and French and much later, after marriage, three children and various part-time academic positions,  a Ph D in History. From 1970 to 2000 she lectured at Otago, with the greatest enjoyment, on Medieval European, Modern French and Women’s history, the last of these a new a field she helped develop. When she retired she was an associate professor and had just completed five years as Head of History.

Much of Dorothy’s research has focused on women’s history and biography. She has written essays on women for all five volumes of the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography and has published on New Zealand women’s nationality, women’s service organizations and early women graduates of Otago University, including an article on the first fifty women who graduated in medicine. Her centennial history of the National Council of Women of New Zealand appeared in 1996.Her most recent work, Anatomy of a Medical School: a History of Medicine at the University of Otago, 1875-2000, came out in 20008. She is now writing a history of the business arm of the Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland. Dorothy’s contribution to women’s history and women’s organizations was recognised by the award of a suffrage medal in 1993 and an MBE in 1996.
 
Other activities include convening an inter-disciplinary Unit on the History of Otago University. She is a Fellow of the Hocken Library and of Knox College and serves on the Council of St Margaret’s College. She is President of the Otago Settlers Association, a support organization for the Otago Settlers Museum, which it originally founded in 1898, and national President of the New Zealand Federation of Graduate Women.



Professor Ian G. Tucker BPharm (Hons) PhD(Qld) FNZCP MPS RegPharmNZ 

Member of the College Council since 1996. Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Otago. 







Justin Geddes BCom (Otago), C.A

Member of the College Council since 2010. Resident of the College in 1992.

Justin is a Principal in the Otago branch of the accounting firm WHK. Growing up with a farming background, he specialises in rural accounting, delivering practical farm accounting and business advice. Justin splits his time between the Dunedin and Milton offices, servicing a broad cross section of rural and commercial clients across the Otago region.