The Leah Brown First Nations Scholarship in Law was established to support an eligible Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander studying Law at the University of Tasmania.
The vision is to provide financial assistance to encourage and support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in their study of the Law in the hope of helping develop legal capacity in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and to help increase the number of indigenous legal practitioners.
Leah is the founder and managing partner of Marrawah Law – Australia’s first and most spectacularly successful Aboriginal law firm that specialises in Commercial and First Nations Law. She was recently recognised as one of the Top 20 Under 40 business entrepreneurs in Australia. Leah was named Indigenous Legal Practitioner of the Year 2020 in Queensland, and nationally and took out the top gong at the Supply Nation Awards for 2021 as Certified Indigenous Business of the Year and Businesswoman of the Year. She was also recently appointed as one of the independent experts on the esteemed Australian Heritage Council.
Leah graduated from the University of Tasmania with a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws in 2006, and was admitted to legal practice in 2007. After several years in Cairns with the North Queensland Land Council, Leah established Marrawah Law in Cairns in 2013. Over the past decade, the firm has grown nationally with offices now in Cairns, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Hobart.
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