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To be a Companion of the Queen’s Service Order.
For services to the judiciary and the community.
Judge David Holderness was appointed as a
District Court Judge in 1988 and served as either
a full or part-time Judge for 25 years until retiring
in 2013.
David was resident in the Christchurch District
Court throughout his tenure, and from 2006 he
sat as an Acting Warranted Judge. From 1991
to 1995 he was the Civil Liaison Judge for the
Southern Region and its Executive Judge from
1995 to 1998, with administrative responsibility
for the judges of all of the South Island, except
for the Nelson/Blenheim district. He has been
chair of Christchurch Men’s, Rolleston and
Christchurch Women’s District Prison Board,
chair of the Dunedin Prison District Board and
panel convenor of the New Zealand Parole Board
from 2011 to 2013. He was a board member of
the Odyssey House Trust addiction treatment
services provider from 1992 to 2004.
He has served in a number of positions with
the Canterbury District Law Society. David has
been chair of Fendalton Primary School Board
of Trustees, a member of the Trust Board of
Medbury Preparatory School, the committee of
the Canterbury Branch of Royal Forest and Bird
Society, the Travis Charitable Trust Board and
vice president and president of the Christchurch
Club from 2006 to 2010.
Judge David James Robert Holderness (6765)