Anna Brown

Brown grew up in suburban Melbourne before studying politics and law at Monash University. She became president of the Law Students' Society, and played in the Victorian Women’s Football League.

After a time working in corporate law with Allens Arthur Robertson, she worked for the Federal Court as a Judge’s Associate to Justice Steven Rares. She has also been an adviser to former Victorian Attorney-General and Deputy Premier, Rob Hulls.

In the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours Brown was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for "service to human rights, and to the LGBTIQ community". In October 2019 she was named winner of the Social Enterprise and Not-for-profit category in The Australian Financial Review's 100 Women of Influence awards.

Brown was named Victorian GLBTI person of the year in November 2014, in the first GLOBE community awards. She was also a finalist for the Tony Fitzgerald Community Award in the 2014 Australian Human Rights Awards, a finalist in Victorian Australian of the Year in 2015 and winner of the Tim McCoy Award in 2015.

She joined the Human Rights Law Centre in 2011, and has led much of its work on LGBTI rights, marriage equality, gender recognition, and equality law reform, including the case of Norrie May Welby in the High Court.

Anna Shelley Brown OAM (born 1979) is a lawyer and activist. Until December 2018, she was Director of Legal Advocacy at the Human Rights Law Centre. In that month, she became the incoming chief executive of new LGBTI advocacy organisation Equality Australia.