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About Jan Wade
- Jan Louise Murray Wade (née Noone; born 8 July 1937) is a former Australian politician. She was born in Sydney to John Murray Noone and Lillian, née Knight.
- She attended Sydney High School and Firbank Girls' Grammar School and graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1959 with a Bachelor of Law.
- (She would later achieve a Bachelor of Arts in 1979.) She married Francis Bannatyne Lewis, with whom she had four children.
- From 1960 to 1961 she worked in London as a schoolteacher before returning to Australia as a law tutor at the University of Melbourne from 1963 to 1964.
- A solicitor from 1964 to 1967, she joined the Parliamentary Counsel's office in 1967, becoming Assistant Chief Parliamentary Counsel in 1978.
- Also in 1978 she married Peter Brian Wade, and, in so doing, acquired a step-daughter.
- In 1979 she was appointed Commissioner for Corporate Affairs, and in 1985 President of the Equal Opportunity Board.
- In 1988 she was elected in a by-election to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Liberal member for Kew.
- After her election she became Shadow Attorney-General; she moved to Women's Affairs in 1989 but resumed her previous role in 1990.
- Following the Coalition victory at the 1992 state election she became Attorney-General and Minister for Fair Trading and Women's Affairs.
- She retired from politics in 1999, since which time she has been a visiting professor for Victoria University and writer of an occasional column in the Australian Financial Review.
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