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.


 

Associate Professor Dorothy Page MA(NZ), PhD(Otago)

Member of the College Council since 1997.

Resident of the College 1953-55. Former Head of the History Department and Former President of the New Zealand Historical Association. Former President of the Otago Branch, Federation of Graduate Women, life member of Dunedin Business and Professional Women and Vice-President Otago Settlers' Association. Research interests in women's history. Author of the centennial history of the National Council of Women. Awarded an MBE for service to the community in 1996.
 

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 and Dean of the School of Pharmacy at the University of Otago.