Thomas Bradley is proud to serve all Queenslanders.

His Excellency the Honourable Thomas Bradley KC, Governor of Queensland, was born in Cairns, the second of eight children of Jack and Margaret Bradley. He was educated at St Bernard’s Primary School and Clairvaux College in Brisbane, where he was school captain. He graduated from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Laws.

He completed articles with Morris Fletcher & Cross, now MinterEllison, becoming a senior associate with the firm. He lectured in industrial law at the Queensland University of Technology and the University of Queensland, where he later taught in the Master of Laws program.

Admitted as a barrister in 2000, he practised in commercial disputes, with a focus on economic regulation, competition policy, energy, resources and construction. In 2013 he was appointed Queen’s Counsel. In 2018, he became a judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland. He served as Principal Commercial List Judge, Senior Class Action List Judge and a judicial member of the Legal Practice Tribunal before being appointed to the Court of Appeal in 2025.

Alongside a distinguished legal career, the Governor has made a significant contribution to Queensland’s cultural, charitable and community life. He has served on the Council of the National Library of Australia and the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation Committee. He chaired the Brisbane Festival Giving Committee, the Brisbane Writers Festival, and Access Arts, which supports access to the arts for people with disability or disadvantage.

He was the first Queensland-based ambassador for the Pinnacle Foundation, an education charity for LGBTQIA+ Australians. He was awarded the Quinn Medal for service on the committee of the Mary MacKillop Brisbane Catholic School Access Fund. He was a director of The Australiana Fund and a Fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society.

His Excellency was sworn in as the 28th Governor of Queensland on 1 November 2026.