Mr Damian Bugg AM QC has served on the Council since September 2001.

He was born in Tasmania and attended school and university in Hobart and was admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of Tasmania in 1969.

Damian was Senior Litigation Partner in the Hobart law firm Dobson Mitchell and Allport when he was appointed the first Director of Public Prosecutions for Tasmania in July 1986. He took silk in 1994.

He has been President of the Bar Association of Tasmania, Chairman of the Legal Assistance Scheme (Southern) and a Member of the Council of the Law Society of Tasmania. He was a Member of the Council of the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration for 9 years and is currently President and a Board Member of the Canadian based International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law.

He chaired the Electronic Recording Committee which implemented the program of video recorded Police interviews in Tasmania in 1987, and established and chaired the Forensic Science Services Committee in 1988, has written and spoken about Victims Rights, Pretrial Disclosure, Commitals and Procedural Reform.

In 1998 Damian was made a Fellow of the University of Tasmania and was appointed Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions in August 1999. He received the Centenary Medal in 2003 and was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2005.

Damian married Jenny in 1971. They have a son and daughter.