In 2017, 2018 and 2019 she was ranked in Chambers Asia-Pacific Guide as a Band 1 Lawyer in the Charities practice area.

Heather is a member of the ACNC Advisory Board

Member of the Queensland Law Society

Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors

LLB; Graduate Certificate in Business (Philanthropy and Non Profit Studies) QUT

Solicitor of Supreme Court of Queensland 1988

High Court Roll 1989

Contributing to the governance and legal review of a collaborative impact model involving government and non- government agencies, philanthropy and corporate contributors in Logan

Establishment of a body corporate for a Redress representative – involving the facilitation of a number of forums across an Australian wide Church involving Assembly and Synod decision-making bodies, development of a model and supporting discussion papers which has resulted in the establishment of a separately legal entity, effectively a joint venture of the relevant Assembly and Synod bodies, and the conduit for the Church’s engagement with the National Redress Scheme – emerging out of the Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual Abuse

Engaging with a University College and its founder Church to review its governance model and to identify an optimum and contemporary evolution of its governance and legal structures. Developing the new model of constitution and supporting relationship agreement between the College and the Synod

Establishment of charitable and philanthropic structures with supporting governance and achieving tax efficiency

Evolving member organisation structures to contemporary models of legal and governance which access to relevant tax and duty concessions