The Hon Barry O'Keefe AM QC has been a Member of the National Trust for 40 years and was President from July 1991 to November 2006. His inspirational legacy will live on at the Trust for many years to come.
Mr O'Keefe was a Member of the Bar for 36 years, President of the Bar Council in 1990 and 1991 and was appointed as Chief Judge of the Commercial Division and an Additional Judge of Appeal of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 1993. In November 1994 he was appointed Commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (NSW) for the maximum statutory term of five years. On his retirement from that office he returned to the Supreme Court, where he sat in the Common Law Division, the Court of Criminal Appeal and the Court of Appeal as required. He retired from judicial office in 2004.
From 1968 until 1991 Mr O'Keefe was an Alderman on Mosman Council and was Mayor of Mosman for 10 years. He served on the Executive of the Local Government Association of New South Wales for 14 years and was President from 1986 to 1988. He remains a patron of the Association.
In 1998 Mr O'Keefe was appointed as an interim Trustee of the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust and on the incorporation of the Trust under the Sydney Harbour Federation Act 2001 (Cth) he was appointed as a Trustee, an office he still retains.
He was made a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia in January 1989 and in 2003 the Centenary Medal was conferred on him. He was appointed a Freeman of the City of London in 1991.

Mr O'Keefe has long associations with a number of environmental bodies, is interested in Australian native bushland, its conservation and regeneration and has for many years been a supporter of heritage projects.

Mr O'Keefe is married and has five adult children.