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Yvonne Swift
Yvonne Swift (1912-1990) was a religious in the order of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, who in the 1970s trained as a lawyer, established her own practice and represented some of Sydney's most notorious criminals.

Biography

Education: Dominican Convent, Moss Vale NSW. Sacre Coeur College, Glen Iris, Victoria. University of Melbourne.

Religious Life. Yvonne joined the RSCJ order in 1938, and took her first vows in 1940 in the Chapel of the Sacred Coeur Convent in Rose Bay NSW.

Teaching qualifications: Yvonne was certified as a primary teacher in 1941 and as a secondary teacher in 1945