Frances Adamson

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Frances Jennifer Adamson (born 20 April 1961) is an Australian diplomat and public servant who served as the 36th governor of South Australia from 2021 to 2026. Before assuming the vice-regal office, she had a long career in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), including appointments as Australia's ambassador to China from 2011 to 2015 and secretary of DFAT from 2016 to 2021, becoming the first woman to serve in both positions. Adamson was born in South Australia and brought up in the eastern suburbs of Adelaide as a sixth generation South Australian. She is the daughter of former South Australian parliamentarian Jennifer Cashmore as well as the stepdaughter of journalist Stewart Cockburn. She is the older sibling of Supreme Court of New South Wales judge Christine Adamson. Adamson attended Walford Anglican School for Girls but undertook a year's study at the Netherlands on an exchange program before completing her undergraduate studies at the University of Adelaide where...

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