The Honourable Justice
Melanie Hindman
The Honourable Justice Melanie Hindman attended Oakey High for Grades11-12 in 1992-1993.
A self-proclaimed math/science nerd at school, Melanie participated in all available math/science competitions. She was Head of the Student Environmental Council, a TIP Leader to incoming High School Students and was the school & regional winner of Lions Youth of the Year.
After School Melanie went on to complete articles of clerkship at a small Brisbane City law firm, she worked as a solicitor at a national law firm and in 2003 went to the private Queensland Bar to practice as a Barrister. In 2017 Melanie was appointed as Queen's Counsel. She went on to practice in areas of commercial litigation with a particular focus on building and construction litigation.
In 2022 she was appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland in the trial division.
The Supreme Court of Queensland is the highest court in Queensland and hears the most serious of criminal cases, including murder, manslaughter and serious drug offences as well as civil matters involving amounts over $750, 000.
Melanie is still a big supporter of Oakey High sponsoring the 'AJ Hindman Women in Stem' Award each year at our Annual Awards Night.
Craig Teevan
Craig Teevan attended Oakey High from 1982-1986.
During his high schooling years Craig achieved great success excelling in sport mostly in the field of Rugby League. His sporting achievements whilst attending Oakey High was making the Queensland Schoolboys Rugby League U15 and Opens teams, Australian Open Schoolboys Team in 1986, Queensland Touch Football Team U15, Winner of the Queensland Athletics 400 metre event for U15 and Darling Downs Representative for swimming.
Craig says his fondest memories from school was the mate ships he formed, the High School Socials and Fun Fair’s.
Post school Craig was signed to play for the Brisbane Broncos in 1988 whilst he was
studying to be a teacher. He went on to teach for three years, teaching in Brisbane
for two of those years and one year in Sydney whilst playing for the Sharks and Manly.
In 1995 he became a fulltime professional sports athlete for four years. Playing
for South Queensland Crushers from 1995-1997 which saw him Captained the side in 1997. Craig played for Queensland in the State of Origin series in 1995 playing all three games in a clean sweep of the series. He finished his career with the Gold Coast Chargers having played 103 NRL games in total.
After retiring Craig became the CEO of the Ipswich Jets in the QRL for seven years. He then took a career path change and went into property development for ten years developing three medium size apartment projects on the Sunshine Coast and ten small townhouse unit projects in Toowoomba.
Craig shares four children with his wife and now spends his time between running International Legends of League events throughout Queensland, New South Wales, Northern Territory and Papua New Guinea all whilst running his own consultancy business.