Augusta Wallace (judge) Dame Augusta Wallace, DBE (11 October 1929 - 12 April 2008) was the first woman in New Zealand to be appointed as a judge to the District Court in 1976; she served for eighteen years. Augusta Wallace (née Dunlop) was educated in Howick School, Epsom Girls' Grammar School, and Auckland University where she graduated and was admitted to the bar in 1954. Augusta_Wallace_(judge)