Beverley Schurr BA (Sydney) LLB (UNSW) served as a Magistrate in the Local Court of NSW for twenty years and is currently an Acting Magistrate. 

Before her appointment, Ms Schurr was a solicitor with Legal Aid NSW practising in all NSW criminal jurisdictions. She was also at times a research officer with the Criminal Law Review Division of the NSW Attorney General's Department, a member of the Criminal Law Committee of the NSW Law Society and the author of a guide to criminal appeals decisions published by the NSW Public Defenders Chambers. 

Ms Schurr has been the author of the Criminal Procedure (NSW) service since its launch in 1996.