The Honourable Justice Debbie Ong

Justice Debbie Ong was appointed a Judge of the Appellate Division on 1 November 2022. She was appointed Judicial Commissioner in 2014 and Supreme Court Judge on 30 September 2017. She was concurrently appointed Presiding Judge of the Family Justice Courts from October 2017 to September 2023.

Justice Ong earned her Bachelor of Laws from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1989 and Master of Laws at the University of Cambridge in 1991. She was admitted as an advocate and solicitor in Singapore in 1990.

Her legal career began as an academic at NUS’s Faculty of Law in 1989, specialising in family law. While teaching, she also assisted the Family Court as a court mediator and the Supreme Court as amicus curiae. She was a member to various boards and councils, such as the Review Board constituted under the Children and Young Persons Act. Justice Ong currently co-chairs the SAL's Learning and Professional Development Committee.