Rate My Professor Mark Fenlon

In his current role as Senior Prosecutor (Northern Region, Queensland) in the Statutory Compliance and Prosecutions team at the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator, Fenlon has also acted as Practice Manager (Queensland). His professional achievements include the 2007 Queensland Law Society President’s Award for Queensland Young Lawyer of the Year, Assistant Commissioner’s and Executive Directors’ citations for domestic violence work and prosecuting a major drug trafficking syndicate, and the 2024 James Cook University Sessional Teaching Award from the College of Business, Law and Governance. Fenlon was President of the Townsville District Law Association from 2018 to 2020, serves on the Queensland Law Society Wellbeing Working Group, and acts as the QLS representative to the Law Council of Australia’s Regional, Rural and Remote Lawyers Committee. He authors articles for QLS Proctor, such as “Vicarious trauma by proxy” (2023) examining psychological distress from graphic imagery, “How would she like it if it happened to her?” (2021) on social media vilification of practitioners, and reports on JCU Law Students’ Society Pride events including the inaugural Pride in Law (2024) and Bar None: Queer Voices in Law (2025). Fenlon delivered the “Law as a Service” seminar at JCU in 2023 and held leadership positions in JCI Mackay, earning awards like Most Outstanding Chapter President in Australia and Queensland.