High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Edward Reeves (born 2 January 1952) is an Australian politician, lawyer and judge. He was a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1983 to 1984, a prominent barrister in Darwin afterwards, the author of the controversial 1999 Reeves Report on Aboriginal land rights, and has been a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia since November 2007. He is the only former politician currently serving on the Federal Court, and the only former politician currently serving on an Australian appellate court.