sentences:  Owen retired in 2010 after 19 years on the bench of the Supreme Court of Western Australia.A Roman Catholic, Justice Owen is the inaugural Chancellor of the University of Notre Dame Australia who served from 1989 until 2008.In 2014 he was appointed by the Roman Catholic Australian Catholic Bishops Conference to chair The Truth Justice and Healing Council as the Church's official coordinating agency with the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.