sentences:  Regarding her career as a teacher, Jerram ; states that, "at the same time, I think I never really saw myself as teaching for the rest of my life" and with a previous history of advocacy, she soon thereafter commenced law studies at The University of Sydney.Following her completion of law studies, Jerram worked as a legal officer at the NSW Independent Teachers' Union from 1980 to 1987 and as a criminal duty solicitor and senior advocate at the NSW Legal Aid Commission from 1987 to 1994, up until her secondment to an industrial inquiry into prisoners and prison officers.In 1994, Jerram was appointed as a Magistrate; after one general year and one as a specialist Children's Magistrate of New South Wales, she undertook the Goulburn country circuit for the next two-and-a-half years.