What is William Deane?
{{Infobox officeholder | honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable]] |name= Sir William Deane |honorific-suffix = | image = William Deane cropped.jpg | imagesize = | order=[[List of Governors-General of Australia|22nd]] [[Governor-General of Australia]] |monarch=[[Elizabeth II]] |primeminister= [[Paul Keating]] <br/>[[John Howard]] |term_start=16 February 1996 |term_end=29 June 2001 |predecessor=[[Bill Hayden]] |successor=[[Peter Hollingworth]] |office2 = [[List of Justices of the High Court of Australia|Justice of the High Court of Australia]] |nominator2 = [[Malcolm Fraser]] |term_start2 = 25 June 1982 |term_end2 = 11 November 1995 |predecessor2 = [[Ninian Stephen]] |successor2 = [[Michael Kirby (judge)|Michael Kirby]] |birth_date= {{birth date and age|df=yes|1931|01|04}} |birth_place= [[Melbourne]], Victoria |death_date= |death_place= |spouse= Helen Russell |children =2 |alma_mater= [[University of Sydney]] |profession=[[Barrister]]<br/>[[Judge]] }} '''Sir William Patrick Deane''' (born 4 January 1931) is an Australian lawyer and judge. He served as the [[List of Governors-General of Australia|22nd]] [[Governor-General of Australia]], in office from 1996 to 2001.<ref>{{cite web |title=2001 Sir William Deane AC KBE |url=http://sydneypeacefoundation.org.au/peace-prize-recipients/2001-sir-william-deane-ac-kbe/ |website=sydneypeacefoundation.org. |publisher=Sydney Peace Foundation |access-date=31 December 2014 |date=2001}}</ref> He was appointed to the [[Supreme Court of New South Wales]] in 1977, and later that year was also appointed to the [[Federal Court of Australia]]. He was a Justice of the [[High Court of Australia]] from 1982 to 1995. Deane had a low profile during his five-year term, having no major constitutional issues, but did become notice by the global scale by [[List of people who have opened the Olympic Games|officially opening]] the [[2000 Summer Olympics]].<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/am/stories/s65677.htm PM agrees to allow GG to open the Olympics], Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 11 Novembe