Ted Mullighan  Edward Picton "Ted" Mullighan, QC (25 March 1939 – 16 September 2011) was an Australian judge, who was Commissioner of the Children in State Care Commission of Inquiry appointed by the Government of South Australia. Mullighan had practised law from 1962, was made Queen's Counsel in 1978, and was appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia from 1989. He was a member of the Commonwealth Legal Aid Review Committee, President of the Law Society of South Australia, and co-chair of Reconciliation SA. Mullighan died in Adelaide, aged 72.