Gerald Fitzgibbon (8 October 1866 – 6 December 1942) was an Irish judge who served on the Supreme Court from 1924 to 1938. He was also elected for the Dublin University constituency at the 1921 and 1922 Irish elections. Following the 1921 elections, he sat in the House of Commons of Southern Ireland rather than the 2nd Dáil; after the 1922 election, he served in the 3rd Dáil.
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Early life and education
Fitzgibbon was born in Dublin in 1866, into an Anglican family. He was the eldest son of Gerald Fitzgibbon and Margaret Anne Fitzgerald. He was educated at Clifton College, Bristol, and Trinity College Dublin, where he took his degree of Bachelor of Arts. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1887, practised on the Munster Circuit, became a King's Counsel in 1908, and a Bencher of the King's Inns in 1912.
Fitzgibbon came from a noted legal family, his grandfather, Gerald Fitzgibbon, was a Queen's Counsel and Master in Chancery and his father, also Gerald Fitzgibbon, was a Lord Justice of the pre-independence Irish Court of Appeal: along with Christopher Palles and Hugh Holmes, the second Gerald Fitzgibbon was credited with making the Court of Appeal a tribunal whose judgements are still quoted with respect today. Mr. Justice Fitzgibbon through his mother was the grandson of Francis Alexander FitzGerald, Baron of the Court of Exchequer.