Early legal career Following her completion of law studies, Jerram worked as a legal officer at the New South Wales Independent Teachers' Union from 1980 to 1987 and as a criminal
duty solicitor and senior advocate at the
New South Wales Legal Aid Commission from 1987 to 1994, up until her secondment to an industrial inquiry into prisoners and prison officers. In October 2006, she was re-appointed as a full-time New South Wales magistrate. and succeeded John Abernethy as the State Coroner of NSW. Commencing her (initially) 5-year contract and her tenure as State Coroner of New South Wales on 7 May 2007, Jerram became the first female State Coroner of New South Wales and was assisted by the Deputy State Coroner, His Honour Magistrate Paul A. MacMahon. Jerram retired in November 2013.
Notable Cases In 2008, Jerram presided over an inquest into the death of
Jacob Kovco. Kovco was a private in the Australian Army who was killed while deployed to Iraq in 2006. He was fatally wounded by a single shot to the head from his own Browning 9mm sidearm. A military inquiry found Private Kovco accidentally shot himself while mishandling his pistol. This conclusion was disputed by his family and on 2 April 2008, a jury inquest returned a similar verdict, finding that his death was "irresponsibly self-inflicted", and that when he pulled his gun's trigger he "disregarded the possible consequences of danger". ==Personal life==