Peter Cadden Heerey AM QC (16 February 1939 – 1 May 2021) was a judge of the Federal Court of Australia from 1990 to 2009. Heerey attended St Virgil's College and the University of Tasmania, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws (first class honours) degree. He practised as a solicitor in Hobart, before moving to Melbourne to become a barrister in 1967, and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1985. Heerey was appointed to the Federal Court of Australia in 1990. In 1992, he was a judge of the Supreme Court of Vanuatu. Heerey died on 1 May 2021 in Melbourne, aged 82.