Timaru lawyer Tim Gresson has been made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to law and sport.

Mr Gresson, who was admitted in March 1967, is a Consultant with Gresson Dorman & Co. He was Crown Solicitor in the Timaru district for 33 years and relinquished his warrant in 2013.

A New Zealand Rugby Board member between 1991 and 2002, he also chaired the International Rugby Board Judicial Panel and refereed rugby at local and national levels.