Curriculum Vitae

2013 - 2024

Justice of the Ontario Court of Appeal

Bilingual panel

Chair of Family Rules Committee

1996 - 2013

Judge of the Superior Court on Ontario:

• 1996-2000 Ontario Court General Division (as the Superior Court was then called);

• 2001 Team Leader Family Law Toronto

• 2001-2005 appointed Senior Justice of the Family Court and Chair of the Family Rules Committee

• Prize for Excellence in Family Law (Canadian Bar Association)

• 2005 -2013 Long criminal trials

1979 - 1996

• Associate then partner Chappell Bushell Stewart – Toronto

• President: Medico-Legal Society of Toronto

• President: Ontario Expropriation Association

• Director: The Advocates’ Society

• Vice-Chair, Joint Committee, on Court Reform*

• Chair, Case Management Committee

• Chair, Toronto Bench Bar Committee (Family)**

* An umbrella group of lawyers’ organizations integrated with the Civil Justice Review. As a result of the first report, the case management committee was formed.

** An active committee of judges, lawyers and administrators who met weekly in order to propose family law rules to the government. The rules as recommended were passed for Toronto and became the model for the province-wide rules.