Tag: Guest Speakers

The Honourable Madam Justice Miriam Maisonville

Henry Hudson Elementary was very fortunate to host The Honourable Madam Justice Miriam Maisonville as a distinguished guest speaker today, November 18, 2015. * Madame Justice Maisonville spoke to our school about the Rule of Law, the role of Judges in society, what it is like to be a Judge, how the Courts are open to anyone to come and watch and more. She had been given a list of questions in advance and responded to those as well as further questions asked by the children on the day of the presentation. It was a tremendous honour and a rare treat to have such an inspiring speaker, a Justice of the Supreme Court of B.C. attend at Hudson.
[For more information, please contact Victoria S., our parent volunteer who heads up the distinguished guest speaker program, now in its 5th year.]
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The Honourable Madam Justice Miriam Maisonville -Brief Biography *
Appointed to Supreme Court March, 2010
The Honourable Miriam A. Maisonville completed her undergraduate studies in Political Science in 1982 and received a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the University of British Columbia in 1985. She was called to the British Columbia Bar in 1986 and to the Alberta Bar in 1991. Prior to her appointment, Madam Justice Maisonville had been Crown Counsel with the Ministry of Attorney General since 1994.
Madam Justice Maisonville is a past member of the Judicial Council for the Provincial Court of British Columbia, as well as member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Bar Association. She served as President of the Canadian Bar Association’s B.C. Branch (2008-2009), the Conférence des juristes d’expression française de common law (2006-2008) and the Association des juristes d’expression française in British Columbia (2008-2009). She was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2009.
She also sits in the Yukon having been appointed as a Deputy Judge to the Supreme Court of the Yukon in 2011.