Rosalie Abella
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The Honourable Rosalie Silberman Abella FRSC |
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| Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada | |
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Assumed office October 4, 2004 |
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| Nominated by | Paul Martin |
| Preceded by | Frank Iacobucci / Louise Arbour |
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July 1, 1946 Stuttgart, Germany |
| Spouse(s) | Irving Abella |
Rosalie Silberman Abella, FRSC (born July 1, 1946) is a Canadian jurist. She was appointed in 2004 to the Supreme Court of Canada, becoming the first Jewish woman to sit on the Canadian Supreme Court bench.
Rosalie Silberman Abella was born in a displaced persons camp in Stuttgart, Germany, where her father, a lawyer, was defence counsel for displaced persons in the Allied Zone of Southwest Germany. She moved to Canada with her family in 1950. She attended Oakwood Collegiate Institute in Toronto, and then the University of Toronto, where she obtained a B.A. in 1967 and an LL.B in 1970.
Abella was called to the Ontario bar in 1972. She practised civil and family law until 1976, when at the age of 29 she was appointed to the Ontario Family Court (now part of the Ontario Court of Justice), becoming both the youngest and first pregnant judge in Canadian history. She was appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeal in 1992. She has acted as chair of the Ontario Labour Relations Board, the Ontario Study into Access to Legal Services by the Disabled and the Ontario Law Reform Commission, and as a member of the Ontario Human Rights Commission and of the judicial inquiry into the Donald Marshall, Jr. case. She is considered one of Canada's foremost experts on human rights law, and has taught at McGill Law School in Montreal.
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