From the Department of Justice News Release: external link
Justice Kerry Lee McVey was raised in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. After receiving the Lieutenant Governor’s Medal and Governor General’s Medal for academic excellence and community involvement, she obtained a Bachelor of Science in mathematics and computer science from Acadia University in 1999. After graduating, she moved to Ottawa, Ontario, where she began a career in software design. In 2007, just a few short months after welcoming her first child, she began law school at the University of Ottawa. While raising a young family, she worked as a criminal law tutor and research assistant and graduated as the silver medalist in 2010.
After obtaining her Bachelor of Laws, Justice McVey clerked for the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (East Region) and then the Honourable Justice Morris J. Fish at the Supreme Court of Canada. She was called to the Ontario bar in 2011 and became an Assistant Crown Attorney in Ottawa. In 2019, she joined the Office of the Director of Crown Operations as a member of the provincial internet child exploitation team. Justice McVey taught numerous courses at the Canadian Police College on internet child exploitation as well as search and seizure and served as a co-director for the Cybercrime crown summer school program. In 2022, she became the Crown Attorney for Lanark County and Smiths Falls.
Congratulations to Justice McVey on this appointment!