Justice Andrea L. Ormiston obtained an undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto in 1997, a Master’s in English Literature from Queen’s University in 1998, and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Ottawa in 2002. She was admitted to the Ontario Bar in 2003 and to the British Columbia Bar in 2005.
Justice Ormiston was appointed to the Provincial Court of British Columbia in 2017. Her legal career began in Barrie Ontario, but it took root and flourished practising criminal law in the Fraser Valley where she worked as legal counsel and volunteered for educational and community-oriented projects relating to criminal law. She served as Crown counsel both in Ontario and in British Columbia with a focus on criminal law. Between September 2003 and March 2004, she interned at the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, Native Law Centre of Canada and the University of Vienna, where she concentrated on the international rights of Indigenous peoples. She volunteered with the Chilliwack Public Safety Committee.
Congratulations to Justice Ormiston on this appointment!
See the News Release from the Department of Justice Canada for more information.