- Rosalie Abella
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name = Rosalie Silberman Abella
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office = Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
termstart =August 30 2004
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nominator =Paul Martin
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predecessor =Frank Iacobucci /Louise Arbour
successor = Incumbent
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birthdate = birth date and age|1946|7|1
birthplace =Stuttgart ,Germany
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spouse =Rosalie Silberman Abella, FRSC (born
July 1 ,1946 ) is a Canadian jurist. She was appointed in 2004 to theSupreme Court of Canada , becoming the firstJewish woman and the sixth woman to sit on the Canadian Supreme Court bench.Abella was born in a
displaced person s camp inStuttgart, Germany , and moved to Canada with her family in 1950. She graduated from theUniversity of Toronto Law School in 1970, and practised civil and family law litigation until 1976, when she was appointed to the Ontario Family Court, becoming the youngest and first pregnant judge in Canadian history. [cite web| title =The newest justices| publisher =CBC News | date =2006-02-24 | url =http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/supremecourt/nominees.html| accessdate =2007-10-08 ] She was then appointed to theOntario Court of Appeal in 1992.Abella, who is considered one of Canada's foremost experts in
human rights law, has also been a chair of theOntario Labour Relations Board and theOntario Law Reform Commission , and a board member of theOntario Human Rights Commission . She was also a member of the judicial inquiry on theDonald Marshall case. She chaired the Ontario Study into Access to Legal Services by the Disabled.Abella was the sole commissioner of the 1984 federal Royal Commission on Equality in Employment, in which she coined the term
employment equity , a strategy for reducing barriers in employment faced by women, non-whites, people with disabilities, andAboriginal peoples in Canada .While also chair of the
Law Reform Commission , she taught law atMcGill University in Montreal.Abella has also been active in Canadian cultural life. She has been a judge of the
Giller Prize , and is a graduate of classical piano from the Royal Conservatory of Music.She is married to Canadian historian
Irving Abella and has two sons, lawyers Jacob and Zachary. She is the recipient of 23honorary degree s and is a fellow of theRoyal Society of Canada .See also
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Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Abella References
External links
* [http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/aboutcourt/judges/Abella/index_e.asp Madam Justice Rosalie Abella]
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