Brief Biographical Note of Justice Gloria J. Epstein

Justice of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, appointed October 12, 2007
Former Justice of the Superior Court of Justice (Ontario) - 1993 to 2007

• LL.B. University of Toronto, 1977; Called to the Bar of Ontario, 1979;
• Private practice focussed on general civil, administrative, commercial and family law;
• Participant in and organizer of various professional education seminars and past guest instructor at Bar Admission Course (Employment Law and Civil Procedure) and at Faculties of Law, University of Toronto and York University (Trial Practice, and Trial Advocacy);
• Former Director of the Ontario Superior Court Judges Association;
• Former Chair of Chief Justice's Media Committee;
• Co-chair of education at the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice;
• Member of Advisory Committee on Access to Courts for People with Disabilities;
• Co-founder, McMurtry Gardens of Justice;
• Conducted inquiry into Ontario's involvement in the lives of the Dionne Quintuplets;
• Executive of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Alumni Association (current secretary);
• Director of Canadian Women’s Foundation;
• 2007 recipient of University of Toronto Arbor Award.

Married to Seymour Epstein - blessed with three children, two step-children, three daughters-in-law and two granddaughters.