The Hon. Alice Woolley (LLB 1994) appointed Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of Alberta

The Hon. Arif Virani, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, announced on Oct. 23 judicial appointments in the province of Alberta.

Faculty of Law graduate Justice Alice Woolley was appointed to the Court of King's Bench of Alberta in 2018. She received her BA from the University of Toronto and graduated with an LLB from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 1994, where she received both the Gold Medal and the Dean's Key. In 1995, she earned an LLM from Yale Law School. She was called to the Bar of Alberta in 1997.

The Honourable Alice Woolley, a Justice of the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta, is appointed a Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of Alberta in Calgary. 

At the time of her appointment to the Court of King's Bench of Alberta, Justice Woolley was a professor at the University of Calgary Faculty of Law where she became a nationally and internationally recognized scholar of lawyers' ethics and professional regulation, with publications considering a wide range of issues including the lawyer as advisor, lawyers' fiduciary obligations, the good character requirement, access to justice, regulation of civility, the independence of the Bar, and the theoretical foundations of the lawyer's role.

Justice Woolley served as Associate Dean (Academic) (2014-2016) and as Co-Chair of the Faculty's Curriculum Committee (2013-2014). From 2015 to 2018, she was President of the Canadian Association for Legal Ethics, and from 2016 to 2018, she was President of the International Association of Legal Ethics. Justice Woolley has twice received the Howard Tidswell Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence and also twice been named one of Canadian Lawyer's Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers. In 2016, she was named the City of Calgary Council's first Ethics Advisor.

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