Continuing our tradition of inviting a woman Judge to celebrate our anniversaries with us, this year Toronto Superior Court Judge The Honourable Jill R. Presser joins WiCCD on Jan 16 2025 6-7 pm EST (virtually).

We are looking forward to a lovely event as our previous celebrations have all been inspiring and warm.

To look back on those evenings, check out the blog entries here:

This year as before, we expect a full house and an engaged group of women with a candid exchange that will not be recorded.

Justice Jill R. Presser

Jill R. Presser is a judge of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Toronto. Before her appointment in July 2021, her law practice focused on appellate criminal defence and mental health for almost 25 years. She appeared as co-counsel on a number of interventions in the Supreme Court of Canada in cases dealing with important mental health issues. Justice Presser was an adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law from 2011 to 2016. She was a senior lawyer member of the Consent and Capacity Board of Ontario from 2006 to 2014, adjudicating civil mental health issues. Justice Presser has published and spoken extensively at legal and judicial education programs on criminal law, evidence, mental health law, artificial intelligence and the law, privacy and surveillance, and women in the law. She is co-author and co-editor of the Canadian Anthology on Mental Health and the Law (LexisNexis, 2024), co-author of A Guide to Mental Disorder Law in Canadian Criminal Justice (LexisNexis, 2020); as well as co-editor and contributing author to Litigating Artificial Intelligence (Emond, 2021). She co-authored a law reform report, AI Case Study: Probabilistic Genotyping DNA Tools in Canadian Criminal Courts (Law Commission of Ontario, 2021). Justice Presser has also written numerous articles and book chapters, including “Mom’s Rea: Motherhood, Criminal Defence, and Guilt” in Women in Criminal Justice (Durville Publications, 2018), and co-authored with Anita Szigeti,  ““…Even and Especially the Most Reviled and Despised”: Justice Marc Rosenberg’s Commitment to Access to Justice and Procedural Fairness for the Mentally Disordered” in To Ensure that Justice is Done (Thomson Reuters, 2017).