A Thunder Bay lawyer has been appointed to the bench.
Christopher Arnone has been appointed Judge of the Superior Court of Justice in Thunder Bay.
Arnone was a partner at the law firm Atwood Labine.
He has also taught at Bora Laskin Law School and in continuing legal education courses.
He replaces Justice Bruce Fitzpatrick, who became a supernumerary judge this past July, allowing him to take on a reduced workload.
A new judge has been appointed to the provincial court.
Renée Roy will join the bench in Moncton, Justice Minister Robert McKee announced Friday.
“Ensuring access to an impartial and effect justice system for the people of New Brunswick is an essential responsibility of government,” McKee said in a statement.
“Renée Roy is highly qualified and has demonstrated a strong commitment to justice throughout her career.”
Roy graduated from St. Thomas University in 2005 with a bachelor of arts in criminology and psychology, before getting her law degree from the Université de Moncton in 2010.
She has experience in private practice, though her most recent experience has been as a Crown prosecutor in the specialized prosecutions unit.
Her appointment brings the number of full-time provincial court judges to 28, including the chief judge and associate chief judge.
There is also one supernumerary judge and 10 per diem judges.
A lawyer known to the legal community in the Kenora and Fort Frances areas has been appointed as a judge to the Ontario Court of Justice.
Joanne Michelle Marie Clouston will work out of the Kenora Courthouse, beginning on January 29th.
She began her legal career in Manitoba as an associate lawyer with a former Winnipeg law office.
She then joined a firm in Thompson, Manitoba, as child protection agency counsel for Child and Family Services and Michif Child and Family Services in Thompson.
In 2018, Clouston moved to northwestern Ontario where she first worked at the Crown Attorney’s Office in Fort Frances before joining the Kenora-Rainy River District Child and Family Services as its senior legal counsel.
She was appointed as a Justice of the Peace in Kenora last May.
She will continue to work out of the Kenora court in her new role.