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Career Path for Judge

April 2, 2013 permalink

A Canada Court Watch researcher has turned up a puff piece on judge Mary Jo Nolan. It gives her experience before her appointment to the court in 2005. There is not enough to reconstruct the dates, here are her employers and job assignments:

  • period in private practice
  • Ministry of Community and Social Services working on children’s Legislation
  • Courts Administration in the Attorney General’s Department
  • Regional Counsel for the Southwest Region in the office of the Public Guardian and Trustee
  • Case Management Master in Windsor
  • Children’s Aid Society in Toronto
  • Children’s Aid Society Hamilton
  • Children’s Aid Society Windsor

Her experience leaves her well qualified to see cases from the ministry and CAS point of view.

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Justice Mary Jo Nolan ’81 To Receive Clark Award for University and Community Service

Justice Mary Jo Nolan ’81 will be honoured as a recipient of the 2010 Clark Awards at a dinner to be held on May 25th in the Ambassador Auditorium, in the CAW Student Centre.

Mary Jo was called to the Bar in 1983 and after a period in private practice took up a position in the Ministry of Community and Social Services working on children’s Legislation. In 1990, she moved to Courts Administration in the Attorney General’s Department. In 1995, Mary Jo was appointed Regional Counsel for the Southwest Region in the office of the Public Guardian and Trustee and, in 1997, she was appointed Case Management Master in Windsor. Mary Jo was appointed as a Justice of the Superior Court for Ontario on the 14th of April 2005.

The Clark Awards have been presented annually since 1994. Named in honour of the late Charles J. Clark Sr., Q.C., former Chancellor of the University of Windsor, the award recognizes outstanding personal service of both alumni volunteers and friends of the university who have made significant commitments in time, energy, and expertise by serving on UWindsor boards, committees or campaigns; or who have worked extensively to increase the profile and reputation of the university. The Clark Awards for outstanding University and community service are the University’s highest honour.

Justice Mary Jo Nolan is a fitting recipient of this honour! Mary Jo has shown devotion and dedication to the University of Windsor and its Faculty of Law. She taught as a Sessional Instructor in both Civil Procedure and Civil Trial Advocacy from 1999 until her appointment to the Court in 2005. In addition, Mary Jo has been a leader among the Windsor Law Alumni. She was one of a group of local alumni who instituted annual dinners for alumni and friends here in Windsor. Mary Jo served as the Alumni Representative on the Dean of Law Search Committee in 1999-2000 and, once again, in 2009-2010. Mary Jo is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Canadian and American Dual J.D. Program.

Tickets for the May 25 dinner are $75. For tickets or more information, please contact special events manager Mary-Ann Rennie at 519-973-7059, e-mail mrennie@uwindsor.ca. Also being honoured this year are alumni Eddi Chittaro (BA 1955, MA 1958), Martin Komsa (BComm 1976), and Roger Thibert (BA 1951, D.Sc. 2004). Biographical sketches of each of this year's recipients will be published in a future edition of DailyNews.

Congratulations Mary Jo!


The following article is reproduced from the Daily News, April 28, 2010.

Superior Court Justice to receive Clark Award

Mary Jo Nolan
Mary Jo Nolan

The Honourable Madam Justice Mary Jo Nolan is among those who will be honoured with the Clark Award at a dinner on Tuesday, May 25.

An alumna of Windsor Law, Madam Justice Nolan (LLB 1981) has served as an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Law teaching civil procedure and civil trial advocacy and is a volunteer judge at its annual student trials, for the student moots, and for practice rounds for mooting competitions.

She is a member of the Advisory Board for the Dual JD Program, a joint program offered with University of Detroit Mercy Law School, and participates in the faculty’s job shadowing program as well.

Prior to her 2005 appointment to the Superior Court of Justice for Ontario, she was the case management master, served with the Ministry of the Attorney General, Courts Administration, and with Children’s Aid Societies in Toronto, Hamilton and Windsor, and with the Ministry of Community and Social Services.

Fellow grads Eddi Chittaro (BA 1955, MA 1958), Martin Komsa (BComm 1976), and Roger Thibert (BA 1951, D.Sc. 2004) will join Nolan as recipients of the university's highest honour on Tuesday, May 25, at 6:30 p.m. in the Ambassador Auditorium, on the second floor of the CAW Student Centre.

Clark Awards have been presented annually since 1994. Named in honour of the late Charles J. Clark Sr., Q.C., former Chancellor of the University of Windsor, the award recognizes outstanding personal service of both alumni volunteers and friends of the university who have made significant commitments in time, energy, and expertise by serving on UWindsor boards, committees or campaigns; or who have worked extensively to increase the profile and reputation of the university.

Tickets for the dinner are $75. For tickets or more information, please contact special events manager Mary-Ann Rennie at 519-973-7059, e-mail mrennie@uwindsor.ca.


The following article is reproduced from the Daily News, May 27, 2010.

Alan Wildeman, Anna Clark, Martin Komsa, Roger Thibert, Eddi Chittaro and Mary Jo Nolan
University of Windsor President Alan Wildeman and Anna Clark, widow of the late chancellor Charles Clark, congratulate the 2010 recipients of the Clark award (from left) Martin Komsa, Roger Thibert, Eddi Chittaro, and Justice Mary Jo Nolan.

Source: University of Windsor

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