Biography - Jane Brewin Morley

Jane Brewin Morley is a lawyer, a facilitator, a mediator, an arbitrator, and a public policy advisor. Ms. Morley began her career in law with Pearlman & Lindholm of Victoria and continued with them as an associate until 1976, when she formed the law firm of Brewin, McCallum, Milne and Morley.

Ms. Brewin Morley has served in many professional and public positions: Governor of the Law Foundation of B.C. (1991 - 1999, Chair 1998 - 1999); public representative on the Counsel of the College of Physicians & Surgeons of British Columbia (1994 - 2001) and Chair of the Jericho Individual Compensation Panel, a redress program for victims of institutional sexual abuse at the Jericho School for the Deaf and Blind (1996 - 2001). In 1993, she was honoured with an appointment as Queen's Council (Q.C.).

Ms. Brewin Morley was also the Official Trustee of the Legal Services Society (2002 - 2003) and President of the BC Mediator Roster Society (2002 - 2006) and is currently a board member of the BC Dispute Resolution Practicum Society. From 2003 to 2006, she was the Child and Youth Officer for British Columbia. In 2007, Ms. Brewin Morley was appointed as an adjudicator for the Independent Assessment Program under the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement.

Ms. Brewin Morley holds a Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Law from Queen's University at Kingston.