By Josh Hall (Twitter: @Vancan19)

Red Deer lawyer named to Court of Queen’s Bench in Edmonton

Apr 12, 2018 | 3:09 PM

A Red Deer resident is Alberta’s newest judge of the Court of Queen’s Bench in Edmonton.

Gaylene Bobb, a partner at Chapman Riebeek LLP in Red Deer is replacing Madam Justice R. Khullar effective March 12.

The announcement came down Thursday from The Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada.

Bobb graduated from the U of A’s Faculty of Law in 1998 and was admitted to the Alberta bar in 1999. She lived in Edmonton until moving to Red Deer around 2009.

Bobb’s parents emigrated from Trinidad and Tobago.

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In 2003, she joined the Association of Collaborative Lawyers of Central Alberta, where she was secretary from 2008 to 2011.

She has also served on the board of Loaves and Fishes, was a member of the Red Deer Legal Aid Committeee, and received a Legal Aid Certificate of Recognition in 2010. She also spent several years as a volunteer lawyer with the Central Alberta Community Legal Clinic and most recently served on the boards of the Central Alberta Women’s Outreach Society and the Suicide Prevention Society of Red Deer.

The Government of Canada has committed to promoting access to justice for all Canadians. and is proposing $77.2 million over four years to support the expansion of unified family courts, beginning in 2019-2020. This investment in the family justice system will create 39 new judicial positions in Alberta, Ontario, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador.