Judging Bertha Wilson

the long version

"Madame Justice Bertha Wilson, the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, is an enormously influential and controversial figure in Canadian legal and political history. This biography draws on interviews with Madame Justice Wilson and her husband John, as well as with her friends, relatives, and colleagues, conducted under the auspices of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. The biography traces Wilson's story from her birth in Scotland in 1923 to the present. Wilson's contributions to the areas of human rights law and equality jurisprudence are many and well known. Lesser known are her early days in Scotland and her work as a minister's wife, her post-judicial work on gender equality for the Canadian Bar Association and her contributions to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples."--Jacket.