B.C. judge promoted to associate chief justice for province’s Supreme Court

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has named Heather J. Holmes, to be associate chief justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia.

She replaces A.F. Cullen, who elected to become a supernumerary judge as of January.

Holmes graduated from the law faculty at the University of Toronto and began her legal work as a clerk in the B.C. Court of Appeal.

She became a Crown prosecutor in 1982, handling general prosecutions before focusing on commercial crime.

From 1991 to 1995, she worked in the federal Department of Justice in Ottawa, where she helped develop amendments to the Criminal Code, including in the areas of sexual assault, criminal procedure and jury selection.

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She was named to the B.C. Supreme Court in March 2001.

The Canadian Press