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Top 25 Women of Influence 2017: Palbinder K Shergill

 

 

Palbinder K Shergill

Justice to the Supreme Court of British Columbia

Palbinder Kaur Shergill started the year an accomplished woman. She was a trial lawyer with her own firm in Surrey. An advisory board member of the Sikh Feminist Research Institute. And she had spent over 25 years providing pro bono legal counsel to the World Sikh Organization (WSO) of Canada, her work lauded as “instrumental in helping shape human rights and religious accommodation law in Canada.” So said the federal government news release, announcing her appointment to the B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster in June. It made Palbinder the first female turbaned judge in Canada — and an inspiration to Sikh’s across the country.

 


 

Who else are we honouring? See the full Women of Influence Top 25 list for 2017.