They held leadership roles at Legal Aid Ontario and Assessment Review Board, respectively
Doug Downey, Ontario’s attorney general, has announced the appointments of Kaitlyn D. McCabe and Carly M. Stringer as two new associate judges of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice as of Aug. 28.
Geoffrey B. Morawetz, the Superior Court’s chief justice, assigned McCabe to Windsor and Stringer to Sudbury, according to a bulletin from the provincial government.
Ontario’s bulletin provided more information on the recent appointees.
McCabe graduated from the University of Windsor Faculty of Law and joined the Ontario bar in 1996. She worked as a private practice lawyer at Wilson Walker Hochberg Slopen LLP and Renaud Campbell.
In 2003, she became a supervisory duty counsel in Windsor. In this position, she oversaw an office of eight staff members and 15 per diem counsel.
McCabe served as manager of legal services from 2008–15. She was responsible for administering and delivering all Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) duty counsel programs in Windsor, Chatham, and Sarnia. She maintained appearances before the Ontario Court of Justice and helped unrepresented clients as duty counsel.
She became director of LAO’s West District office in 2015 and acting LAO vice president in September 2024. In the latter role, she oversaw legal aid programming for criminal, immigration, and family law across Ontario.
McCabe has volunteered with the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC), which seeks to resolve family conflict via education and collaboration. She joined the AFCC board of directors in 2017 and later became co-president.
Her volunteer work has also encompassed community food drives, school councils, and the Terry Fox Run/Walk fundraiser.
Stringer graduated from the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law and joined the Ontario bar in 2011. She served as a judicial law clerk at the Court of Appeal for Ontario for a year.
She then worked as a litigation associate at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP. She became a senior associate lawyer at Evans, Bragagnolo & Sullivan LLP in 2014.
After three years, she opened Stringer Law, which she operated as a lawyer and workplace investigator in employment, commercial, and municipal law matters.
Stringer became a full-time adjudicator with Tribunals Ontario in 2021. She served the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario and the Assessment Review Board. At the latter, she recently became a vice chair.
As a volunteer with the Sudbury Colloquium, she has presented various legal topics to lawyers and helped new lawyers through the young lawyers mentoring session.
Stringer was chair of Northern College’s board of governors, director of Timmins and District Victim Services, and co-chair of the Timmins Refugee Sponsorship Committee.
