Ontario Court of Justice adds 42 new justices of the peace

In Manitoba, Clouston was a private practitioner in family and estate law. She joined the Ontario bar in 2018 and the Manitoba bar in 2012. She received a JD from the University of Manitoba.

Diamond’s most recent position was executive director of legal and corporate services at the County of Perth. She has also been policy counsel with the Law Society of Ontario, a litigator, and a legal educator. She obtained an LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School.

Michael Gauthey has been a bilingual prosecutor and solicitor for the City of Toronto since 2013. In this role, he prosecuted offences under Ontario’s Provincial Offences Act, 1990, and conducted bilingual prosecutions and appeals.

Gauthey sat on various boards or committees, including at the Prosecutors’ Association of Ontario. He also served on the Ministry of the Attorney General’s French language services subcommittee of the Provincial Offences Act and the Jewish Family and Children’s Services’ programs, services, and outcomes committee.

Gauthey has mentored articling students and members of the Association of Francophone Lawyers of Ontario. He joined the Ontario bar in 2012 and earned his JD from the University of Ottawa.

Morgan-White has been in-house legal counsel for a Canadian retailer and a Crown corporation. She held part-time roles as director of the Algonquin Forestry Authority’s board and as a law professor in the University of Ottawa’s Common Law Section.

Morgan-White joined the bar in 2009. She has an LLM from York University, an LLB from the University of Ottawa, and a JD from Michigan State University.

More appointees

According to the provincial government’s bulletin, these are the other appointees and their recent roles:

1. Judy Naqi Anilniliak: executive director for Tungasuvvingat Inuit
2. Christopher Robert Beechey: acting traffic and marine manager with the Ontario Provincial Police
3. Robert Alexander Bell: detective constable in the Peel Regional Police Service’s impaired driving enforcement unit
4. Peter Gordon Watson Bennetto: director of enterprise projects at Heline Inc.
5. Desmond Berry: Indigenous liaison constable with the Thunder Bay Police Service
6. Jagdeep Singh Bhogal: police officer and community relations officer with the Toronto Police Service
7. Lisa Michelle Brooks: director of business services and corporate services with York Region
8. Tara Christine Brutzki: manager in biology at the Ministry of the Solicitor General’s Centre of Forensic Sciences
9. Robert Jeffrey Burd: paralegal
10. Simi Kaur Chahal: adjudicator with Workplace Safety Insurance and Appeals Tribunal
11. Bradley Addison Cook: records and communications inspector with the Halton Police Service
12. Brian Andrew Cooper: program manager at St. Joseph’s Healthcare
13. Ken Keyhan Derakhshan: staff sergeant with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
14. Jeremy Terence Doolan: staff sergeant and detachment manager with the Ontario Provincial Police
15. Theologos Paul Drakos: professor at the Patriarchal Toronto Orthodox Theological Academy
16. Aysun Ergin: regional director at the Ministry of the Solicitor General
17. Edward John Estoppey: prosecutor for the City of Mississauga
18. Philippe Jean Gratton: faculty member at the Canada School of Public Service
19. Gerald Michael Heaney: staff sergeant and officer in charge with the Toronto Police Service
20. Gordon Henderson: senior manager of prosecutions for the City of Toronto
21. Kerry Jean Hobden: fish health coordinator with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
22. Majid Juma: director of strategic operations for the Ministry of the Attorney General’s criminal law division
23. André Robert Leduc: detective and sergeant in the Ottawa Police Service’s forensic identification unit
24. Brent Timothy Lundy: director and board chairman of the Lake of the Woods District Hospital
25. Paolo Morrone: principal at the Toronto Catholic District School Board
26. Jason Murray: detective with the Waterloo Regional Police Service
27. Kieffer Harrison Norton: adjudicator with the Licence Appeal Tribunal
28. Robert John O’Quinn: staff sergeant at the York Regional Police’s Real Time Operations Centre
29. Neal Andrew Roberts: chief of the Middlesex-London Paramedic Service
30. Troy Stephen Rossignol: adjudicator for the Landlord and Tenant Board
31. Manjit Singh: teacher with the Toronto District School Board
32. Gary Sangha: person in charge of the York Regional Police’s special victims unit
33. Jesse Alan Soloway: communications operator at Ontario Provincial Police Provincial Communications Centre
34. Michelle Francis Swaerdens: professor at Niagara College
35. William Brett Todd: vice chairman at the Licence Appeal Tribunal
36. Brad James Traves: tribunal member with Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
37. Lorelei Lindell Van Belleghem: legal aid worker
38. Crystal Winchester: Indigenous community liaison officer

Ontario’s bulletin announced that the new appointees received assignments in the following locations:

• Brampton (5): Burd, Cook, Derakhshan, Gauthey, Morrone
• Dryden (1): Van Belleghem
• Haileybury (1): Hobden
• Hamilton (1): Swaerdens
• Kenora (2): Clouston, Lundy
• Kingston (2): Doolan, Todd
• Kitchener (3): Diamond, Ergin, Murray
• Newmarket (2): Bhogal, Chahal
• Oshawa (2): Heaney, Sangha
• Ottawa (6): Anilniliak, Beechey, Gratton, Leduc, Morgan-White, Traves
• Owen Sound (1): Bell
• Sault Ste. Marie (2): Bennetto, Brutzki
• St. Catharines (3): Estoppey, Roberts, Winchester
• Sudbury (1): Rossignol
• Thunder Bay (2): Berry, Soloway
• Toronto (7): Brooks, Drakos, Henderson, Juma, Norton, O'Quinn, Singh

Welland (1): Cooper