Nunavut has a new chief justice
Nunavut has a new chief justice, after its former top judge retired earlier this year.
Susan Cooper, a longtime Nunavut judge and lawyer, will now take on the job, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced in a news release Friday.
Outgoing Chief Justice Neil Sharkey retired because he turned 75 — the mandatory retirement age for judges.
Cooper was appointed to the Nunavut bench in 2009. Before that, she was an associate at Cooper and Johnson, a firm in Yellowknife, from 1988 to 1992.
She then practised as a sole practitioner in Yellowknife and Iqaluit and became a partner with Chandler and Cooper in 1998.
Her practice focused on civil, criminal, family, child protection, municipal and administrative law, among others.
