The Board of Governors, comprised of representatives of the founding partners and at-large members, determines policy for the LCO and approves projects, discussion papers and reports, among other responsibilities. Governors serve for three years.
Current members of the Board of Governors
Raj Anand (Chair)
Raj joined the LCO Board of Governors in 2014 and was appointed Chair effective April 16, 2020. He is a partner with WeirFoulds LLP who acts as a mediator, arbitrator or counsel in civil, administrative and regulatory litigation. He is a former Bencher of the Law Society of Ontario and current adjudicator and adjunct Law Professor in professional ethics and administrative law. Raj has worked with the Law Reform Commissions of Ontario and Canada.
Previous Work Experience:
Neha Chugh
Neha Chugh joined the LCO Board of Governors in January 2021 and is the appointee of the Law Foundation of Ontario.
Neha graduated from the University of Waterloo with honours degrees in Sociology and Social Work, a Masters of Science from the University of Guelph in Planning, and a juris doctorate from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. Neha is currently working on a PhD from Concordia University under the supervision of Dr. Martin French focusing on problem solving courts, therapeutic justice, and access to justice.
Following law school and her articles with the Honourable Justice David Berg and defence lawyer Gerald Logan, she joined Dotsikas Hawtin in Ottawa where she worked for two years before setting up Chugh Law Professional Corporation in Cornwall. Neha’s focus is primarily on conducting effective trials and managing fair resolutions, with a specific focus on youth and adult mental health, litigation, and research. She has conducted a wide range of judge-alone and jury trials including break and enters, sexual assaults, assaults, mischiefs, drinking and driving, and cases in front of various tribunals in Ontario.
Neha also serves as the prosecutor in the Akwesasne Court, assists with provincial offences prosecutions with the City of Cornwall, and is an instructor at Iohahi:io Akwesasne Education & Training Institute. Neha serves as the chair of the board of the Centre York Centre supervised access facility in Cornwall, on the community editorial board of the Cornwall Standard Freeholder, and on the board of directors of CUREA/CURET – an organization founded to address systemic racism in local institutions. In her spare time, Neha can be found playing board games with her kids or taking walks with her mom squad.
Trevor Farrow
Dean Trevor Farrow joined the LCO Board of Governors in September 2023 and is the appointee of Osgoode Hall Law School.
Trevor C.W. Farrow, AB (Princeton), BA/MA (Oxford), LLB (Dalhousie), LLM (Harvard), PhD (Alberta), is the Dean and a Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. He is the Chair of the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice and was the founding Academic Director of the Winkler Institute for Dispute Resolution and former Director of the York Centre for Public Policy and Law. Professor Farrow is internationally recognized as a leading scholar on access to justice, legal process and the profession. His scholarship is widely published in Canada and internationally. He has taught and lectured at universities across Canada and around the world. Professor Farrow has received teaching awards from Harvard University and Osgoode Hall Law School. Professor Farrow was formerly a litigation lawyer in Toronto.
Elizabeth Grace
Elizabeth joined the LCO Board of Governors as a member-at-large in June 2018. She is a partner of Lerners LLP and based in its Toronto office, where she practices civil litigation and administrative law.
- Partner, Lerners LLP (2001 to present)
- Associate lawyer, Lerners LLP (1995-2001)
- Clerk to former Chief Justice of Canada, Antonio Lamer, Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa (1993-1994)
- Summer student, Advocacy Resource Centre for the Handicapped (ARCH), Toronto (1993); Attorney General for Ontario, Constitutional Division, Toronto (1992); Blake, Cassels & Graydon, Toronto (1991)
Achievements
- Selected by her peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in Canada for Personal Injury Litigation (2016-2018)
- Panellist on #AfterMeToo Civil Roundtable, Globe and Mail, December 2017
- Plenary Panellist – “More Help and Better Supports for Survivors in the Community”, It’s Never Okay Summit on Sexual Violence and Harassment, Toronto, November 2015
- Co-Presenter of “Returning Ontario to the Forefront of the Effort to Eradicate Sexual Violence and Harassment” submission to Select Committee on Sexual Violence and Harassment, Legislative Assembly of Ontario, First Session, 41st Parliament, Official Report of Debates (Hansard), No. SV-15 (13 May 2015)
- Recognized as one of Canada’s Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers for her commitment to advocating on behalf of victims of sexual abuse, Canadian Lawyer Magazine, 2014
- Recipient of the Women’s Law Association of Ontario President’s Award, June 2014
- Recipient of Lexpert Zenith Award for Leading Women Lawyers, 2013
- Member of working group that drafted Guide for the Provision of Legal Services in Cases Involving Claims of Sexual Abuse, approved by the Equity and Aboriginal Issues Committee of the Law Society of Ontario and adopted by Convocation on January 26, 2012.
- Member of Ontario Bar Association’s Working Group on McMurtry Victim Compensation Review, representing OBA’s Feminist Legal Analysis (FLAC) Section, 2008
- Speaker at Law Society of Ontario’s “Special Lectures 2005: The Modern Law of Damages”, Toronto, April 20-21, 2005
- Co-author, Civil Liability for Sexual Abuse and Violence in Canada (Butterworths, 2000)
- Member and on Board of Directors, National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL), (1995 to 2000)
Education
- L.L.B., Osgoode Hall Law School, York University (1993)
- M.Phil., University of Sussex, England (1989)
- B.A. (Honours), Queen’s University (1987)
Called to Ontario Bar
- 1995
Jula Hughes
Jula Hughes joined the Board of Governors in 2020 as the representative for the Law Deans of Ontario. She is the dean of the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law at Lakehead University.
Previous Work Experience
- Professor of Law, University of New Brunswick (2006-2019)
- Lawyer, Caroline Engelmann Gottheil Ottawa (1999-2006)
- Law Clerk, Supreme Court of Canada (1999-2000)
Achievements
- University Research Scholar, University of New Brunswick 2018
- Principal Investigator, “Looking Out For Each Other” project in partnership with the New Brunswick Aboriginal Peoples Council
- Award for Teaching Excellence, Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick 2016
- CAUT Distinguished Service Award 2010
- Published numerous articles on judicial ethics, comparative constitutional law and Indigenous settler relations
Education
- LL. B., University of Ottawa, Common Law Section 1999
- Ph. D. Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany 1996
- M.A. Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen 1990
Called to Ontario Bar
- 2000
Randall Kahgee
Randall Kahgee joined the LCO Board of Governors as a member-at-large in January 2021. He is Senior Counsel with Olthuis Kleer Townshend LLP and specializes in indigenous rights law, with an emphasis on community-based processes and government-to-government negotiations
Shalini Konanur
Shalini Konanur joined the LCO Board of Governors in January 2021 and is the appointee of the Law Society of Ontario.
Jane Mallen
Jane Mallen joined the LCO Board of Governors in September 2020 and is the appointee of the Ministry of the Attorney General. She is currently the Assistant Deputy Attorney General of the Policy Division at the Ministry of the Attorney General.
Prior to assuming the ADAG role in January 2020, Jane was Executive Advisor and Chief Legal Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General. Prior to joining the Deputy’s office, Jane worked for many years in MAG’s Civil Law Division. During this time, she served in a number of roles, including as Portfolio Director for the “Indigenous, Lands and Resources” legal services portfolio, Legal Director at the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and Deputy Director roles at the Ministry of Labour and Crown Law Office – Civil. Jane started her legal career as counsel at the Ministry of Labour providing advice primarily in the areas of employment, workplace safety and insurance and administrative law. Jane completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Western Ontario and her law degree at the University of British Columbia. She was called to the Bar in 1998.
The Honourable Bradley W. Miller
The Honourable Bradley W. Miller joined the LCO Board of Governors in January 2024 and is the judicial appointee.
Justice Miller was appointed to the Court of Appeal for Ontario in 2015. Prior to his initial appointment to the Superior Court of Justice, he was a professor of constitutional law at the University of Western Ontario. He held appointments at Princeton University as a visiting professor in the Department of Philosophy and a visiting fellow in the Department of Politics. He was also a visiting fellow in the Department of Law at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.
He was called to the bars of Ontario and British Columbia and practiced commercial and constitutional litigation in Toronto.
Justice Miller holds a doctoral degree in law from the University of Oxford and an LL.M. (magna cum laude) from the University of Edinburgh, in addition to degrees in law and commerce from the University of British Columbia. He has published numerous scholarly articles on judicial reasoning and constitutional interpretation, and is an author of Legislated Rights: Securing Human Rights through Legislation: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Michael Tamblyn
Michael Tamblyn joined the Board of Governors as a member-at-large, as of September 1, 2018. He is the President and Chief Executive Officer at Rakuten Kobo.
Past Members
Mark L. Berlin (2012 — 2018)
Gwen Boniface (2011 — 2014)
Paul Boniferro (2018)
Christopher D. Bredt (2008 — 2014)
Camille Cameron (2014 — 2015)
Linda Cardinal (2018 — 2020)
Mary Condon (2018 — 2023)
Nathalie Des Rosiers (2009 — 2013)
Adam Dodek (2011 — 2014)
Bruce Elman (2012 — 2019)
The Honourable J. Michal Fairburn (2018 — 2020)
Neil Finkelstein (2007 — 2008)
William Flanagan (2009)
Irwin Glasberg (2017 — 2020)
The Honourable Stephen T. Goudge (2009 — 2021)
Neena Gupta (2007 — 2012)
Marie Henein (2007 — 2009)
Ian Holloway (2009 — 2012)
The Honourable Frank Iacobucci (2007 — 2012)
The Honourable Russell Juriansz (2008 — 2009)
The Honourable Harry S. LaForme (2014 – 2018)
Mark Leach (2012)
Yves LeBouthillier (2007 — 2008)
Jinyan Li (2009 — 2010)
The Honourable James MacPherson (2007 — 2008)
Patrick J. Monahan (2012 — 2017)
Sonia Ouellet (2013 — 2021)
Maria Páez Victor (2012 — 2018)
Genevieve Painchaud (2020 — 2023)
Andrew Pinto (2012 — 2020)
The Honourable Paul S. Rouleau (2020 — 2023)
Murray D. Segal (2007 — 2012)
Lorne Sossin (2010 — 2018)
Christopher Waters (2016 — 2020)
Board Chairs
Patrick J. Monahan, 2007 — 2009
Larry Banack, 2009 — 2012
Bruce Elman, 2012 — 2018
Andrew Pinto, 2018 — 2020
Raj Anand, 2020 — Present