About the author

Born in Avondale, Newfoundland, Marie Corbett is a woman’s rights advocate in the areas of
family law, environmental law, pension law, and sexual assault. Marie was the first woman
president of the Canadian Environmental Law Association, chair of the first family law
conference in Canada, and member of the first Ontario Status of Women Council. She founded
and was the first woman president of the Canadian Chapter of the International Association of
Women Judges. After her retirement from the bench, she wrote the first memoir by a Canadian
woman judge, January : A Woman Judge’s Season of Disillusion.