Conference - Marion Buller

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Marion Buller is Cree and a member of the Mistawasis Nehiyawak First Nation in Saskatchewan. The first Indigenous woman to be appointed as a Provincial Court Judge in British Columbia, Ms. Buller established B.C.’s First Nations Court and helped build the foundation for that province’s first Indigenous Family Court. After presiding on the bench for 22 years, she was appointed Chief Commissioner for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Since the completion of the National Inquiry, Ms. Buller has returned to the practice of law, and is currently Chancellor of the University of Victoria. She has received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Thompson Rivers University, and was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2022.