Juanita Westmoreland-Traoré

The Honourable Juanita Westmoreland-Traoré is the first appointed Black judge in the history of Quebec. She also holds the distinction of being the first Black Dean of a law school (University of Windsor's Faculty of Law) in Canada’s history.

Dr. Westmoreland-Traoré was born in Verdun, Quebec, in 1942. After receiving her law degree from the Université de Montréal and a doctorate from the Université de Paris, she began practising law and has been doing so since 1970. She was appointed to the Quebec bench in 1999.