Nominating Committee
Mandate
This Board committee will:
- identify, recruit and encourage candidates to stand for election or appointment to the Board, Committees, and Provincial Council;
- in consultation with the Board, Executive Director and Committee Chairs (as appropriate), identify anticipated gaps in skills, demographics and diversity of each body and provide information to the Executive Director;
- coordinate with the Executive Director as to membership-wide announcements and targeted member communications to seek candidates for appropriate positions;
- provide information to potential candidates about roles and responsibilities and, where appropriate, encourage application; and
- in undertaking its functions, have regard to and take measures to give effect to the CBABC’s commitment to ensuring that the diversity of the CBA’s membership is represented.
Lee L.M.G. Nevens (they/them)
Chair
Department of Justice Canada
Vancouver
BC
Pushor Mitchell LLP
Kelowna
BC
Jon Maurice Duncan
Member
Duncan and Associates
Prince George
BC
Kirsten Hume Scrimshaw
Member
Ally Workplace Law
North Vancouver
BC
J. Berry Hykin (she/her)
Member
Woodward & Company LLP
Victoria
BC
Benjamin D. Kingstone
Member
Swift Datoo LLP
Courtenay
BC
Matthew A.G. Somers
Member
Somers Poulin Hall
New Westminster
BC
Christopher W. Trudeau
Member
Chris Trudeau Law Corporation
Castlegar
BC
Kerry L. Simmons, K.C.
Staff Liaison
Canadian Bar Association - BC Branch
Vancouver
BC