The Honourable Marion Boyd

The Honourable Marion Boyd served as an MPP for from 1990 to 1995. A member of the Executive Council throughout the government, Marion was Minister of Education (1990-1991), Minister of Community and Social Services (1991-1993) and the first woman and non-lawyer Attorney General (1993-1995); from 1991 to 1995, she undertook the added responsibility of Minister Responsible for Women’s Issues. From 1995 -1999 Marion was the critic for justice, health and women’s issues.

Prior to her election, Marion was the Executive Director of the London Battered Women’s Advocacy Clinic from 1984 to 1990. She was a member and chair of the Board of Directors of the London Cross Cultural Learner Centre, a member of the Board of the Thames Valley Addiction Assessment and Referral Centre, two-term president of the London Status of Women Action Group and a member of the London Coordinating Committee to End Woman Abuse.

After leaving politics in 1999, Marion served as an adjudicator with the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board until October 2012. She led a four-year project, the Task Force on the Health Effects of Woman Abuse, focused on encouraging health professionals to screen all women for abuse and wrote the Task Force report which is used as an educational tool throughout the health professions. Marion is the co-author of the “Choices for Positive Youth Relationships” curriculum guide developed by the Speers Society. She was a founding Board member and the chair of the Speers Society from its inception.

In 2004, Marion conducted a Review of the Arbitration Act for Ontario’s Attorney General and the Minister Responsible for Women’s Issues, publishing a report entitled, “Dispute Resolution in Family Law: Protecting Choice, Promoting Inclusion.” She has since spoken and written widely on the subject of the impact of multiculturalism and religion on the resolution of family law matters. Marion is a lay-Bencher with the Law Society of , where she serves as co-chair of the Access to Justice Committee, is a member of the Paralegal Standing Committee, the Government Relations Committee and the Priority Planning Committee; she chairs the Law Society Foundation.

A member of the United Church of Canada, Marion serves on committees at her local church, is a lay presbytery representative and twice chaired the Ontario Women’s Conference on feminist spirituality.