LEAF would like to congratulate Daphne Dumont, Q.C., of Charlottetown on being appointed  a Member of the Order of Canada in recognition  of outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and service to the nation.

It is not the first time this founding member of LEAF’s work has been recognized. In  2009 Daphne Dumont received the Governor General’s Award in commemoration of the Persons Case. She earned her law degree at Oxford University in 1976, where she was the first woman admitted to study law at Wadham College. The third woman president of the CBA, she was the first from Prince Edward Island. Daphne Dumont was President of the PEI Branch (1986-1987) and was a member of the National Task Force on Gender Equality in the Legal Profession (1991-1993), which produced the landmark report on Gender Equality in the Legal Profession. She was named Queen’s Counsel in 1995.