{"id":20194,"date":"2012-12-21T13:58:18","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T18:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=20194"},"modified":"2012-12-21T13:58:18","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T18:58:18","slug":"former-board-chair-gets-superior-court-nod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2012\/12\/former-board-chair-gets-superior-court-nod\/","title":{"rendered":"Former board chair gets Superior Court nod"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20197\" style=\"width: 413px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/dave-edwards.jpeg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20197\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20197 \" title=\"dave-edwards\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/dave-edwards-771x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Dave Edwards, former Board of Trustees chair, was appointed a Superior Court judge. \" width=\"403\" height=\"535\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave Edwards, former Brock board of trustees chair, was appointed a Superior Court judge. <\/p><\/div>\n<p>St. Catharines lawyer Dave Edwards, a former Brock University trustee and chair of the board, has been appointed a Superior Court judge.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards, who joins the bench in Brampton, was one of six new judges assigned to courts across the country by the federal government last week.<\/p>\n<p>A lawyer with <a title=\"Lancaster, Brooks and Welch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lbwlawyers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lancaster Brooks and Welch in St. Catharines<\/a> since 1979, Edwards has been a certified specialist in corporate and commercial law since 2005. His other areas of practice are commercial, corporate, estates, real estate and administrative law.<\/p>\n<p>He was admitted to the bar in 1977 after receiving his Bachelor of Laws from Osgoode Hall. He obtained a Master of Laws degree in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards has been a member of the Ontario Civilian Police Commission since 2004. He has served as vice-chair since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>He was a Brock trustee from 1994 to 2005, board chair from 2000 to 2003 and was named Trustee Emeritus in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards was instrumental in bringing President Jack Lightstone to Brock, on whose watch the university has gone through remarkable growth.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Edwards is a member of the Rotary Club of St. Catharines and a past member of its board.<\/p>\n<p>He and his wife, Mary Ann, plan to keep their home in St. Catharines.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Ann, who is director of the <a title=\"Rankin Cancer Run\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rankincancerrun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rankin Cancer Run,<\/a> will remain at the helm of the event, which has raised $3.229 million since the first run seven years ago.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s run, which saw 10,000 people participate, raised $725,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Catharines lawyer Dave Edwards, a former Brock University trustee and chair of the board, has been appointed a Superior Court judge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":20197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[460],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20199,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20194\/revisions\/20199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}