The Honourable Mr. Justice Warren Winkler

Justice Warren Winkler grew up in Pincher Creek, Alberta and resides presently in Toronto. He is a graduate of the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor of Arts degree and the Osgoode Hall Law School with both an LL.B. and LL.M. He was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1965 and appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1977. He was founding partner of the law firm Winkler, Filion and Wakely in Toronto and has appeared in almost every jurisdiction in Canada as well as in Africa. Warren was appointed to the Superior Court of Ontario in 1993 and became Regional Senior Justice in the Toronto Region of that Court in 2004. He and his wife Ruth have two daughters, two grand-daughters and two black Labradors, Gretzky and Maggie. His interests include fly-fishing as well as farming and birding at his farm, Strawberry Hill, near Markdale. He was instrumental in the creation of the Long Point Waterfowl and Wetlands Research Fund in the late 1980’s, served as its chair since its inception, and in that role has worked closely with Bird Studies Canada.