Chief Justice Warren K. Winkler serves as chief justice of Ontario and as president of the Court of Appeal of Ontario. A distinguished Canadian labour lawyer and mediator, Chief Justice Winkler spent 14 years as a trial judge of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario, and was a founding partner at Winkler, Filion and Wakeley, a highly respected Toronto law firm. A judicial innovator, Chief Justice Winkler has strived to improve the rehabilitative process of class-action suits, and has heard proceedings on significant national issues, such as Aboriginal residential schools, hepatitis C, and mad cow disease. He has mediated many high-profile disputes, from Air Canada’s restructuring, to the tainted water scandal in Walkerton, Ont. He is a valued contributor to the activities of the Queen’s School of Policy Studies, and is the honorary chair of the Faculty of Law’s Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace.