{"id":81683,"date":"2021-07-09T10:08:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T14:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/?p=81683"},"modified":"2021-07-13T10:09:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T14:09:43","slug":"gregory-shannon-llm-90-appointed-to-alberta-provincial-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/2021\/07\/09\/gregory-shannon-llm-90-appointed-to-alberta-provincial-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Gregory Shannon (LLM &#8217;90) Appointed to Alberta Provincial Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Alberta government announced that eight new judges have been appointed to the provincial court of Alberta, the largest number of judges to be appointed at once in at least the last two decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI congratulate all these worthy appointees and wish them success in their new roles as judges of the provincial court of Alberta. This group of appointees represents the diversity present in Alberta and will help increase access to justice for Albertans,\u201d Kaycee Madu, minister of justice and solicitor general, said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Gregory Shannon has been appointed to Calgary Civil Division, effective July 30. He earned his juris doctor from California Western School of Law in 1989 and his master of laws from Boston University in 1990. Shannon is a member of the California, British Columbia and Alberta bars and has practised in all three jurisdictions. He received the Governor General\u2019s Golden Jubilee Award for public service in 2002 and in 2018 was named an international fellow of the American College of Trust &amp; Estate Counsel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelawyersdaily.ca\/business\/articles\/28178\/eight-new-judges-appointed-to-alberta-provincial-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read More.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alberta government announced that eight new judges have been appointed to the provincial court of Alberta, the largest number of judges to be appointed at once in at least the last two decades. \u201cI congratulate all these worthy appointees and wish them success in their new roles as judges of the provincial court of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[565],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81684,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81683\/revisions\/81684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}