As the Windsor Star reports, former Windsor Law dean, the Hon. Juanita Westmoreland-Traoré is one of two President’s Award winners named by the Canadian Bar Association to kick off Black History Month.
The Hon. Juanita Westmoreland-Traoré was the University of Windsor’s law dean from 1996 to 1999 and became the first Black dean of a law school in Canada. Westmoreland-Traoré and the Hon. Hugh Fraser were chosen as two outstanding members of the black legal community for the President’s Awards that honour significant contributions to the Canadian legal profession.