Honourable Judge Marion Buller

The Honourable Judge Marion Buller is of Cree heritage, a member of the Mistawasis First Nation in Saskatchewan, and has been a leading force in Indigenous rights advocacy throughout her career. In 2006, she was instrumental in the initiation of the First Nations Courts in British Columbia. Her most recent role will serve as a critical tool in the continued fight for the restoration of Indigenous rights and freedoms. In June 2019, led by Judge Buller, the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls released its findings in a two-volume report, with 231 “Calls to Justice” directed at governments, institutions, social-service providers, industries, and Canadians as a whole. Judge Buller was appointed the first woman First Nations judge in British Columbia in 1994. Earlier this year, she was named as one of Canada’s Top 25 Women of Influence and was just recently awarded the Vancouver YWCA Woman of Distinction Award for Reconciliation.