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Rosalie Silberman Abella FRSC (born July 1, 1946) is a Canadian jurist. In 2004, Abella was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, becoming the first Jewish woman and refugee to sit on the Canadian Supreme Court bench. She retired from the federal bench in 2021.
Rosalie Abella has led an extraordinary life of firsts: the youngest judge appointed in Canadian history, the first judge to preside in court while pregnant, the first Jewish...
The Honourable Rosalie Silberman Abella. Justice Abella was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in 2004. She is the first Jewish woman appointed to the Court. She was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1997, to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007, and to the American Philosophical Society in 2018.
Rosalie Silberman Abella. Samuel LLM ’55, SJD ’59 and Judith Pisar Visiting Professor of Law. 2023-2024. Download image. Justice Abella was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in 2004. She is the first Jewish woman appointed to the Court.
Rosalie Abella’s life — from her birth in a displaced persons camp in Germany, the child of Holocaust survivors, to her 17-year tenure as a Supreme Court justice on Canada’s highest court — is, in a word, unprecedented.
Dubbed Canada’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Abella led the way on major decisions about employment equity, same sex marriage and more.
Rosalie Silberman Abella is the first Jewish woman and the first former refugee to be appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada. She was also both the youngest person and the first pregnant person to become a judge in Canada. Abella served as a justice on the Supreme Court from 2004 until 2021.
