Jill Witkin was appointed a judge of the Ontario Court of Justice in 2023. Prior to that she worked as counsel at the Crown Law Office (Criminal) and was the Chair of the Criminal Law Division’s Sexual Violence Advisory Group. She was Deputy Crown Attorney at Old City Hall courthouse from 2009 – 2015 and before that she was Team Leader of the Child Abuse Team. As a prosecutor, she did a great deal of high-profile trial and appellate work involving cases of sexual assault.
Jill is an Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. She was the past director of the Ontario Crown Attorney’s Association summer school courses “Sexual and Domestic Violence” and “Sexual Offences”. She speaks on various aspects of criminal law and procedure at a variety of educational conferences for the legal and quasi-legal profession and she has done a great deal of police training. She has conducted workshops in Uganda, teaching justice participants how to effectively interview children and adduce a child’s evidence in court.
Jill is the proud mother of three Gen-Z’ers.