This brief history of women judges in Ontario is offered as a homage to those who came before me and to those who came to the bench in the 9 years after my appointment in 1981. It consists of three parts. Part 1 lists all the federally-appointed and provincially-appointed judges down to 1990. Each entry has basic information about the backgrounds and careers of those judges, and additional information about their other accomplishments. The women judges are listed by their date of appointment, starting with the earliest…