Courtesy of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society
Tuma Young.
The Society’s Governance and Nominating Committee (GNC) nominates Mi’kmaq lawyer Tuma T. W. Young as the Society’s Second Vice-President for the 2019-2020 Council year. Tuma is the first Mi’kmaq lawyer nominated to the Society’s Executive.
In making its nomination, the GNC seeks integrity, respect for others, leadership and communication skills, strategic thinking and consensus building. The Society strives for diversity of leadership with respect to personal characteristics, area of practice and geographic location.
“I’m thrilled by the GNC’s selection of Tuma as the Society’s nominee for 2nd Vice-President,” said President Frank E. DeMont QC. “We’ve worked together both on Council and committees. Tuma has an expansive legal knowledge and brings his engaging, often humorous, personality to Council. Throughout his eighteen years of practice, he’s advocated for access to legal services and has run a pro bono law clinic at Cape Breton University. His academic background and active commitment to the legal profession’s response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commissio ...
