Justice Kim Crosbie was appointed to the Ontario Court of Justice in March of 2016 and presides in the Region of Toronto. She received her Hons. B.A. from Carleton University (Law and Criminology), LL.B from the University of Ottawa and a Master degree in Legal Studies from Carleton University.
Before being appointed, Justice Crosbie was Crown Counsel at the Crown Law Office – Criminal, Ministry of the Attorney General. Before starting at the Crown Law Office – Criminal, she clerked at the Court of Appeal for Ontario. As Crown Counsel, she appeared before all levels of court. From January 2014 to July 2015, she was on secondment from Crown Law to a trial office and conducted trials in the O.C.J. and S.C.J. In the summer of 2015, she was appointed the Chair for the Ministry’s Sexual Violence Advisory Group and she was also the lead for the Ministry on training and education relating to sexual violence.
While a Crown, Justice Crosbie co-directed an annual weeklong course for Crowns on domestic and sexual violence. She was involved with many educational presentations, programs and lectures with the Bar, judges and the police. In June 2014 and January 2015, was involved in a mission to Jamaica as part of the Department of International Government Affairs and the Department of Justice Canada’s Justice Undertakings for Social Justice.
Since 2007, Justice Crosbie has been an Adjunct Faculty member at Osgoode Hall Law School where she taught Sentencing (J.D. and LL.M. programs) and taught Sexual Offences (J.D. program). She currently teaches Sentencing in the LL.M. program. Since 2017-18, she has been teaching Sentencing and the Penal Policy at the University of Toronto. Contact: kimberley.crosbie@ocj-cjo.ca
