Brenda Picard welcomes Human Rights post

Jim Day Published on March 08, 2014

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Brenda Picard has tallied an impressive volunteer record over the years working with many provincial and national organizations relating to family violence prevention, restorative justice and conflict resolution.

Brenda Picard decided way back in Grade 8 she wanted to go to law school one day.

The appeal of the profession, concedes the relatively new executive director of the P.E.I. Human Rights Commission and former long-time legal aid lawyer, was nothing terribly noble at the time.

Looking back, the 51-year-old Mount Stewart resident believes her interest in becoming a lawyer was simply sparked by all the crime shows she had been watching on television at the time while growing up in Kensington.

She went on to enter law school with no specific area of the field in mind in which she might like to pursue. She would. though, eventually get a good diverse taste of the legal profession after receiving her bachelor of laws degree in 1985 from Dalhousie University.

Picard first worked in public legal education, updating and revising material during a short-term contract.

The education component would be a consistent one in her career while her jobs would vary in interesting fashion over the ensuing years.

I always had an interest in being able to share the knowledge and communicate and teach people...to be able to help people in understanding what their options were, says Picard.

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Brenda Picard welcomes Human Rights post