All rise - Hapnot Collegiate alum Jasmin Ahmad has earned one of British Columbia’s most coveted legal posts.
Ahmad was appointed to B.C.’s provincial supreme court Sept. 9, joining the group after an extensive legal career. Since being called to the B.C. bar in 1995, Ahmad has worked extensively in the courtroom and legal offices, being appointed to the Law Society of British Columbia’s hearing panel in 2011, being named a bencher with the society in 2016 and chairing several committees with the society including the equity, diversity and inclusion advisory committee. Ahmad received a fellowship from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and was appointed as Queen’s Counsel last year
Long before any of that, Jasmin was a student at Parkdale School and Hapnot Collegiate. The daughter of former Flin Flon mayor Nazir Ahmad, her family said to The Reminder that she was heavily involved in student life and sports while attending Hapnot.
Ahmad was part of several zone championship volleyball and basketball teams, but it was in school politics where she truly shined, serving on Hapnot’s student council, with Youth Parliament and as the chair of her high school graduation committee. At one point, Ahmad received a letter from former Prime Minster Pierre Elliot Trudeau to address her graduation class.
Ahmad graduated high school in 1987 and received a scholarship from McGill University, heading there to start a bachelor degree in commerce. She received that honour after four years of study, coming back to Flin Flon to work at the Royal Bank on Main Street every summer.
After graduating from McGill, Ahmad then travelled across the country to the Univ. of Victoria, where she received her bachelor of laws in 1994. She was called to the B.C. bar a year later and joined Kaufman Kalef LLP in 1997 where she eventually made partner. Her ascension in the B.C. law community has continued ever since.
As a lawyer, Ahmad has worked on contract disputes, conflict and dispute resolution, litigation, arbitration, real estate, contracts, defamation, fraud and negligence claims and other legal discourse. Ahmad served on the litigation and dispute resolution team for Kaufman Kalef.
