Board Chair Jim Wishlove and Vice-Chair Samina Tajwar both re-elected.

The Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC) is pleased to welcome to its Board of Governors Mark Weintraub, who has been appointed by the Province of British Columbia.

Weintraub’s appointment is effective July 31 and is for an initial one-year term.

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Mark Weintraub, K.C. joins JIBC's Board of Governors effective July 31.

New Governor brings wealth of legal experience

Mark Weintraub, K.C. is a partner with Clark Wilson LLP where he serves as the firm’s senior estate and trust trial lawyer representing personal executors and trustees, trust companies, non-profit organizations and charities.

Weintraub is a prolific contributor to numerous wills and estates publications for the B.C. Law Society and the co-author of British Columbia Estate Litigation, 2nd Edition (2025). He was appointed as Queen’s Counsel (now King’s Counsel) in 2015 in recognition of his legal contributions.

His community work has included roles with the Multiculturalism Committee of the Law Society of British Columbia, Canadian Cancer Society, the Vancouver Holocaust Centre’s Board of Directors, and the Vancouver Office of the Chief Constable. He has served as a multi-faith community advisor with Omni 10 BC, and as a cultural diversity advisor for Global Television Network. As a former Chair of the Canadian Jewish Congress, Pacific Region, he presented at JIBC’s 2005 Symposium for Law Enforcement on Preventing and Responding to Hate Crime.

Weintraub holds a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts (History of Religion) from the University of British Columbia and a law degree from the University of Toronto.

Chair and Vice-Chair re-elected

Board Chair Jim Wishlove and Vice-Chair Samina Tajwar were both re-elected to their positions.

Tajwar and Laurel Douglas, who have both served on the Board since 2019, were re-appointed to one-year terms ending in 2026. Five Governors were re-appointed to two-year terms ending in 2027 – Michelle Cameron, Eddy Elmer, Barbara Fitzsimmons, Kathryn McNaughton and Colin Watson. 


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