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Kim Brooks is Dalhousie's thirteenth president and former acting provost and vice-president academic. She served as dean of Schulich School of Law from 2010-2015 and the Faculty of Management from 2020-2023, prior to time spent as a practising lawyer and with academic appointments at Queen’s, UBC and McGill University, where she was the H. Heward Stikeman Chair in the Law of Taxation.
Born in Saskatoon in 1973 and raised in Ontario, she received her BA from the University of Toronto, LLB from the University of British Columbia, LLM from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University and PhD from the University of Western Australia. Her leadership and service reaches into the public sector and the local community; she was chair for both the National Association of Women and the Law and Women's Legal Education and Action Fund, managing editor of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, and board chair for Halifax Public Libraries.