Constance Darlene Hunt is a Canadian

Canada

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 lawyer, legal academic, and judge.

Born in Yorkton, Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....

, she received a Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts

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 degree in 1970 and a Bachelor of Law degree in 1972 from the University of Saskatchewan

University of Saskatchewan

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. In 1976, she received a Master of Law degree from Harvard University

Harvard University

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From 1973 to 1976, she was a Counsel with Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the national Inuit

Inuit

The Inuit are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Canada , Denmark , Russia and the United States . Inuit means “the people” in the Inuktitut language...

 organization in Canada. From 1976 to 1991, she was an Associate Professor and Professor of Law at the University of Calgary

University of Calgary

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. From 1989 to 1991, she was the Dean of Law at the University of Calgary. From 1981 to 1983, she was Counsel for Mobil Oil Canada.

She was appointed to the Court of Queen's Bench in 1991 and to the Court of Appeal of Alberta

Court of Appeal of Alberta

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 in 1995. In 1999, she was appointed a judge of the Court of Appeal of Nunavut.

In 2006, it was reported that she was one of three "short list" candidates recommended to be appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada

Supreme Court of Canada

The Supreme Court of Canada is the highest court of Canada and is the final court of appeals in the Canadian justice system. The court grants permission to between 40 and 75 litigants each year to appeal decisions rendered by provincial, territorial and federal appellate courts, and its decisions...

 replacing the retired justice, John C. Major

John C. Major

John Charles "Jack" Major, CC, QC is a Canadian jurist and was a puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada from 1992 to 2005....

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Hunt is bilingual, and has heard cases in French at the Court of Appeal.