Melinda Moch named UM’s winner of the Royal Society of Canada’s Justice Rosalie Silbermann Abella Prize 2024

September 10, 2024 —

The Faculty of Law congratulates recent graduate Melinda Moch on being selected as the University of Manitoba’s winner of the Royal Society of Canada’s 2024 Justice Rosalie Silbermann Abella Prize.

The Prize was created to recognize a graduating law student in each of the law schools in Canada who is most likely to positively influence equity and social justice in Canada or globally.

Melinda Moch is proudly Red River Métis, with community and family ties to Winnipeg and Manitoba’s Interlake. She sits on the Indigenous Advisory Council of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, and sat as President of the National Indigenous Law Students’ Association for the 2022-2023 term. She is an involved mother of five children, and has had a lengthy career as a Paralegal prior to and while attending law school. She plans to spend her legal career assisting Indigenous communities in advancement through economic development projects.

Moch graduated from the UM Faculty of Law in 2024 and is currently articling at MLT Aikins LLP.

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