Members of the Board

DONALD CARTER, CHAIR

Donald Carter is a full-time arbitrator and mediator. From 1993 to 1998 he served as Dean of Law at Queen’s University and from 1985 to 1990 was Director of the Queen’s University Industrial Relations Centre/School of Industrial Relations. He has also served a President of the Canadian Industrial Relations Association (1991-92) and as Chair of the Ontario Labour Relations Board (1976-79). He is currently an editor of Labour Arbitration Xpress NetLetter.

Vice Chair

DEBORAH LEIGHTON

Deborah J.D. Leighton, B.A. (Law, Oxford), L.L.M, J.D., is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University. There she teaches courses in labour and employment law, human rights, arbitration and mediation. Her private practice includes mediations and arbitrations of commercial and labour disputes. Ms. Leighton is on numerous collective agreements, including Air Canada and ACPA, AGO and OPSEU. She is also a Vice-Chair of the Grievance Settlement Board and has served as an adjudicator for the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal (1992-8). Ms. Leighton is a member of the Florida Bar and the Law Society of Upper Canada.

KATHLEEN O’NEIL

Kathleen G. O’Neil brings over twenty years of experience as an adjudicator to her position as Vice-Chair, Ontario Public Service Grievance Board. She previously served as Vice-Chair of the Ontario Labour Relations Board (1988 to 1997), and of the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Tribunal (1986 to 1988). Since 1997, she has been active in her private practice as mediator and arbitrator dealing with grievances under Ontario and federal labour statutes, as well as a mediator in a wide variety of matters including human rights, employment related disputes, and general civil litigation. Admitted to the Bar of Ontario in 1979, she holds a B.A. from the University of Toronto and an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School.