Carolyn Layden-Stevenson

Carolyn Layden-Stevenson (23 July 1947 - 27 June 2012^[1]) was a Canadian judge. She ruled on a number of cases and motions involving suspects accused of links to militant and terrorist organisations.^[2]

Layden-Stevenson was born in Saint John, New Brunswick. Layden-Steven studied at the New Brunswick Teachers' College, St. Thomas University and University of New Brunswick.^[3] She received a Bachelor of Teaching in 1970 and a Bachelor of Arts in 1971, both from St. Thomas University.^[4] She worked as a guidance counsellor and teacher from 1967 until 1981.^[3]

She received a Bachelor of Laws in 1984 from the University of New Brunswick.^[4] She was called to the Bar of New Brunswick in 1981, and made partner at Stevenson & Stevenson in Fredericton the following year.

After seventeen years with the firm,^[5] she was appointed Judge of the Federal Court of Canada, Trial Division and ex-officio member of the Court of Appeal (the Appeal Division) on 25 January 2002.^[3] She was also appointed Judge of the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada on 18 April 2002.^[3] After the Federal Court was split into two separate courts via the Courts Administration Service Act in 2003, she became a Judge of the Federal Court on 2 July 2003.^[3] She was appointed to the Federal Court of Appeal on 12 December 2008.^[4]

Layden-Stevenson died on 27 June 2012 in Ottawa, Ontario.^[1]