A photo of the Saint John Law Courts building. (CHSJ News)
A new judge has been appointed to the Court of Queen’s Bench in Saint John.
Krista Colford is currently a solicitor in the Attorney General’s office, working in the areas of civil litigation and administrative law.
As counsel to the province, she has litigated matters in every judicial district in New Brunswick and all levels of provincial superior courts.
She also has extensive trial experience in personal injury law, construction law, contract law and administrative and human rights law.
Colford was also appointed to the Queen’s Counsel in 2016, the highest designation available in the legal profession.
Colford fills a vacancy in Saint John left by Madam Justice M.C. Bélanger-Richard, who left to fill another vacancy in Moncton when Madam Justice C.M. d’Entremont retired from her full-time position in June 2019.
She studied sociology at Dalhousie University and earned her Bachelors of Law degree at the University of New Brunswick. She then went to grad school at the University of Illinois, before being called to the bar in both Ontario and New Brunswick.
She then returned to Fredericton to practice with law firm Eddy Young Hoyt and Downs, and to teach at UNB as an adjunct business professor.
Colford currently lives in Fredericton with her husband and two children.
