Executive Committee Members 2025/2026
Jennifer Fehr|PRESIDENT
Jennifer Fehr is the Supervising Lawyer Downtown Legal Services at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Jennifer attended Osgoode Hall Law School where she was a student at Parkdale Community Legal Services and Wilson Mooting Champion. Following her call to the bar in 2008, Jennifer practiced labour law at arbitration tribunals for the Ontario Public Service Employees Union before joining DLS in 2016 to start the Employment Law Division. She and her students regularly represent clients before boards, tribunals and Small Claims Court and deliver public legal education sessions to community groups and University of Toronto students. Prior to become President, Jennifer served as Secretary and Treasurer of ACCLE.
Ted Murray has been the Executive Director of the Thomson Rivers University Community Legal Clinic say May 2017. Prior to that he had been the founding Supervising Lawyer since 2016. Ted is also a sessional instructor in the TRU Faculty of Law currently teaching Employment Law and Insurance Law. He has previously taught Labour Law, Privacy Law, Community Lawyering and Fundamental Legal Skills. Ted is also an assistant coach with the TRU women’s basketball team and was previously an assistant coach with the men’s basketball team from 2015 to 2023.
Chris Heslinga Chris Heslinga is the Director of The Law Centre, a student legal clinic run through the University of Victoria. Previously, Chris was a Supervising Lawyers for the Law Students’ Legal Advice Program (LSLAP) and a Supervising Lawyer and Academic Director for the Indigenous Community Legal Clinic (ICLC) at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Chris has volunteered with the Community Legal Assistance Society’s Mental Health Law Program and Access Pro Bono. Chris currently volunteers with Pro Bono Students’ Canada and the Victoria Native Friendship Centre. Chris has been part of ACCLE for over 10 years.
Jeannette Savoie is the Director of the UNB Legal Clinic. She was the founding supervising lawyer of the UNB Legal Clinic since 2022. She is also a sessional instructor at UNB Law teaching family law. She who brings nearly 20 years of practice experience to the position, including ten years with the Legal Aid Commission of the Northwest Territories. Ms. Savoie believes strongly in promoting access to justice through actions rather than words. During her time in the north, she established and operated the Outreach Legal Aid Clinic, which provides free legal representation to low-income people in matters relating to housing, disability and pension-related matters, employment issues, mental health and guardianship reviews, child protection matters, and debtor, creditor or civil claims.In addition to this work, Ms. Savoie partnered with Indigenous communities and the NWT Legal Aid Commission to conduct fly-in poverty law clinics and other mobile legal clinics for isolated communities. Her advocacy work has made a significant impact on these communities, expanding legal services and access to justice throughout the Northwest Territories.
Benjamin Ries | Member-at-large
Benjamin Ries is the supervising lawyer for Housing Law at Downtown Legal Services, the flagship student legal clinic of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He previously served as duty counsel at the Ontario Landlord and Tenant Board and practiced as a staff lawyer in four other community legal clinics between Hamilton and downtown Toronto. Ben is an active member of the Greater Toronto Clinic Housing Advocates, the Canadian Network for Health and Housing of People Experiencing Homelessness (CNH-3), and the St. Michael’s Hospital Health Justice Faculty.
Hajar Tohme| Member-at-large
Hajar Tohme joined LAW in February 2024 as a staff lawyer in public and social benefits. She is a graduate of Windsor Law and before becoming a staff lawyer, worked in real estate and corporate law. She came to LAW after working as the staff lawyer for Muslim Legal Support Centre (MLSC).
Tori Lee-Jenkins | Member-at-large
Tori joined LAW in March 2021 as a summary advice lawyer for landlord and tenant matters, and in June 2021 began working as a staff lawyer for landlord and tenant matters. Tori is a graduate of Windsor Law and before becoming a staff lawyer, practiced in criminal law and ran her own legal practice. She provides representation and student sueprvision in housing law at the clinic anda assists in development of community public education inititatives.
Anne Thibault | Member-at-large
Anne is a lawyer and coordinator at the Outaouais Interdisciplinary Social Law Clinic (CIDSO) at the University of Ottawa since it’s foundation in 2020. She is also currently completing her master’s degree in housing law at the University of Ottawa. During her years in private practice, she specialized in youth and administrative law. Prior to developping the CIDSO, she coordianted the activities of the Mile End Legal Clinic in Montreal. She is also the recipient of the 2023 Ferguson Award from the Association for Canadian Clinical Legal Education (ACLE) for Social de l’Outaouais. Her contribution to access to justice and clinical teaching in law.
Anne Thibault est une avocate et la coordinatrice de la Clinique interdisciplinaire en droit social de l’Outaouais à l’Université d’Ottawa depuis sa fondation en 2020. Elle complète présentement sa maitrise en droit du logement à l’université d’Ottawa. Durant ses années en pratique privée, elle se spécialisait en droit de la jeunesse et en droit administratif. Avant son implication avec la Clinique interdisciplinaire, elle agissait comme coordinatrice des activités de la Clinique Juridique “Mile End” à Montréal. Anne est aussi la récipiendaire pour l’année 2023 du Prix Ferguson déscerné par l’Association Canadienne pour l’Education Juridique Clinique (ACCLE) en reconnaissance de sa contribution au mouvement d’accès à la justice et son dévoument à l’enseignement du droit clinique.