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Palbinder Kaur Shergill, a prominent Sikh lawyer in British Columbia, Canada, was appointed a BC Supreme Court Justice by the Trudeau government. She was born in Rurka Kalan in Jalandhar and is thought to be the first turbanned judge in Canada. "She has represented the WSO in landmark cases in front of the Supreme Court of Canada including the right of Sikh students to wear the kirpan (a ceremonial knife) in schools, and the right of a Catholic high school to teach an ethics and religious culture course from a Catholic perspective." http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/06/26/palbinder-kaur-shergill-bc-supreme-court-turban-sikh-judge_a_23002618/ https://www.canada.ca/en/department-justice/news/2017/06/government_of_canadaannouncesjudicialappointmentsintheprovinceof1.html Just as a point of clarification, despite the name, the BC Supreme Court is not the supreme court in British Columbia. BC courts start with the Provincial Courts, then the BC Supreme Court, then the Court of Appeal. So the "Supreme" Court is the mid-level court. See http://www.courts.gov.bc.ca/ I'm sure some among our people will do what they always do, and try to pull her down. "There are certain people in this world who are infected with “the lobster syndrome”. These are the people who cannot stand to see other people do well. They will pinch, pull, and pry to try and drag anyone else down who appears to be progressing ahead of them." Despite my differences with some of her opinions (she's an advisory board member of the Sikh Feminist Research Institute), I'm glad she has been appointed.