From the Department of Justice News Release: external link
Justice Maya Hamou received degrees from Université de Moncton in 2002 (BSc, Honors Biochemistry) and from the University of Ottawa in 2005 (LLB, cum laude). She was admitted to the Law Society of New Brunswick in 2009.
Justice Hamou embarked on a law career as Commission Counsel for the Cornwall Public Inquiry in 2006. She returned to the East Coast working as agent for the Public Prosecution Service of Canada following admission to the Law Society of New Brunswick in 2009. For close to a decade, she worked with the Civil Litigation Group of the Office of the Attorney General of New Brunswick. She represented the Province of New Brunswick in both official languages before all levels of courts in the province. Since 2019, she has worked as Hearing Officer with the Department of Justice and Public Safety for the Province of New Brunswick. In this role, she conducted emergency hearings pursuant to the Intimate Partner Violence Intervention Act and Small Claims Court adjudications.
Justice Hamou contributed to the profession as Chair of the Public Sector Lawyers Section of the Canadian Bar Association and as member of the Executive of the New Brunswick Branch of the Canadian Bar Association. In addition, she was involved with the Law Society of New Brunswick as member of Council, the Competence Committee, the Bar Admission Course Committee, and the Access to Justice Taskforce. From 2019 to 2022, she sought to ignite a passion for advocacy in students as co-instructor of the Legal Research and Advocacy Course at University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law.
Congratulations to Justice Hamou on this appointment!