From the Department of Justice news release:
Justice Julie Bergeron was called to the Bar of Ontario in 2000. She started her own law firm under the name of L’Étude légale Julie Bergeron in her hometown of Hawkesbury. Her law practice focused primarily on the areas of family law and real estate law. During her career, she also acted as an agent for the Family Responsibility Office, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Transportation, the Office of the Children’s Lawyer, and the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. She also acted in municipal and criminal law matters and represented the interests of municipalities in Ontario. Since 2019, she has served as a deputy judge in Small Claims Court.
In her practice, Justice Bergeron argued cases in English and in French in trial courts, the Divisional Court, and the Ontario Court of Appeal. She received the Heidi Levenson Polowin Award in 2018 and was named a special patron of the Children’s Treatment Centre in Cornwall.
Justice Bergeron has also been involved in her community. She was a member of the Prescott and Russell Superior Court of Justice Liaison Committee, a member of the board of directors of the Centre York Centre, a supervised access centre, and a member of the ad hoc committee on family law of the Association des juristes d’expression française de l’Ontario.