Jacqueline Asselin

Jacqueline Asselin was called to the Ontario Bar in 1979 after completing her LLB and Bachelor of Administration degrees at the University of Ottawa. She opened her own law firm in Ottawa in 1979 and was initially engaged in a sole private practice. She later expanded her firm under the name J. Asselin & Associates. She remained with her firm until 2009, practicing in the areas of residential real estate, family law, and wills and estates. She was a fulltime faculty member at Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology in Ottawa from 2003 until 2017 in the Law Clerk and Paralegal programs. She taught legal accounting, residential real estate, and estates administration and procedures, as well as property relationships, introduction to law, and landlord and tenant law. In 2013, Jacqueline was appointed by the Council for the Township of McNab/Braeside to the sit on the Property Standards Committee which deals with by-law infractions and the Committee of Adjustments which hears severance and minor variation applications. Jacqueline retired from Algonquin College in June 2017 and devotes her time to travelling and to managing Tallyho Inc., a foundation that helps students meet their educational goals. She is vice-chair of the Arnprior Regional Health Foundation and Pension Concerns representative for district 21 of the Retired Teachers of Ontario.