Chief Judge Melissa Gillespie has announced the appointment of a new judicial justice.

It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce that the Lieutenant Governor in Council has signed an Order in Council appointing a new judicial justice to the Provincial Court. The new judicial justice appointment is Rose Dattilo.

Judicial Justice Dattilo

Judicial Justice Dattilo will be sworn in on October 14, 2026. She will be assigned to the Justice Centre and traffic.

Called to the BC Bar in 1997, Judicial Justice Dattilo spent her 30 year professional career as Crown counsel with the Department of Justice and Public Prosecution Service of Canada [“PPSC”]. In 2012 she was appointed as the Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the PPSC, BC. In addition to this role, from time to time, she was called upon to serve as the Acting Chief Prosecutor in BC, Alberta, Nunavut, and the Yukon Territory.