Wendy Martin White, K.C., LL.B., B.A.

• Past Chair of the Lung Association of Manitoba Board of Directors (LAMB), 2024-2025
• Chair, Vice Chair of LAMB, 2022-2024
• Board member of LAMB, 2020-present
• Past Chair, Chair, Vice Chair of Mediation Services (MS) Board of Directors, 2015-2018
  Board member, MS, 2014-2018
• Chair and Vice Chair of IDEA Inc. Board of Directors, 2016-2019
• Chair of the Gratitude Gala, 2016-2019
• President of the Elizabeth Fry Society Board of Directors, 2007-2008

Manitoba Bar Association (MBA)

• Director of Advocacy and Public Relations 2024-2026, Vice-President 2026-2027, President 2027-2028
• Elected Member of Council, 2021-2023, 2023-2025
• Co-chair of the Criminal Law and Child and Youth Law sections, 2020-present
• Member of Criminal Law section, 2018-present

Canadian Bar Association (CBA)

• Communications Officer, National Child and Youth Law Section, 2024-2025, Secretary 2025-2026, Vice-Chair 2026-2027, Chair 2027-2028
• Executive Member of the National Criminal Law and Child and Youth Law sections, 2020-present
• Member of National Council, 2000-2001
• Chair and Member of National Law Day Committee, 1996-2000

Law Society of Manitoba (LSM).

• Appointed Member, Practice and Ethics Committee, 2020-present
• Appointed Member, Discipline Committee, 2021-present

Legal Aid Manitoba (LAM).

• Appointed Member, Advisory Committee, 2020-2022
• Tariff Review Committee, 2009-2017

Criminal Defence Lawyers Association (CDLAM)

• Secretary, 2016-2017
• Youth Representative, 2015-2016

Wendy Martin White, K.C. has practiced for more than 29 years, primarily as a criminal defence lawyer and is the recipient of the Manitoba Bar Association, 2020 Access to Justice Award and the 2022 Section Activity Award for Criminal Law. She received the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal (Manitoba) in December 2022 for her contributions to her peers, to her community, to Manitoba and to Canada. On August 31, 2023, she was awarded the designation of King’s Counsel for the province of Manitoba.

She has extensive trial, appellate and administrative tribunal experience. Her practice in the last 10 years has focused on complex matters, including murder, manslaughter, sexual assault, drug trafficking and impaired cases, often advancing unique Charter applications or motions. She represents clients throughout all of Manitoba and collaborated with a northern First Nation on Terms of Reference for its Justice Committee that adopted as its long-term goal, a self-governing Cree Court and Cree based justice system. Her client base is diverse, often presenting with complex backgrounds and challenges, including mental health, psychiatric diagnoses, and neurodiverse and cognitive limitations. She has worked closely with the FASD (Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder) youth court program and adult court pilot project. She has a particular passion for youth work.

She has lectured on a wide range of topics, including ineffective assistance of counsel, NCR (Not Criminally Responsible) findings and case studies, wrongful convictions, youth law and sexual assault law. She has supervised articling students and law students on Pro Bono Students Canada projects and facilitated the CPLED Bar Admission Course in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. She has lectured and presented to her colleagues, doctors, psychiatrists and psychologists and the community at large on access to justice issues for years.

She has served in various capacities on the Manitoba Bar Association (MBA), Canadian Bar Association (CBA) and the Manitoba Law Society (MLS) for years. She is an elected Member of Council of the MBA and was acclaimed to the position of Advocacy and Public Relations Director of the MBA for 2024-2026. She will move to Vice-President of the MBA in 2026-2027 and will become President of the MBA in 2027-2028. She was also acclaimed as an officer of the National Executive of the Child and Youth section of the CBA, serving as Communications Officer in 2024-2025, Secretary in 2025-2026, Vice-Chair in 2026-2027 and Chair in 2027-2028. She continues to serve on the MLS as an appointed member of the Discipline Committee and the Practice and Ethics Committee.

She has served on numerous boards and committees in the community. She launched the Restorative Justice Lecture Series while on the Board of Directors for Mediation Services. Moderated by Free Press columnist Dan Lett, the series was designed to highlight the importance of restorative justice in resolving conflict in our communities. She spearheaded the Women’s Bail Verification and Supervision Program, now well into its second decade. This program served as a model for a similar program developed for men through the John Howard Society and has assisted higher needs women secure bail for almost 2 decades.