Cheryl Milne

Cheryl Milne is the Executive Director of the Asper Centre, and teaches a clinical course in constitutional advocacy, and Children, Youth and the Law at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law. Prior to coming to the Centre, Ms. Milne was a legal advocate for children with the legal clinic Justice for Children and Youth where she led the clinic’s Charter litigation. She was the Chair of the Ontario Bar Association’s Constitutional, Civil Liberties and Human Rights section, and the Chair of the Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children and Justice Children and Youth. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the National Association for Women and the Law (NAWL) and the Child and Youth Law Section Executive of the Canadian Bar Association. In 2019 she received the Law Society Medal from the Law Society of Ontario for her contributions to the profession through her child rights advocacy and legal education, and in 2025 she received the U of T Chancellor's Distinguished Leader's Award and the OBA Award of Excellence in Constitutional, Civil Liberties and Human Rights Law.