598 THE ADVOCATE
VOL. 80 PART 4 JULY 2022
back. It is no surprise that in 2016 Lorianna accepted a government appointment
to sit as a director of PHSA and BCEHS. She spent the next six years,
and up until the time of her appointment to the Provincial Court, chairing
the Research Committee and the Quality and Safety Committee, and she
helped establish the board’s Cultural Safety and Humility Committee as a
way to bring further awareness to Indigenous health issues. She was
actively involved with providing input into the building of the new BC Children’s
Hospital Teck Acute Care Centre, and was present as it opened its
new doors in 2018. As Lorianna’s daughter grew older and began to question
the need for her mom’s routine “work trips” to Vancouver, Lorianna did not
hesitate to explain to her daughter where she was going, and why the work
she was doing was so important.
Notwithstanding her provincial board work, Lorianna always appreciated
the importance of giving back to her community. Starting in 2010, she spent
a few years at Thompson Rivers University (“TRU”) as a sessional instructor
of Business Law. In 2016, Lorianna returned to TRU, this time to teach ADR
and Family Law at the TRU Faculty of Law with her brother, David.
Lorianna’s resume also includes six years of service on the board of the
Venture Kamloops Economic Development Agency and serving as a professional
member of the Royal Inland Hospital Foundation since 2004. Besides
raising funds for local healthcare projects, Lorianna served for six years on
the TRU Foundation Board and was recognized as the 2010 recipient of the
TRU Distinguished Alumni Award for Community Service.
Lorianna’s service to the profession is no less impressive. She has served
as president of the Kamloops Bar Association, where she organized events
to raise money for worthy local causes. From 1999 to 2007 and again from
2013 to 2015, she served as an elected member of the Canadian Bar Association
(BC Branch), where she held many different positions. She was recognized
as the recipient of the 2005 CBABC Community Service Award.
What makes these contributions even more remarkable is Lorianna’s
ability to balance them with her obligations to her family and her involvement
in the lives of her children. She starts each day at 5:00 a.m. by making
fresh sourdough bread (she is not shy about how she proudly manages to
keep her sourdough starter alive) and engaging in a fitness workout. She
still has school-age children and gets them ready for their day before heading
off to a full day of work on her own. As if she did not have enough to do,
Lorianna has rekindled her love for the piano and plays daily as a means to
unwind after a hectic day.
Lorianna’s contributions to her profession and the broader community
are difficult to summarize in a limited space. By any measure, she has