Barbara Romaine K.C.

Arbitrator, Mediator
Calgary, Alberta
(403) 397-0220
beromaine@gmail.com

The Honorable Barbara Romaine retired from the Court of King's Bench of Alberta on July 4, 2025, after a nearly 28 years serving as a Justice of the Court. She is a graduate of the University of Alberta, (B.A. 1971; LL.B, 1974) and was called to the bar of Alberta in 1975. Prior to her appointment in 1997, Ms Romaine was a partner with the Calgary office of McCarthy Tétrault, involved primarily with national and inter-national project development and financing and securities law. She was a Bencher of the Law Society of Alberta from 1990 to 1997 and served as President in 1997. While a Justice, Ms Romaine was often assigned to commercial insolvency and complex commercial matters at the Court. She was a member of the Court's Commercial Practice Group., serving as Co-chair until 2016.

Ms Romaine, together with Professor Janis Sarra, co-edited the 2012 to 2018 volumes of the Annual Review of Insolvency Law. She was a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Review until 2023, and a member of the board of the International Insolvency Institute until 2022. She is an International Judicial Affiliate member of the US National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, and a member of INSOL International, the International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation, the International Exchange of Experience on Insolvency Law, and the Bowen Group. As a Justice, she participated as a faculty member and panelist in a number of programs for the National Judicial Institute and for the international associations to which she belongs.

As a member of the Bowen Group, she has co-authored two books related to international insolvency: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Insolvency and Financial Institutions in Distress, both through Oxford Press.

Ms Romaine is interested in pursuing opportunities in arbitration, mediation and early neutral evaluation.