Members of the legal and the justice community have bid farewell to Judge Violet Meekma.
The North Battleford provincial court judge has retired from the bench. A tribute luncheon was held in her honour Friday.
At city council Monday, Councillor Ray Fox publicly paid tribute to Meekma.
"She has made considerable contributions to this community, in all different types of ways," said Fox.
Fox, who works at BTC Justice, noted Meekma's chartable contributions, as well as her involvement in establishing the Domestic Violence Treatment Option Court in the community.
"She was the one that went out and actually got that program to us here in the Battlefords. It was largely an experimental program at the time. It had been adopted somewhere in the Yukon and had originally had come from the United States of America," said Fox.
"She had heard of this and actually talked to several groups in the city of North Battleford and was able to get together this Domestic Violence Treatment Option Court program, and it's a very, very good program."
Fox also noted Meekma had at one point brought the chief justice of Saskatchewan to Little Pine First Nation to discuss the possibility of "problem solving courts, which is way ahead of our time."
"She's started those little different things, planting the seeds, and I think its up to us to do some harvesting in that area," said Fox, who praised Meekma for her contributions "to the First Nations population, and to the population of North Battleford as well."
