Nathan Nurgitz

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, his parents, Hymie and Dora, had come to Manitoba in the early 1900s as refugees from tsarist Russia. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1954 and a Bachelor of Law degree in 1958 from the University of Manitoba and had taken attended a Harvard course on mediation. He was created a Queen's Counsel in 1977. From 1968 to 1975, he sat as a Magistrate in the city of West Kildonan. He was elected a Bencher of the Law Society of Manitoba in 1978, and re-elected in 1980. ==Career==

From 1963 to 1969, he was an alderman of the City of West Kildonan, which is now a suburb of Winnipeg. On May 28, 2009, Nurgitz re-joined the Winnipeg Law Firm of Thompson Dorfman Sweatman, he had previously practiced law at the firm between 1979 and 1993 before his appointment to the bench. He is the co-author of Strong and Free (1970) and No Small Measure, with Hugh Segal (1983). ==Death==

Nurgitz died on October 19, 2019, after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for several years. ==References==