Ray Stortini

After graduating from high school, Stortini worked at Algoma Steel, on a Great Lakes freighter and in the insurance industry before pursuing a post-secondary education. He enrolled in University of Western Ontario’s physical education teacher program then switched to studying law. He earned a BA from the University of Western Ontario and a Bachelor of Laws degree from York University in 1960. After running a general law practice in the Sault, Stortini was appointed a judge of York County (Toronto) in 1971, to the Algoma District Court in 1976 and then appointed as a justice of the Superior Court of Justice in 1990. He held that post until he retired in 2004.