Professor Deborah Leighton is a member of the faculty of the School of Policy Studies, at Queen's University, teaching in the Master of Industrial Relations program since 1994. She has been a labour mediator and arbitrator since 1992, and has been a named arbitrator for many parties including Air Canada and ACPA, University of Toronto and CUPE, and the Ontario Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology (CAAT-Academic) and OPSEU.

In addition to her private practice as a mediator and arbitrator, Deborah has acted in these roles for a number of public boards. She has been a Vice-Chair at the Ontario Crown Employees' Grievance Settlement Board since 1996 and a Vice-Chair, at the Ontario Public Service Grievance Board since 1992. She served two terms as an Adjudicator, for the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal between 1992 and 1998.

Deborah's education includes a BA in Law from Oxford University, and an LLM from the University of Texas at Austin.

Deborah presents at the following IRC program(s): Labour Arbitration Skills