Debra Febril
Indigenous Lawyer
Human Rights Clinic – HRC
Debra Febril is a Legal advocate with the BC Human Rights Clinic at the Community Legal Assistance Society (CLAS). She completed her articling term with Atira Women’s Resource Society and CLAS in July 2021.
Debra graduated from Thompson Rivers University (TRU) with a Bachelor of Arts in English (Rhetoric and Professional Writing) in 2011 and obtained her Juris Doctor of Laws from TRU in 2014. She was called to the British Columbia bar in January of 2023
She has experience in the areas of Criminal, Child Protection, Administrative, Human Rights and Indigenous laws. Debra is co-founder of TRU’S Indigenous Law Students Association and was nominated by her peers to serve as their first president. She also received TRU’s first Canadian Bar Association (CBA) Student Achievement award for a law student who best exemplifies the ideals of the profession. Debra is also a long-standing member of the CBA’s Aboriginal Lawyers Forum.
Debra is a life-long advocate of human rights and Indigenous rights and has joined CLAS to use her legal skills and training to contribute to the organization’s mission and the tremendous work being done.