Pam Chapman is a labour arbitrator and mediator, and a former Vice-Chair of the Ontario Labour Relations Board. She was first appointed to the Board as a full-time Vice-Chair in November 1993 and moved to part-time status in September 1998, concluding her third and final term in July 2002. After her call to the bar in 1988, she practised law in Toronto, first as an associate in the labour relations group at a large firm, and then as a founding partner in a small firm specializing in labour and administrative law. She speaks frequently on various labour, employment and administrative law topics, with a special emphasis on human rights and accommodation issues, as well as workplace privacy.

Pam has taught at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, Common Law Section since January 2002. She teaches labour law and grievance arbitration and coaches labour law moot teams. From January 2000 to May 2003, she also taught in the Department of Law in the Faculty of Public Administration at Carleton University, teaching courses in labour law, employment law and administrative law. Pam is a graduate of the University of Toronto (B.A. 1983) and of Osgoode Hall Law School (LL.B. 1986), where she is currently completing an LL.M. She has been published in the Osgoode Hall Law Journal, the Labour Arbitration Yearbook and the Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, and her research and writing interests include labour law, administrative law and legal theory.