diff --git a/integration_tests/src/main/python/json_test.py b/integration_tests/src/main/python/json_test.py
index 54605455353..78537eb5fb3 100644
--- a/integration_tests/src/main/python/json_test.py
+++ b/integration_tests/src/main/python/json_test.py
@@ -599,7 +599,7 @@ def test_from_json_map_fallback():
 @allow_non_gpu(*non_utc_allow)
 def test_from_json_struct(schema):
     # note that column 'a' does not use leading zeroes due to https://github.com/NVIDIA/spark-rapids/issues/9588
-    json_string_gen = StringGen(r'{"a": [1-9]{0,5}, "b": "[A-Z]{0,5}", "c": 1\d\d\d}') \
+    json_string_gen = StringGen(r'{\'a\': [1-9]{0,5}, "b": \'[A-Z]{0,5}\', "c": 1\d\d\d}') \
         .with_special_pattern('', weight=50) \
         .with_special_pattern('null', weight=50)
     assert_gpu_and_cpu_are_equal_collect(
diff --git a/integration_tests/src/test/resources/dates.json b/integration_tests/src/test/resources/dates.json
index 1fdfc3b4320..e32ff381dd4 100644
--- a/integration_tests/src/test/resources/dates.json
+++ b/integration_tests/src/test/resources/dates.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-{ "number": "2020-09-16" }
-{ "number": " 2020-09-16" }
-{ "number": "2020-09-16 " }
-{ "number": "1581-01-01" }
-{ "number": "1583-01-01" }
\ No newline at end of file
+{ 'number': '2020-09-16' }
+{ 'number': ' 2020-09-16' }
+{ 'number': '2020-09-16 ' }
+{ 'number': '1581-01-01' }
+{ 'number': '1583-01-01' }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/sql-plugin/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/json/rapids/GpuJsonScan.scala b/sql-plugin/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/json/rapids/GpuJsonScan.scala
index 138f99b0c72..c32838d903d 100644
--- a/sql-plugin/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/json/rapids/GpuJsonScan.scala
+++ b/sql-plugin/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/json/rapids/GpuJsonScan.scala
@@ -359,6 +359,7 @@ class JsonPartitionReader(
     cudf.JSONOptions.builder()
       .withRecoverWithNull(true)
       .withMixedTypesAsStrings(enableMixedTypesAsString)
+      .withNormalizeSingleQuotes(true)
       .build
   }
 
diff --git a/sql-plugin/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/rapids/GpuJsonToStructs.scala b/sql-plugin/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/rapids/GpuJsonToStructs.scala
index a6dcb9d8edf..77d7956c2e7 100644
--- a/sql-plugin/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/rapids/GpuJsonToStructs.scala
+++ b/sql-plugin/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/rapids/GpuJsonToStructs.scala
@@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ case class GpuJsonToStructs(
             val jsonOptions = cudf.JSONOptions.builder()
               .withRecoverWithNull(true)
               .withMixedTypesAsStrings(enableMixedTypesAsString)
+              .withNormalizeSingleQuotes(true)
               .build()
             withResource(cudf.Table.readJSON(jsonOptions, data, start, length)) { tableWithMeta =>
               val names = tableWithMeta.getColumnNames