Supreme Court of Canada

Current Justices

Justice			Service dates		Service length		Appointed on advice of	Legal education	Prior position
No.	Name (lived)	Province	Overall tenure	Chief justice tenure	Overall tenure	Chief justice tenure
1	Sir William Buell Richards (1815–1889)	Ontario	Sep 30, 1875 – Jan 10, 1879	Sep 30, 1875 – Jan 10, 1879	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd	Mackenzie (directly as chief justice)	Articles of clerkship with a senior lawyer (1837)	Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for Canada West
82	Andromache Karakatsanis (b. 1955)Template:Efn-ua	Ontario	Oct 21, 2011 – present	—	Template:AydTemplate:Efn-ua	Template:Ayd—	Harper	Osgoode Hall Law School	Court of Appeal for Ontario
83	Richard Wagner (b. 1957)Template:Efn-ua	Quebec	Oct 5, 2012 – present	Dec 18, 2017 – present	Template:AydTemplate:Efn-ua	Template:AydTemplate:Efn-ua	Harper (as puisne justice); J. Trudeau (as chief justice)	University of Ottawa Faculty of Law	Quebec Court of Appeal
84	Clément Gascon (b. 1960)Template:Efn-ua	Quebec	Jun 9, 2014 – present	—	Template:AydTemplate:Efn-ua	Template:Ayd—	Harper	McGill University Faculty of Law	Quebec Court of Appeal
85	Suzanne Côté (b. 1958)Template:Efn-ua	Quebec	Dec 1, 2014 – present	—	Template:AydTemplate:Efn-ua	Template:Ayd—	Harper	Laval University	Lawyer
86	Russell Brown (b. 1965)Template:Efn-ua	Alberta	Aug 31, 2015 – present	—	Template:AydTemplate:Efn-ua	Template:Ayd—	Harper	University of Victoria University of Toronto	Court of Appeal of Alberta
87	Malcolm Rowe (b. 1953)Template:Efn-ua	Newfoundland and Labrador	Oct 28, 2016 – present	—	Template:AydTemplate:Efn-ua	Template:Ayd—	J. Trudeau	Osgoode Hall Law School	Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador (Court of Appeal)
88	Sheilah Martin (b. 1956)Template:Efn-ua	Alberta	Dec 18, 2017 – present	—	Template:AydTemplate:Efn-ua	Template:Ayd—	J. Trudeau	McGill University Faculty of Law University of Alberta Faculty of Law	Court of Appeal of Alberta Court of Appeal for the Northwest Territories Court of Appeal of Nunavut

Past Justices

Justice			Service dates		Service length		Appointed on advice of	Legal education	Prior position
No.	Name (lived)	Province	Overall tenure	Chief justice tenure	Overall tenure	Chief justice tenure
1	Sir William Buell Richards (1815–1889)	Ontario	Sep 30, 1875 – Jan 10, 1879	Sep 30, 1875 – Jan 10, 1879	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd	Mackenzie (directly as chief justice)	Articles of clerkship with a senior lawyer (1837)	Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for Canada West
2	William Johnstone Ritchie (1813–1892)	New Brunswick	Sep 30, 1875 – Sep 25, 1892	Jan 11, 1879 – Sep 25, 1892	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd	Mackenzie (as puisne justice); Macdonald (as chief justice)	Articles of clerkship with a senior lawyer (1837)	Chief Justice of New Brunswick
3	Samuel Henry Strong (1825–1909)	Ontario	Sep 30, 1875 – Nov 17, 1902	Dec 13, 1892 – Nov 17, 1902	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd	Mackenzie (as puisne justice); Thompson (as chief justice)	Articles of clerkship with a senior lawyer (1849)	Ontario Court of Error & Appeal
4	Jean-Thomas Taschereau (1814–1893)	Quebec	Sep 30, 1875 – Oct 6, 1878	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Mackenzie	Articles of clerkship with a senior lawyer; École de droit de Paris (1837)	Court of Queen's Bench of Quebec
5	Télesphore Fournier (1823–1896)	Quebec	Sep 30, 1875 – Sep 11, 1895	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Mackenzie	Articles of clerkship with a senior lawyer (1846)	Postmaster General
6	William Alexander Henry (1816–1888)	Nova Scotia	Sep 30, 1875 – May 3, 1888	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Mackenzie	Articles of clerkship with a senior lawyer (1841)	Lawyer
7	Sir Henri-Elzéar Taschereau (1836–1911)	Quebec	Oct 7, 1878 – May 1, 1906	Nov 21, 1902 – May 1, 1906	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd	Mackenzie (as puisne justice); Laurier (as chief justice)	—	Quebec Superior Court
8	John Wellington Gwynne (1814–1902)	Ontario	Jan 14, 1879 – Jan 7, 1902	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Macdonald	Articles of clerkship with a senior lawyer (1837)	Ontario Court of Error & Appeal
9	Christopher Salmon Patterson (1823–1893)	Ontario	Oct 27, 1888 – Jul 24, 1893	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Macdonald	—	Ontario Court of Error & Appeal
10	Robert Sedgewick (1848–1906)	Nova Scotia	Feb 18, 1893 – Aug 4, 1906	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Thompson	Articles of clerkship with a senior lawyer (1872)	Deputy Minister of Justice (Federal)
11	George Edwin King (1839–1901)	New Brunswick	Sep 21, 1893 – May 8, 1901	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Thompson	Articles of clerkship with a senior lawyer (1865)	Supreme Court of New Brunswick
12	Désiré Girouard (1836–1911)	Quebec	Sep 28, 1895 – Mar 22, 1911	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Bowell	McGill Law School (1860)	Member of Parliament for Jacques Cartier
13	Sir Louis Henry Davies (1845–1924)	Prince Edward Island	Sep 25, 1901 – May 1, 1924	Oct 23, 1918 – May 1, 1924	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd	Laurier (as puisne justice); Borden (as chief justice)	Inner Temple, London (1866)	Member of Parliament for West Queen's
14	David Mills (1831–1903)	Ontario	Feb 8, 1902 – May 8, 1903	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Laurier	University of Michigan (1867)	Minister of Justice (Canada) and Leader of the Government in the Senate
15	John Douglas Armour (1830–1903)	Ontario	Nov 21, 1902 – Jul 11, 1903	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Laurier	Articles of clerkship with a senior lawyer (1853)	Chief Justice of Ontario
16	Wallace Nesbitt (1858–1930)	Ontario	May 16, 1903 – Oct 3, 1905	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Laurier	Articles of clerkship with a senior lawyer (1881)	Lawyer
17	Albert Clements Killam (1849–1908)	Manitoba	Aug 8, 1903 – Feb 5, 1905	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Laurier	Articles of clerkship with a senior lawyer (1877)	Chief Justice of Manitoba
18	John Idington (1840–1928)	Ontario	Feb 10, 1905 – Mar 30, 1927	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Laurier	University of Toronto (1864)	High Court of Justice of Ontario
19	James Maclennan (1833–1915)	Ontario	Oct 5, 1905 – Feb 12, 1909	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Laurier	Articles of clerkship with a senior lawyer (1857)	Court of Appeal for Ontario
20	Sir Charles Fitzpatrick (1853–1942)	Quebec	Jun 4, 1906 – Oct 20, 1918	Jun 4, 1906 – Oct 20, 1918	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd	Laurier (directly as chief justice)	Université Laval, Faculté de droit (1876)	Minister of Justice (Canada)
21	Sir Lyman Duff (1865–1955)	British Columbia	Sep 27, 1906 – Jan 6, 1944	Mar 17, 1933 – Jan 6, 1944	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd	Laurier (as puisne justice); Bennett (as chief justice)	Osgoode Hall Law School	Supreme Court of British Columbia
22	Francis Alexander Anglin (1865–1933)	Ontario	Feb 23, 1909 – Feb 27, 1933	Sep 16, 1924 – Feb 27, 1933	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd	Laurier (as puisne justice); King (as chief justice)	The Law Society of Upper Canada (1888)	High Court of Justice of Ontario (Exchequer Division)
23	Louis-Philippe Brodeur (1862–1924)	Quebec	Aug 11, 1911 – Oct 9, 1923	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Laurier	Université Laval à Montréal, Faculté de droit (1884)	Minister of the Naval Service
24	Pierre-Basile Mignault (1854–1945)	Quebec	Oct 25, 1918 – Sep 30, 1929	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Borden	McGill Law School (1878)	Member of the International Joint Commission
25	Arthur Cyrille Albert Malouin (1857–1936)	Quebec	Jan 30, 1924 – Sep 30, 1924	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	King	Université Laval, Faculté de droit (1882)	Quebec Superior Court
26	Edmund Leslie Newcombe (1859–1931)	Nova Scotia	Sep 16, 1924 – Dec 9, 1931	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	King	University of Halifax (1881)	Deputy Minister of Justice (federal)
27	Thibaudeau Rinfret (1879–1962)	Quebec	Oct 1, 1924 – Jun 21, 1954	Jan 8, 1944 – Jun 21, 1954	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd	King (as puisne justice and later as chief justice)	Université Laval à Montréal and McGill Law School (1900)	Quebec Superior Court
28	John Henderson Lamont (1865–1936)	Saskatchewan	Apr 2, 1927 – Mar 10, 1936	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	King	University of Toronto Faculty of Law (1893)	Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan
29	Robert Smith (1858–1942)	Ontario	May 18, 1927 – Dec 6, 1933	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	King	Articles of clerkship with a senior lawyer (1885)	Supreme Court of Ontario (Appellate Division)
30	Lawrence Arthur Dumoulin Cannon (1877–1939)	Quebec	Jan 14, 1930 – Dec 25, 1939	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	King	Université Laval, Faculté de droit (1899)	Court of King's Bench for Quebec
31	Oswald Smith Crocket (1868–1945)	New Brunswick	Sep 21, 1932 – Apr 12, 1943	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Bennett	Articles of clerkship with a senior lawyer (1892)	Supreme Court of New Brunswick
32	Frank Joseph Hughes (1883–1967)	Ontario	Mar 17, 1933 – Feb 12, 1935	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Bennett	Osgoode Hall Law School (Law Society of Upper Canada) (1911)	Lawyer
33	Henry Hague Davis (1885–1944)	Ontario	Jan 31, 1935 – Jun 30, 1944	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Bennett	University of Toronto Faculty of Law (1911)	Court of Appeal for Ontario
34	Patrick Kerwin (1889–1963)	Ontario	Jul 20, 1935 – Feb 2, 1963	Jul 1, 1954 – Feb 2, 1963	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd	Bennett (as puisne justice); St. Laurent (as chief justice)	Osgoode Hall Law School (Law Society of Upper Canada) (1911)	High Court of Justice of Ontario
35	Albert Blellock Hudson (1875–1947)	Manitoba	Mar 24, 1936 – Jan 6, 1947	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	King	University of Manitoba, Faculty of Law (1898)	Lawyer
36	Robert Taschereau (1896–1970)	Quebec	Feb 9, 1940 – Aug 31, 1967	Apr 22, 1963 – Aug 31, 1967	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd	King (as puisne justice); Diefenbaker (as chief justice)	Université Laval, Faculté de droit) (1920)	Lawyer
37	Ivan Cleveland Rand (1884–1969)	New Brunswick	Apr 22, 1943 – Apr 26, 1959	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	King	Harvard Law School (1912)	Lawyer
38	Roy Lindsay Kellock (1893–1975)	Ontario	Oct 3, 1944 – Jan 14, 1958	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	King	—	Court of Appeal for Ontario
39	James Wilfred Estey (1889–1956)	Saskatchewan	Oct 6, 1944 – Jan 22, 1956	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	King	Harvard Law School (1915)	Attorney General of Saskatchewan
40	Charles Holland Locke (1887–1980)	British Columbia	Jun 3, 1947 – Sep 15, 1962	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	King	Articles of clerkship with a senior lawyer (1910)	Lawyer
41	John Robert Cartwright (1895–1979)	Ontario	Dec 22, 1949 – Mar 22, 1970	Sep 1, 1967 – Mar 22, 1970	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd	St. Laurent (as puisne justice); Pearson (as chief justice)	Osgoode Hall Law School (Law Society of Upper Canada) (1920)	Lawyer
42	Joseph Honoré Gérald Fauteux (1900–1980)	Quebec	Dec 22, 1949 – Dec 22, 1973	Mar 23, 1970 – Dec 22, 1973	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd	St. Laurent (as puisne justice); P. Trudeau (as chief justice)	Université de Montréal Faculty of Law (1925)	Quebec Superior Court
43	Douglas Charles Abbott (1899–1987)	Quebec	Jul 1, 1954 – Dec 22, 1973	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	St. Laurent	McGill Law School	Minister of Finance (federal)
44	Henry Grattan Nolan (1893–1957)	Alberta	Mar 1, 1956 – Jul 8, 1957	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	St. Laurent	Articles of clerkship with a senior lawyer (English and Alberta bars)	Lawyer
45	Ronald Martland (1909–1997)	Alberta	Jan 15, 1958 – Feb 9, 1982	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Diefenbaker	University of Alberta, University of Oxford (1928, 1931)	Lawyer
46	Wilfred Judson (1902–1980)	Ontario	Feb 5, 1958 – Jul 19, 1977	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Diefenbaker	Osgoode Hall Law School (Law Society of Upper Canada) (1932)	High Court of Justice of Ontario
47	Roland Almon Ritchie (1910–1988)	Nova Scotia	May 5, 1959 – Oct 30, 1984	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Diefenbaker	University of Oxford (1932)	Lawyer
48	Emmett Matthew Hall (1898–1995)	Saskatchewan	Nov 23, 1962 – Feb 28, 1973	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Diefenbaker	University of Saskatchewan College of Law (1919)	Chief Justice of Saskatchewan, Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan
49	Wishart Flett Spence (1904–1998)	Ontario	May 30, 1963 – Dec 28, 1978	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Pearson	Osgoode Hall Law School (Law Society of Upper Canada) (1928)	High Court of Justice of Ontario
50	Louis-Philippe Pigeon (1905–1986)	Quebec	Sep 21, 1967 – Feb 7, 1980	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Pearson	Université Laval, Faculté de droit (1928)	Lawyer
51	Bora Laskin (1912–1984)	Ontario	Mar 19, 1970 – Mar 26, 1984	Dec 27, 1973 – Mar 26, 1984	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd	P. Trudeau (as puisne justice and later as chief justice)	University of Toronto (1936) Harvard Law School (1937) Osgoode Hall Law School (Law Society of Upper Canada) (1937)	Court of Appeal for Ontario
52	Robert George Brian Dickson (1916–1998)	Manitoba	Mar 26, 1973 – Jun 29, 1990	Apr 18, 1984 – Jun 29, 1990	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd	P. Trudeau (as puisne justice and later as Chief Justice)	University of Manitoba Faculty of Law (1938)	Manitoba Court of Appeal
53	Jean Beetz (1927–1991)	Quebec	Jan 1, 1974 – Nov 9, 1988	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	P. Trudeau	Université de Montréal Faculty of Law (1950) Pembroke College, Oxford (1953)	Quebec Court of Appeal
54	Louis-Philippe de Grandpré (1917–2008)	Quebec	Jan 1, 1974 – Sep 30, 1977	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	P. Trudeau	McGill University Faculty of Law	President of the Canadian Bar Association
55	Willard Zebedee Estey (1919–2002)	Ontario	Sep 29, 1977 – Apr 21, 1988	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	P. Trudeau	University of Saskatchewan College of Law	Chief Justice of Ontario
56	Yves Pratte (1925–1988)	Quebec	Oct 1, 1977 – Jun 29, 1979	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	P. Trudeau	Université Laval (Faculté de droit (Université Laval)) and University of Toronto	Chairman of Air Canada
57	William Rogers McIntyre (1918–2009)	British Columbia	Jan 1, 1979 – Feb 14, 1989	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	P. Trudeau	University of Saskatchewan	British Columbia Court of Appeal
58	Julien Chouinard (1929–1987)	Quebec	Sep 24, 1979 – Feb 6, 1987	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Clark	Université Laval	Quebec Court of Appeal
59	Antonio Lamer (1933–2007)	Quebec	Mar 28, 1980 – Jan 6, 2000	Jul 1, 1990 – Jan 6, 2000	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd	P. Trudeau (as puisne justice); Mulroney (as chief justice)	Université de Montréal	Quebec Court of Appeal
60	Bertha Wilson (1923–2007)	Ontario	Mar 4, 1982 – Jan 3, 1991	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	P. Trudeau	Dalhousie Law School	Court of Appeal for Ontario
61	Gerald Eric Le Dain (1924–2007)	Ontario	May 29, 1984 – Nov 29, 1988	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	P. Trudeau	McGill University Faculty of Law	Federal Court of Appeal
62	Gérard La Forest (b. 1926)	New Brunswick	Jan 16, 1985 – Sep 29, 1997	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Mulroney	University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law and Yale Law School	New Brunswick Court of Appeal
63	Claire L'Heureux-Dubé (b. 1927)	Quebec	Apr 15, 1987 – Jun 30, 2002	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Mulroney	Université Laval (Faculté de droit (Université Laval))	Quebec Court of Appeal
64	John Sopinka (1933–1997)	Ontario	May 24, 1988 – Nov 24, 1997	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Mulroney	University of Toronto	Lawyer
65	Charles Gonthier (1928–2009)	Quebec	Feb 1, 1989 – Jul 31, 2003	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Mulroney	McGill University Faculty of Law	Quebec Court of Appeal
66	Peter Cory (b. 1925)	Ontario	Feb 1, 1989 – May 31, 1999	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Mulroney	Osgoode Hall Law School	Court of Appeal for Ontario
67	Beverley McLachlin (b. 1943)	British Columbia	Mar 30, 1989 – Dec 14, 2017	Jan 7, 2000 – Dec 14, 2017	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd	Mulroney (as puisne justice); Chrétien (as chief justice)	University of Alberta Faculty of Law	Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia
68	William Stevenson (b. 1934)	Alberta	Sep 17, 1990 – Jun 4, 1992	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Mulroney	University of Alberta Faculty of Law	Court of Appeal of Alberta Court of Appeal for the Northwest Territories
69	Frank Iacobucci (b. 1937)	Ontario	Jan 7, 1991 – Jun 30, 2004	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Mulroney	University of British Columbia and Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge	Chief Justice of the Federal Court
70	John C. Major (b. 1931)	Alberta	Nov 13, 1992 – Dec 24, 2005	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Mulroney	University of Toronto	Court of Appeal of Alberta
71	Michel Bastarache (b. 1947)	New Brunswick	Sep 30, 1997 – Jun 30, 2008	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Chrétien	University of Ottawa Faculty of Law	New Brunswick Court of Appeal
72	William Ian Corneil Binnie (b. 1939)	Ontario	Jan 8, 1998 – Oct 20, 2011	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Chrétien	Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge University of Toronto	Lawyer
73	Louise Arbour (b. 1947)	Ontario	Sep 15, 1999 – Jun 30, 2004	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Chrétien	Université de Montréal Faculty of Law University of Ottawa Faculty of Law	Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda
74	Louis LeBel (b. 1939)	Quebec	Jan 7, 2000 – Nov 29, 2014	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Chrétien	Université Laval University of Toronto	Quebec Court of Appeal
75	Marie Deschamps (b. 1952)	Quebec	Aug 7, 2002 – Aug 6, 2012	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Chrétien	Université de Montréal McGill University Faculty of Law	Quebec Court of Appeal
76	Morris J. Fish (b. 1938)	Quebec	Aug 5, 2003 – Aug 30, 2013	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Chrétien	McGill University Faculty of Law	Quebec Court of Appeal
77	Rosalie Abella (b. 1946)Template:Efn-ua	Ontario	Aug 30, 2004 – present	—	Template:AydTemplate:Efn-ua	Template:Ayd—	Martin	University of Toronto	Court of Appeal for Ontario
78	Louise Charron (b. 1951)	Ontario	Aug 30, 2004 – Aug 29, 2011	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd —	Martin	University of Ottawa Faculty of Law	Court of Appeal for Ontario
79	Marshall Rothstein (b. 1940)	Manitoba	Mar 1, 2006 – Aug 30, 2015	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Harper	University of Manitoba	Federal Court of Appeal
80	Thomas Cromwell (b. 1952)	Nova Scotia	Dec 22, 2008 – Aug 31, 2016	—	Template:Ayd	Template:Ayd—	Harper	Queen's University Faculty of Law University of Oxford	Nova Scotia Court of Appeal
81	Michael J. Moldaver (b. 1948)Template:Efn-ua	Ontario	Oct 21, 2011 – present	—	Template:AydTemplate:Efn-ua	Template:Ayd—	Harper	University of Toronto	Court of Appeal for Ontario

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