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==Past judges==
{{seealso|Nova Scotia Court of Appeal}}
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Name
! Duration
! Nominated By
! class="unsortable"|Prior Position(s)
! Other Details
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|Justice Jamie W. S. Saunders<ref>{{cite news |title=NOVA SCOTIA JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020420140034/http://canada.justice.gc.ca:80/en/news/ja/2000/doc_25462.html |accessdate=8 August 2018 |agency=Dept of Justice}}</ref>
|2000 (Judge)<br> December 12, 2014 (Sup.)
|Chretien
|Supreme Court (1990 to 2000) <br>Private practice (criminal) <br>Called to bar (1974)
|{{publishedNSCA|Saunders}}
|-
|Justice Linda L. Oland [https://web.archive.org/web/20020420140034/http://canada.justice.gc.ca:80/en/news/ja/2000/doc_25462.html] 
|{{dts|July 28, 2000}} (Judge)<br>April 2020 (ret)
|Chretien
|Supreme court (1998 to 2000)<br> McInnes Cooper<br> Called to bar (1977)
|{{publishedNSCA|Oland}}
|-
| Chief Justice Joseph Michael MacDonald
| 2004 (Chief Justice)<br>January 1, 2019 (Ret)
| Martin
|Associate Chief Justice of NSSC (1997 to 2004)<br>Supreme Court (1995 to 2004)<br> Stewart McKelvey Sterling Scales LLP (1980 to 1995)<br> Called to bar (1980)
|[https://www.canlii.org/en/ns/nsca/#search/type=decision&ccId=nsca&sort=decisionDate&text=%22C.J.N.S.%22%20%2F2%20macdonald&id=R%20OR%20%22HMTQ%22%20OR%20%22Her%20Majesty%22%20OR%20%22The%20Queen%22&origType=decision&origCcId=nsca Published criminal decisions]
|-
| Chief Justice Constance Glube
|1998 - 2005
|Chrétien
|
| {{publishedNSCA|Glube}}
|-
| Justice Gerald Freeman 
|(1998 - 2006)
|Chrétien
|
|{{publishedNSCA|Freeman}}
|-
|Justice Thomas Cromwell [https://web.archive.org/web/20011201221121/http://canada.justice.gc.ca:80/en/news/ja/1997/ns2808.html] [https://web.archive.org/web/19971012094212/http://canada.justice.gc.ca:80/News/Nominations/1997/ns2808_en.html]
|(1997 - 2008)
|Chrétien
|Professor at Dalhousie University(1982 to 1992, 1995 to 1997)<br>Private practice(1979 to 1982)<br>Called to bar (1979)
|{{publishedNSCA|Cromwell}}
|-
| Nancy J. Bateman 
|(1995 - 2010)
|Chrétien
|
|{{publishedNSCA|Bateman}}
|-
| Edward John Flinn 
| 1995 - 2002
| Chrétien
|
|{{publishedNSCA|Flinn}}
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| Ronald Newton Pugsley 
|1993 - 2000
|
|
|{{PublishedNSCA|Pugsley}}
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| Elizabeth Ann Roscoe 
|(1992 - 2010)
|Mulroney
|Provincial Court
|{{publishedNSCA|Roscoe}}
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| J. Doane Hallett 
|(1990 - 1997)
|Mulroney
|
|{{publishedNSCA|Hallett}}
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| David Ritchie Chipman 
|(1987 - 2000)
|Mulroney
|
|{{publishedNSCA|Chipman}}
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| Kenneth McNeill Matthews 
|(1985 - 1997)
|Mulroney
|
|{{publishedNSCA|Matthews}}
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| Lorne Otis Clarke 
|1985 - 1997
|Mulroney
|
|{{publishedNSCA|Clarke}}
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| Vincent A.J. Morrison 
|1982 - 1987
|P. Trudeau
|
|{{publishedNSCA|Morrison}}
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| Justice Leonard Lawson Pace 
|(1978 - 1990)
|P. Trudeau
| Attorney General, minister of labour, minister of highways, and minister of mines (1974 to 1978)
|{{publishedNSCA|Pace}}
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| Humphrey Mellish || || || || 
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|James W Longley [http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/longley_james_wilberforce_15E.html]|| || || || 
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|Harris|| || || ||
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|Charles Townshend|| || || || 
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|E.J. Graham || || || || 
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|Russell  || || || || 
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| Robert Linton Weatherbe  || || || || 
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| Arthur Drysdale || || || || 
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| Nicholas Meagher|| || || || 
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| William Johnstone Ritchie || || || || 
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| Charles Morris || || || ||
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| Jonathan Belcher || || || ||
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| Lauchlin Daniel Currie || || || ||
|}

==Chief Justice of Nova Scotia==
The Chief Justice of Nova Scotia is the highest position in the Nova Scotia judiciary. Since the creation of the Court of Appeal, this title is held by the Chief Justice of the Court of Appeal. Prior to that the title was held by the Chief Justice of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court Appeal Division (1966–1993) or the Supreme Court (before 1966). For completeness the list includes Chief Justices of Cape Breton Island, which merged with Nova Scotia in 1820.


;Chief Justices of Cape Breton Island
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|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Name
! Duration
! Nominated By
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|William Smith 
|1798 - ?
|
|-
| William Woodfall 
|1803 - ?
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| Archibald Charles Dodd 
|1806 - 1820
|
|}

;Chief Justices of Nova Scotia
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Name
! Duration
! Nominated By
|-
| Jonathan Belcher || 1754 - 1776 ||
|-
| Charles Morris || 1776 - 1778 ||
|-
|Bryan Finucane || 1778 - 1785<ref>Barry Cahill, “The Career of Chief Justice Bryan Finucane,” Nova Scotia Historical Society Collections, vol. 42 (1986), pp. 153-69.</ref> ||
|-
| Isaac Deschamps|| 1785 - 1788 ||
|-
| Jeremy Pemberton|| 1788 - 1789<ref>Sir Joseph Chisholm, "Three Justices of Nova Scotia";  Hon. Charles Morris (1711-81), Hon. Jeremy Pemberton (1741-90), and Hon. Sampson Salter Blowers (1743-1842); Nova Scotia Historical Society, Vol. #28 (1949):by #28 (1949); pp. 10. Note. Pemberton's portrait hangs in the Nova Scotia Courts</ref>||
|-
| Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange || 1789 – 1797 ||
|-
| Sampson Salter Blowers||  1797 - 1833||
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| Sir Brenton Halliburton || 1833 - 1860||
|-
| William Young||  1860 - 1881||
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| James McDonald||  1881 – 1905||
|-
| Robert Linton Weatherbe || 1905 - 1907||
|-
|Sir Charles James Townshend || 1907 - 1915||
|-
| Wallace Nesbit Graham || 1915 - 1917 ||
|-
| Robert Edward Harris||  (1918 - 1931||
|-
| Sir Joseph Andrew Chisholm || 1931 - 1950||
|-
| James Lorimer Ilsley||  1950 - 1967||
|-
| Lauchlin Daniel Currie||  1967 - 1968||
|-
| Alexander H. McKinnon||  1968 - 1973 ||
|-
| Ian Malcolm MacKeigan || 1973 - 1985 ||
|-
| Lorne Clarke||  1985 - 1998 ||
|}

;Chief Justices of the Court of Appeal
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Name
! Duration
! Nominated By
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| Constance Glube ||1998 - 2004 ||
|-
| J. Michael MacDonald ||2005–present||
|}

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