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==Past Justices (1993 to present)==
{{seealso|Nova Scotia Supreme Court}}

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left"
|-
!align=left|Name
!align=left|Location
!align=left|Duration
!align=left|Appointed by
! class="unsortable"|Prior Position(s)
! Other Details
|-
|Justice Robert William Wright [https://web.archive.org/web/20020328092428/http://canada.justice.gc.ca:80/en/news/ja/1998/ns8.html] [https://courts.ns.ca/documents/NSSC_Justice_Wright_Retires_08_05_21.pdf]
|Halifax
|{{dts|June 30, 1998}}<br> August 2021 (ret)
|{{Chretien2}}
|Daley, Black & Moreira<br> Called to bar (1971)
| [https://www.canlii.org/en/ns/nssc/#search/type=decision&ccId=nssc&sort=decisionDate&text=honourable%20%2F4%20Robert%20%2F2%20Wright&id=R%20OR%20%22HMTQ%22%20OR%20%22Her%20Majesty%22%20OR%20%22The%20Queen%22&origType=decision&origCcId=nssc Published criminal decisions] (~60)

|-
|Justice Gerald R.P. Moir [https://web.archive.org/web/20011228011539/http://canada.justice.gc.ca:80/en/news/ja/1997/NS3.html] [https://www.courts.ns.ca/documents/NSSC_Justice_Moir_Retiring_06_29_2021.pdf]
|Halifax
|{{dts|March 19, 1997}} <br>2017 (sup)<br>June 29, 2021 (ret)
|{{Chretien1}}
| Burchell, MacDougall (1984 to 1997)<br>Federal Business Development Bank (1980 to 1984)<br>Weldo, Misener & Covert (1977 to 1980) <br>Called to bar (1977) <br>Dal grad
| [https://www.canlii.org/en/ns/nssc/#search/type=decision&ccId=nssc&sort=decisionDate&text=honourable%20%2F4%20Moir%20%2F2%20Gerald&id=R%20OR%20%22HMTQ%22%20OR%20%22Her%20Majesty%22%20OR%20%22The%20Queen%22&origType=decision&origCcId=nssc Published criminal decisions] (~29)
|-
|Justice Frank Campbell Edwards
|Sydney
|1993
|Chretien
|County Court (1993)<br>Crown attorney (? to 1993)
| [https://www.canlii.org/en/ns/nssc/#search/type=decision&ccId=nssc&sort=decisionDate&text=honourable%20%2F4%20Frank%20%2F2%20Edwards&id=R%20OR%20%22HMTQ%22%20OR%20%22Her%20Majesty%22%20OR%20%22The%20Queen%22&origType=decision&origCcId=nssc Published criminal decisions] (~50)
|-
|Justice M. Heather Robertson [https://web.archive.org/web/20020328092428/http://canada.justice.gc.ca:80/en/news/ja/1998/ns8.html]
|Halifax
|{{dts|June 30, 1998}}
|Chretien
|Chief of Staff to the Premier of Nova Scotia (1995)<br>Burchell, MacDougall (1986 to 1998)<br>Walker, Dunlop (1985 to 1986)<br> Called to bar (1975)
| [https://www.canlii.org/en/ns/nssc/#search/type=decision&ccId=nssc&sort=decisionDate&text=honourable%20%2F4%20Robertson%20%2F2%20Heather&id=R%20OR%20%22HMTQ%22%20OR%20%22Her%20Majesty%22%20OR%20%22The%20Queen%22&origType=decision&origCcId=nssc Published criminal decisions] (~70)
|-
|Justice Beryl A. MacDonald [https://web.archive.org/web/20090207234227/http://www.justice.gc.ca:80/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2005/doc_31416.html]
|Halifax
|March 24, 2005
|Martin
|Hicks, LeMoine
|-
|Justice John David Murphy [https://web.archive.org/web/20020416055150/http://canada.justice.gc.ca:80/en/news/ja/2001/doc_26022.html] [http://courts.ns.ca/News_of_Courts/JusticeMurphyObit.htm]
|Halifax
|{{dts|March 2, 2001}} 
|Chretien
|Stewart McKelvey<br>Called to bar (1974)
| [https://www.canlii.org/en/ns/nssc/#search/type=decision&ccId=nssc&sort=decisionDate&text=honourable%20%2F4%20Murphy%20%2F2%20John&id=R%20OR%20%22HMTQ%22%20OR%20%22Her%20Majesty%22%20OR%20%22The%20Queen%22&origType=decision&origCcId=nssc Published criminal decisions] (~30)
|-
| Chief Justice Joseph Phillip Kennedy [https://web.archive.org/web/20011114230412/http://canada.justice.gc.ca:80/en/news/ja/1997/ns4.html]
| Halifax
|{{dts|April 16, 1997}} (Judge) <br> 1998 (CJ)<br> May 1, 2019 (ret)<br>(22 years)
| Chretien (Judge)<br>Chretien (CJ)
|Supreme Court Justice (1997)<br>Chief Judge of Provincial Court (1993 to 1997)<br>Provincial Court Judge (1978 to 1993)<br> Kenney, Theakson, Kennedy & Allen (1969 to 1978)<br> Called to bar (1969)
| [https://www.canlii.org/en/ns/nssc/#search/type=decision&ccId=nssc&sort=decisionDate&text=honourable%20%2F4%20kennedy%20%2F2%20Joseph&id=R%20OR%20%22HMTQ%22%20OR%20%22Her%20Majesty%22%20OR%20%22The%20Queen%22&origType=decision&origCcId=nssc Published criminal decisions] (~45)
|-
|Justice Michael J. Wood [http://thechronicleherald.ca/metro/18716-wood-appointed-supreme-court-judge] [https://web.archive.org/web/20111210192013/http://www.justice.gc.ca:80/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2011/doc_32644.html]
|Halifax
|{{dts|October 3, 2011}} - April 17, 2019<br> (7.5 years)
|Harper
|Burchells LLP (1982 to 2011)<br>Called to bar (1982)
|[https://www.canlii.org/en/ns/nssc/#search/type=decision&ccId=nssc&sort=decisionDate&text=honourable%20%2F4%20wood&id=R%20OR%20%22HMTQ%22%20OR%20%22Her%20Majesty%22%20OR%20%22The%20Queen%22&origType=decision&origCcId=nssc Published criminal decisions] (~48)<br> Appointed to NSCA
|-
|Justice Suzanne M. Hood [https://web.archive.org/web/20011114223609/http://canada.justice.gc.ca:80/en/news/ja/1995/NS2.html] [https://web.archive.org/web/19971012094212/http://canada.justice.gc.ca/News/Nominations/1997/ns2808_en.html] [http://courts.ns.ca/News_of_Courts/JusticeHoodRetires.htm]
|Halifax
|{{dts|December 20, 1995}} (Judge)<br>December 18, 2013 (Sup.)<br> October 31, 2018 (ret.)<br> (24 years)
|Chretien
|City of Dartmouth (1993 to 1995)<br>Huestis, Holm (1977 to 1993) <br> Called to bar (1977)
| [https://www.canlii.org/en/ns/nssc/#search/type=decision&ccId=nssc&sort=decisionDate&text=honourable%20%2F4%20Suzanne%20%2F2%20Hood&id=R%20OR%20%22HMTQ%22%20OR%20%22Her%20Majesty%22%20OR%20%22The%20Queen%22&origType=decision&origCcId=nssc Published criminal decisions] (~27)
|-
| Justice Elizabeth Van den Eynden [http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2013/doc_32968.html][http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2015/doc_33096.html]  
|
|Oct 2, 2013 to February, 2015<br> (3 years)
|Harper
|
| appointed to NSCA (2015)<br>{{publishedNSSC|Eynden}} (~1)
|-
| Justice Arthur W D Pickup [http://www.courts.ns.ca/News_of_Courts/JusticePickupRetires.htm] [https://web.archive.org/web/20030420164534/http://canada.justice.gc.ca:80/en/news/ja/2002/doc_30782.html]
|Halifax
|December 11, 2002 to September 30, 2016<br> (15 years)
|Chrétien
|LeBlanc, MacDonald & Pickup (1975 to 2002)<br> Called to bar (1968)
| [https://www.canlii.org/en/ns/nssc/#search/type=decision&ccId=nssc&sort=decisionDate&text=honourable%20%2F4%20pickup&id=R%20OR%20%22HMTQ%22%20OR%20%22Her%20Majesty%22%20OR%20%22The%20Queen%22&origType=decision&origCcId=nssc Published criminal decisions] (~15)
|-
|Justice Linda Lee Oland  [https://web.archive.org/web/20030923004403/http://www.justice.gc.ca:80/en/news/ja/1998/ns7.html]
|
|1998 - 2000<br> (3 years)
|Chrétien
|McInnes, Cooper (1977 to 1998) <br>Called to bar (1977)
| appointed to NSCA (1998)<br>{{publishedNSSC|oland}} (~0)
|-
| Justice Joseph Michael MacDonald
|
|1995 - 2004 <br>(10 years)
|Chrétien
|Stewart McKelvey Sterling Scales LLP (1980 to 1995)<br> Called to bar (1979)
|appointed to Court of Appeal (2004)<br> [https://www.canlii.org/en/ns/nssc/#search/type=decision&ccId=nssc&sort=decisionDate&text=honourable%20%2F4%20michael%20%2F4%20macdonald&id=%22R.%20v.%22%20OR%20%22HMTQ%22%20OR%20%22Her%20Majesty%22%20OR%20%22The%20Queen%22&origType=decision&origCcId=nssc Published criminal decisions] (~47)
|-
| Justice Marlene Jill Hamilton [https://web.archive.org/web/20020520054111/http://canada.justice.gc.ca:80/en/news/ja/2001/doc_27822.html] 
|
|1995 - Oct 31, 2001<br> (7 years)
|Chrétien
|
| appointed to Court of Appeal<br> [https://www.canlii.org/en/ns/nssc/#search/type=decision&ccId=nssc&sort=decisionDate&text=honourable%20%2F4%20hamilton&id=R%20OR%20%22HMTQ%22%20OR%20%22Her%20Majesty%22%20OR%20%22The%20Queen%22&origType=decision&origCcId=nssc Published criminal decisions] (~1)
|-
| Justice John Edward Flinn
|
|1995 - 2002 <br>(8 years)
|Chrétien
|
|Appointed to NSCA<br> [https://www.canlii.org/en/ns/nssc/#search/type=decision&ccId=nssc&sort=decisionDate&text=honourable%20%2F4%20Flinn&id=R%20OR%20%22HMTQ%22%20OR%20%22Her%20Majesty%22%20OR%20%22The%20Queen%22&origType=decision&origCcId=nssc Published criminal decisions] (~0)
|-
| Justice Arthur Joseph LeBlanc [https://web.archive.org/web/20020225132208/http://canada.justice.gc.ca:80/en/news/ja/1998/ns7.html] [https://web.archive.org/web/20030923004403/http://www.justice.gc.ca:80/en/news/ja/1998/ns7.html]
|Halifax
|February 12, 1998 - 2017<br> (20 years)
|Chrétien
|LeBlanc, MacDonald<br>Called to bar (1968)
|appointed Lieutenant Governor (2017)<br> {{publishedNSSC|leblanc}} (~45)
|-
|Justice Duncan R. Beveridge [https://www.dal.ca/news/2008/03/06/judge.html] [https://web.archive.org/web/20090208001014/http://justice.gc.ca:80/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2008/doc_32232.html] 
|
|March 3, 2008 to 2009<br> (1 year)
|Harper
|Beveridge, MacPherson and Buckle (1994 to 2008)<br>MacInnes, Wilson, Flinn Wickwire (1989 to 1994)<br>Burke Beveridge (1984 to 1989)<br> Crown attorney (1980 to 1984)<br> Called to bar (1979)
|{{publishedNSSC|Beveridge}} (~12)
|-
|Justice Peter M.S. Bryson [https://web.archive.org/web/20090924035542/http://www.justice.gc.ca:80/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2009/doc_32417.html] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130513220038/http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2010/doc_32538.html]
|
|Sept 9, 2009 to August 11, 2010 <br>(1 year)
|Harper
|McInnes Cooper (1982 to 2009)<br> Called to bar (1982)
|{{publishedNSSC|Bryson}} (~5)
|-
|Justice David P.S. Farrar [https://web.archive.org/web/20090924035542/http://www.justice.gc.ca:80/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2009/doc_32417.html][https://web.archive.org/web/20130513220102/http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2010/doc_32478.html]
|
|Sept 9, 2009 to February 10, 2010<br> (1 year)
|Harper
|Stewart McKelvey Sterling Scales LLP (1987 to 2009) <br>Mockler Allen Dixon<br> Called to bar (1987)
|{{publishedNSSC|Farrar}} (~4)
|-
|Justice Cindy A. Bourgeois [http://courts.ns.ca/News_of_Courts/Bourgeois_appointment_NSCA.htm][https://web.archive.org/web/20090622193112/http://www.justice.gc.ca:80/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2009/doc_32393.html]
|
|2009 to June 22, 2014<br> (6 years)
|Harper
|Hicks, LeMoyne LLP (1992 to 2009)<br> Called to bar (1992)
|{{publishedNSSC|Bourgeois}} (~13)
|-
|}

==Past Justices (1980 to 1992)==
* County Court Eliminated in 1993
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left"
|-
!align=left|Name
!align=left|Duration
!align=left|Appointed by
! class="unsortable"|Prior Position(s)
! Other Details
|-
| Justice Felix A. Cacchione [http://www.courts.ns.ca/News_of_Courts/JusticeCacchioneRetires.htm]
| 1993 to Feb. 27, 2018
|Brian Mulroney
|County Court (June 12, 1986 to 1993)<br>Private Practice (criminal) <br>Nova Scotia Legal Aid<br>Called to bar (1975)
| {{publishedNSSC|Cacchione}} (~119)
|-
|Justice A. David MacAdam 
|{{dts|1992}} (Judge)<br>September 2007 (sup)<br> ? (retired)
|Mulroney
|
| [https://www.canlii.org/en/ns/nssc/#search/type=decision&ccId=nssc&sort=decisionDate&text=honourable%20%2F4%20david%20%2F2%20Macadam&id=R%20OR%20%22HMTQ%22%20OR%20%22Her%20Majesty%22%20OR%20%22The%20Queen%22&origType=decision&origCcId=nssc Published criminal decisions] (~40)
|-
|Justice Margaret Stewart
|{{dts|1992}} - ?
|Mulroney
|
| [https://www.canlii.org/en/ns/nssc/#search/type=decision&ccId=nssc&sort=decisionDate&text=honourable%20%2F4%20Stewart%20%2F2%20Margaret&id=R%20OR%20%22HMTQ%22%20OR%20%22Her%20Majesty%22%20OR%20%22The%20Queen%22&origType=decision&origCcId=nssc Published criminal decisions] (~15)
|-
| Justice Simon James MacDonald [http://www.courts.ns.ca/News_of_Courts/SimonMacDonaldRetires.htm] 
| Supreme Court Justice (January 30, 1993 to December 17, 2016)
|Brian Mulroney
|County Court Judge (November 18, 1982 to January 30, 1993)<br>NS Crown attorney<br>MacIntyre, MacDonald & Gillis<br>federal Department of Justice<br>Called to bar (1966)
| [https://www.canlii.org/en/ns/nssc/#search/type=decision&ccId=nssc&sort=decisionDate&text=honourable%20%2F4%20simon%20%2F4%20macdonald&id=R%20OR%20%22HMTQ%22%20OR%20%22Her%20Majesty%22%20OR%20%22The%20Queen%22&origType=decision&origCcId=nssc Published criminal decisions] (~17)
|-
| Justice Douglas Lawrence MacLennan 
|(1993 - ?)
|
|County Court (? to 1993)
|{{publishedNSSC|Maclennan}} (~0)
|-
| Justice Norman Robert Anderson 
|1993 - 1998
|
| County Court (? - 1993)
|{{publishedNSSC|Anderson}}
|-
| Justice John Hugh MacDonnell 
|1993 - 1995
|
|
|{{publishedNSSC|macdonnell}}
|-
| Justice Murray James Ryan  [https://www.trurodaily.com/news/regional/retired-north-sydney-judge-turns-100-281328/]
|1993 - 1994
|
|County Court (1982 to 1993)<br>Crown prosecutor<br>Solicitor for North Sydney<br>Ryan and Ryan
| {{publishedNSSC|ryan}} (~0)
|-
| Justice Ronald Newton Pugsley 
|1993 - 2000
|Brian Mulroney
|
| appointed to NSCA (2000)<br>{{publishedNSSC|Pugsley}}
|-
| Justice Jamie William Sutherland Saunders <br>(Appointed to Court of Appeal)
|1990 - 2015
|
|
| {{publishedNSSC|saunders}} (~31)
|-
| Justice Allan Paul Boudreau [http://www.courts.ns.ca/News_of_Courts/JusticeBourdreauRetires.htm]
|Supernumerary (2007 to October 31, 2016) <br>Supreme Court Justice(March 30, 1990 to 2007)
|
| Crawford, Boudreau & Khattar (1975 to March 30, 1990)
| [https://www.canlii.org/en/ns/nssc/#search/type=decision&ccId=nssc&sort=decisionDate&text=honourable%20%2F4%20allan%20%2F4%20boudreau&id=R%20OR%20%22HMTQ%22%20OR%20%22Her%20Majesty%22%20OR%20%22The%20Queen%22&origType=decision&origCcId=nssc Published criminal decisions]
|-
| Justice David William Gruchy [https://courts.ns.ca/News_of_Courts/JusticeGruchyObit.htm]
|1990 - 2007 (ret)
|{{Mulroney}}
| Burchell, MacDougall and Gruchy (1958 to 1990)<br>Truro town solicitor (19075 to 1990)<Br> Lorne MacDougall LLP<br> Called to bar (1958)<br>Dal grad
| {{publishedNSSC|Gruchy}} (~38)
|-
| Justice Walter Robert Evans Goodfellow 
|1990 - 2009
|Brian Mulroney
|
| {{publishedNSSC|goodfellow}}
|-
| Justice Ian Palmeter
| 1993 - 1997
|Brian Mulroney
|County Court (1985 - 1993)
| {{publishedNSSC|palmeter}} (~4)
|-
| Justice Donald MacKinnon Hall 
|  (1993 - 2006)
|Brian Mulroney
|County (1982 to 1993)
| {{publishedNSSC|Hall}}
|-
| Justice Gerald B Freeman  
|(County: 1988 to 1990) (1990 - 1993)
|Brian Mulroney
|
|appointed to the Court of Appeal (1993)<br>{{publishedNSSC|freeman}}
|-
| Justice Elizabeth Ann MacKinnon Roscoe
|1989 to 1992
|Brian Mulroney
|
|Appointed to Court of Appeal (1992)<br>{{publishedNSSC|Roscoe}} (~3)
|-
| Justice David Ritchie Chipman 
|1987 to 2000
|Brian Mulroney
|
| [https://www.canlii.org/en/ns/nssc/#search/type=decision&ccId=nssc&sort=decisionDate&text=honourable%20%2F4%20david%20%2F4%20chipman&id=%22R.%20v.%22%20OR%20%22HMTQ%22%20OR%20%22Her%20Majesty%22%20OR%20%22The%20Queen%22&origType=decision&origCcId=nssc Published criminal decisions]
|-
| Justice John McNab Davison 
|1987 - 2008
|Brian Mulroney
|
|
|-
| Justice Gordon Alfred Tidman 
|1985 - 2007
|Brian Mulroney
|
|{{publishedNSSC|Tidman}} (~15)
|-
| Justice Francis Bernard William Kelly 
|1985 - 2009
|Brian Mulroney
|
|{{publishedNSSC|kelly}}
|-
| Justice Kenneth McNeill Matthews 
|1985 - 1997
| Brian Mulroney
|
|{{publishedNSSC|Matthews}}
|-
| Justice Robert Buckley MacDonald 
|1985 - 1995
|Brian Mulroney
|
| [https://www.canlii.org/en/ns/nssc/#search/type=decision&ccId=nssc&sort=decisionDate&text=honourable%20%2F4%20roberts%20%2F4%20macdonald&id=%22R.%20v.%22%20OR%20%22HMTQ%22%20OR%20%22Her%20Majesty%22%20OR%20%22The%20Queen%22&origType=decision&origCcId=nssc Published criminal decisions]
|-
| Justice Hilroy Selig Nathanson 
|1982 - 2007
|P. Trudeau
|
|{{publishedNSSC|Nathanson}}
|-
| Justice Daniel Merlin Nunn [https://web.archive.org/web/20020328092428/http://canada.justice.gc.ca:80/en/news/ja/1998/ns8.html]
|1982 - 2005
|P. Trudeau
|
|{{publishedNSSC|Nunn}}
|-
| Justice Lorne Otis Clarke  
|1981 - 1997
|P. Trudeau
|
| Appointed to Court of Appeal (1997)<br>{{publishedNSSC|clarke}}
|-
|Justice Roderick MacLeod Rogers 
|1981 - 1998
|P. Trudeau
|
|{{publishedNSSC|Rogers}}
|-
| Justice J. Edward Scanlan 
|1993 - 2015
|
|
|appointed to Court of Appeal (2015)<br> [https://www.canlii.org/en/ns/nssc/#search/type=decision&ccId=nssc&sort=decisionDate&text=honourable%20%2F4%20Scanlan&id=R%20OR%20%22HMTQ%22%20OR%20%22Her%20Majesty%22%20OR%20%22The%20Queen%22&origType=decision&origCcId=nssc Published criminal decisions]
|-
| Justice Hiram Joseph Carver 
|(1993 - 2005)
|
|County Court (? to 1993)
| {{publishedNSSC|carver}}
|-
| Justice Nancy Jean Bateman 
|1993 - 1995 
|
|County Court (? to 1993)
|appointed to Court of Appeal (1995)<br>
{{publishedNSSC|bateman}}
|-
| Justice Charles Edward Haliburton [http://www.courts.ns.ca/News_of_Courts/haliburton_retires.htm] 
|January 1993 to 2013
|
|County Court (1986 to 1993)<br> Eric Kinsman (1962 to 1986)<br> Member of Parliament (1972 to 1974, 1979 to 1980)
| {{publishedNSSC|Haliburton}} (~37)
|}

==Previous Justices (pre-1980)==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left"
|-
!align=left|Name
!align=left|Duration
!align=left|Appointed by
!align=left|Other Details
|-
|Justice Charles Denne Burchell
| 1979 - 1989
|
|
|-
| Justice Kenneth Peter Richard 
|1978 - ?
|
|
|-
| Justice Leonard Lawson Pace]]
|1978 - 1990
|
|
|-
| Justice Constance Rachelle Glube 
|1977 - 1998
|
|appointed to Court of Appeal
|-
| Justice James Doane Hallett
|1977 - 1990
|
|appointed to Court of Appeal
|-
| Justice William Johnston Grant 
|1977 - 1995
|
|appointed to Court of Appeal
|-
|Justice Angus Lewis Macdonald
|1973 - 1992
|
|
|-
| Justice Alexander Murdoch Macintosh 
|1973 - 1991
|
|
|-
| Justice Ian Malcolm MacKeigan 
|1973 - 1990
|
|
|-
| Justice Vincent Alan James Morrison 
|1973 - 1987
|
|
|-
| Justice Malachi Cornelius Hubert Jones
|1970 - 1979
|
|appointed to Court of Appeal
|-
| Justice Gordon Leavitt Shaw Hart  
|1968 - 1999
|
|
|-
| Justice Donald Joseph Gillis 
|1968 - 1973
|
|
|-
| Justice Arthur Gordon Cooper 
|1968 - 1983
|
|
|-
| Justice Justin Louis Dubisky  
|1967 - 1976
|
|
|-
| Justice Gordon Stewart Cowan  
|1966 - 1981
|
|
|-
| Justice Alexander Hugh McKinnon 
|1966 - 1973
|
|
|-
| Justice Ronald Manning Fielding  
|1965 - 1972
|
|
|-
| Justice Vincent Joseph Pottier 
|1965 - 1970
|
|
|-
| Justice Thomas Herbert Coffin  
|1961 - 1981
|
|
|-
| Justice Frederick William Bissett  
|1961 - 1977
|
|
|-
| Justice Frank Harris Patterson  
|1958 - 1965
|
|
|-
| Justice Vincent Christopher MacDonald 
|1950 - 1964
|
|
|-
| Justice Lauchlin Daniel Currie   
|1949 - 1968
|
|
|-
| Justice James Lorimer llsley  
|1949 - 1967
|
|
|-
| Justice Eugene Troop Parker  
|1948 - 1961
|
|
|-
| Justice Josiah H. MacQuarrie 
|1947 - 1968
|
|
|-
| Justice John Stanley Smiley  
|1938 - 1945
|
|
|}

==Past family division justices==
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Name
! Duration 
! Appointed by
! Prior Position(s)
|-
| Justice M. Clare MacLellan [http://www.courts.ns.ca/News_of_Courts/JusticeMacLellanRetires.htm]
|
|
|Provincial Court Judge (1995 to 1998) and Supreme Court Family Division (1998 to 2017)
|-
|Justice Douglas C. Campbell [http://www.courts.ns.ca/News_of_Courts/JusticeCampbellRetires.htm]
|
|
| Family Division, Halifax (March 30, 1999 to May 31, 2016)<br> Cox Hansen O'Reilly Matheson (1971 to March 30, 1999)
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|J. Vernon MacDonald [https://web.archive.org/web/20030923004743/http://www.justice.gc.ca:80/en/news/ja/1999/ns0324.html]  
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|Justice Deborah Gass
|{{dts|March 24, 1999}} - 2018
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|Executive Director of the Penitentiary Legal Services (1979 to 1991)<br>Wright, Chivers & Co (1977)<br>Called to bar (1977)
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