Provincial Court of Newfoundland and Labrador

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(~X) = approximate number of published decisions according to CanLII as of Oct 2018, unless otherwise indicated.

Current Judges

Name	Location	Date Appointed	Appointed By	Prior Position(s)	Other Details
Chief Judge Robin Fowler [1]	Grand Falls-Windsor	August 7, 2017	Liberal	Crown Attorney (2000 to 2013) Public Prosecution Service of Canada (2013 to 2017)	Published criminal decisions (~1)
Associate Chief Judge Jennifer Mercer		July 16, 2021
Kymil Howe	Corner Brook	March 11, 1993	Liberal	Crown attorney private practice	Published criminal decisions (~2)
David Orr	St. John's	August 25, 1994	Liberal	Noonan, Oakley, Orr (criminal) Queen’s grad (1980)	Published criminal decisions (~51)
Wayne Gorman [2]	Corner Brook	November 9, 2000	PC	Director of Public Prosecutions Crown counsel Called to bar (1983)	Published criminal decisions (~250)
Harold Porter [3]	Grand Bank	October 12, 2001	Liberal	Crown attorney (1988 to 2001)	Published criminal decisions (~70)
Bruce Short [4]	Habour Grace	November 1, 2003	Liberal	Legal aid	Published criminal decisions (~0)
Wynne Anne Trahey [5]	Wabush	June 8, 2007	PC	Crown attorney Marshall, White, Ottenheimer & Green Collins and Associates Lewis, Day, Cook, Dawe & Eaton Called to bar (1982)	Published criminal decisions (~1)
D. Mark Pike [6]	St. John's	November 17, 2008	PC	Department of Justice Benson Myles PLC	Published criminal decisions (~15)
Jacqueline Jenkins [7]	Gander	September 24, 2008	PC	Private practice	Published criminal decisions (~2)
Jacqueline Brazil [8] [9]	St. John's	February 4, 2010	PC	Crown Lawyer	Published criminal decisions (~3)
Lois Skanes [10]	St.John's	February 15, 2010	PC	Private practice Called to bar (1985)	Published criminal decisions (~22)
Pamela Goulding [11] [12]	St. John's	January 30, 2012 (J) September 28, 2015(CJ)	PC	Director of Public Prosecutions	Published criminal decisions (~25)
James G. Walsh [13]	St.John's	September 3, 2012	PC	Private practice (criminal) Called to bar (1985)	Published criminal decisions
Lori A. Marshall [14]	St. John's	August 13, 2012	PC	Legal Aid (2008 to 2012) sole practitioner Called to bar (1991)	Published criminal decisions (~21)
Phyllis Harris [15]	Happy Valley-Goose Bay	June 10, 2014	PC	Public Prosecutions Office (1999 to 2014)	Published criminal decisions (~0)
Lynn E. Cole [16] [17]	Stephenville	March 13, 2014	PC	Lawyer with Legal Aid Called to bar (1991)	Published criminal decisions (~0)
Mark T. Linehan [18] [19]	Gander	March 4, 2014	PC	Crown prosecutor Called to bar (1996)	Published criminal decisions (~14)
Paul Noble [20]	Clarenville	September 17, 2015	PC	Dept of Justice RCMP	Published criminal decisions (~0)
Kari Ann Pike [21]	Happy Valley-Goose Bay	August 7, 2017	Liberal	Crown attorney	Published criminal decisions (~0)
Rolf Pritchard [22]	Happy Valley-Goose Bay	June 13, 2019	Liberal	provincial government (2001 to 2019) private practice Called to bar (1996)	Published criminal decisions (~0)

Part time or Per Diem

Name	Location	Date Appointed	Appointed By	Prior Position(s)	Other Details
Colin J. Flynn [23]	St. John's	April 30, 2001	Liberal	Director of Public Prosecutions Department of Justice (Criminal)	Published criminal decisions (~1)
Michael Madden [24] [25] [26]	St. John's	February 3, 2010(J) 2015 (ACJ)	PC	Crown prosecutor	Published criminal decisions (~0)
Gregory O. Brown (Per Diem)		February 28, 1992 April 30, 2013(per diem)	Liberal		Published criminal decisions (~2)
William English [27] (Per Diem)		November 9, 2000 May 2, 2014 (per diem)	Liberal	Director of NL Legal Aid Called to bar (1976)	Published criminal decisions (~3)
Judge John Joy [28]		August 1, 2006 July 28, 2017 (per diem)	PC	White, Ottenheimer and Baker	Published criminal decisions (~6)
Judge Patrick J.B. Kennedy [29]		April 11, 2001 May 9, 2014 (per diem)	Liberal	Private Practice	Published criminal decisions (~32)

Previous Judges

Name	Location	Date Appointed	Appointed By	Prior Position(s)	Other Details
Laura A. Mennie [30]		February 1, 2012	PC		Published criminal decisions(~15)
David Peddle [31]		December 1974 (Maj) Dec 1979 (Judge)			Published criminal decisions Appointed to NLSC (1988)

External links

• The Provincial Court of Newfoundland and Labrador website
• list of current judges
• government announcements

Court Membership
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