Nova Scotia Provincial Court (Historical)

This page was last substantively updated or reviewed August 2021. (Rev. # 80926)

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

Previous Judges

Name	Location	Duration	Appointed By	Prior Position(s)	Other Details
Corrine Sparks [1] [2]	Dartmouth	March 30, 1987 - Dec 31, 2021	PC (Buchanan/?)	Ruck and Mitchell (1981 to 1987) Called to bar (1981)	Published criminal decisions (~0)
Richard J. MacKinnon [3]	Antigonish	November 10, 2009	Dexter / Landry (NDP)	NS Public Prosecution Service Called to bar (1977)	Published criminal decisions (~1)
Jean M. Dewolfe [4]	Kentville	November 10, 2009	Dexter / Landry (NDP)	Muttart Tufts Dewolfe and Coyle (family) (1990 to 2009) Called to bar (1986)	Published criminal decisions (~0)
Frank P. Hoskins [5]	Dartmouth	September 5, 2008 August 2021	MacDonald / Clarke (PC)	NS Public Prosecution Service (1991 to 1995, 1996 to 2008) Private practice (1995 to 1996) Called to bar (1990)	Published criminal decisions (~27)
Brian D. Williston	Sydney	1995 (Judge) December 2018 (ret)	Liberal	NS Public Prosecution Service Called to bar (1974)	Published criminal decisions (~8) (as of December 2019)
S. Raymond Morse	Amherst	April 12, 2011 (Judge) November 10, 2015 (Assoc. Chief)	NDP	Private practice Called to bar (1978)	Published criminal decisions (~0) Appointed to NSSC (Family Division)
Samuel Moreau	Amherst	March 31, 2017 to 2020 Appointed to NSSC (Family Division)	Liberal	NS Legal Aid (1999 to 2017)	Published criminal decisions (~0)
Michelle Christenson [6]	Yarmouth	December 11, 2013 to March 2020 Appointed to NSSC (Family Division)	NDP	NS Public Prosecution Service Called to bar (1996)	Published criminal decisions (~0)
David J. Ryan		1997 to March 4, 2020			Published criminal decisions (~3)
Patrick Curran [7]	Halifax, Bedford	August 1, 1981 - 2003 (Judge) 2003 - 2013 (Chief Judge) 2013 - 2019 (39 years)	PC Buchanan	NS Legal Aid Halifax City Patterson, Smith, Matthews Innes, Matheson, Curran Called to bar (1970)	Published criminal decisions (~7)
D. William MacDonald [8]		1997 (Judge)		Deputy Minister to Premier (1993 to 1995) Deputy Attorney General (1987 to 1993, 1995 to 1996) Legislative Counsel Office (1975) Crown Attorney Hart and Davis (1968 to ??) Called to bar (1968)
Kenneth Crowell [9]		1975 to ?		Crowell, Durland & Gillis Called to bar (1954) Dal grad
Sandra Oxner	Halifax	1971 - 1996?	Liberal Regan	City of Halifax (1966 to 1971) Called to bar (1966)	Published criminal decisions (~0) Appointed at age 29 [10]
Judge Anne E. Crawford		2000? to 2009?			Published criminal decisions
Castor H Williams	Halifax			Crown Attorney Called to bar (1977)	Published criminal decisions (~55)
Pierre Muise	Yarmouth	2009 - 2010 (appointed to NSSC) (1 year)	PC	NS Public Prosecution Service (1996 to 2009)	Published criminal decisions (~0)
Judge R. Brian Gibson [11]	Dartmouth	1990 - ?	PC	Private Practice (1973 to 1990) Called to bar (1973)	Published criminal decisions (~19)
Anne S. Derrick [12]	Halifax	September 2, 2005 - 2017 (Appointed to NSCA) (12 years)	PC Hamm	Beaton Derrick Called to bar (1981)	Appointed to NSCA (2017) Published criminal decisions (~173)
Judge Jamie Campbell [13]	Halifax (Youth)	September 2, 2005 - ?? (appointed to NSSC)		Cox Hanson O'Reilly Matheson Called to bar (1982)	Published criminal decisions (~34)
Jean-Louis Batiot					Published criminal decisions (~22)
Robert M. Prince					Published criminal decisions (~0)
Roy Edward "Bud" Kimball [14] [15]	Windsor and Kentville	May 4, 1967 to 1995 (18 years)	PC	Private Practice (1960 to 1967)	Published criminal decisions
Clinton Roger Rand	Shelburne and Yarmouth	January 3, 1946 to June 30, 1976 (30 years)			Published criminal decisions
John Donald MacIntyre	Cape Breton	1951 to 1956 (5 years)			Published criminal decisions
William Ackley Richardson	New Glasgow, Stellarton, Pictou, and Tatamagouche	November 6, 1951 to November 30, 1968 (16 years)			Published criminal decisions
John Ferguson McDonald	Cape Breton	1953 to 1978			Published criminal decisions
Judge Duncan John Chisholm		October 1, 1953 to February, 1980			Published criminal decisions
Henry How (CJ)		November 1983 to ??			Published criminal decisions
Joseph Francis McManus		1953 to 1961			Published criminal decisions
Stanley D. Campbell
George "Hughes" Randall [16]	Halifax	1974 to 2002 (Judge) 2002 to 2012 (sup)		Hospital Commission Randall, McNeil and Church(1974) Paton, Paton and Randall(1969) Pace and MacIntosh (1962) Called to bar (1961) Dalhousie grad (1960)
Horace Blair Dickey
Bernard Wallace Russell	Halifax	November 3, 1938

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