Supreme Court of Canada
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Current Justices
# | Name | Service duration | Appointed on advice of |
Prior position |
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83 | Richard Wagner | Oct 5, 2012 – present Dec 18, 2017 – present (CJ) |
Harper (Judge) J. Trudeau (CJ) |
Quebec Court of Appeal |
77 | Rosalie Abella | Aug 30, 2004 – present |
Martin | Court of Appeal for Ontario |
82 | Andromache Karakatsanis | Oct 21, 2011 – present |
Harper | Court of Appeal for Ontario |
84 | Clément Gascon | Jun 9, 2014 – present |
Harper | Quebec Court of Appeal |
85 | Suzanne Côté | Dec 1, 2014 – present |
Harper | Lawyer |
86 | Russell Brown | Aug 31, 2015 – present |
Harper | Court of Appeal of Alberta |
87 | Malcolm Rowe | Oct 28, 2016 – present |
J. Trudeau | Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador (Court of Appeal) |
88 | Sheilah Martin | 18 December 2017 to present | J. Trudeau | Court of Appeal of Alberta Court of Appeal for the Northwest Territories Court of Appeal of Nunavut |
81 | Michael J. Moldaver | 21 October 2011 to present | Harper | Court of Appeal for Ontario |
89 | Nicholas Kasirer [1] | J. Trudeau | Quebec Court of Appeal |
Past Justices
# | Name | Service duration | Appointed on advice of |
Prior position |
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1 | William Buell Richards | Sep 30, 1875 – Jan 10, 1879 | Mackenzie (CJ) | Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for Canada West |
2 | William Johnstone Ritchie | Sep 30, 1875 – Sep 25, 1892 Jan 11, 1879 – Sep 25, 1892 (Chief) |
Mackenzie (Judge); Macdonald (Chief) |
Chief Justice of New Brunswick |
3 | Samuel Henry Strong | Sep 30, 1875 – Nov 17, 1902 (Judge) Dec 13, 1892 – Nov 17, 1902 (CJ) |
Mackenzie (Judge) Thompson (CJ) |
Ontario Court of Error & Appeal |
57 | William Rogers McIntyre | Jan 1, 1979 – Feb 14, 1989 | P. Trudeau | British Columbia Court of Appeal |
58 | Julien Chouinard | Sep 24, 1979 – Feb 6, 1987 | Clark | Quebec Court of Appeal |
59 | Antonio Lamer | Mar 28, 1980 – Jan 6, 2000 (Judge) Jul 1, 1990 – Jan 6, 2000 (CJ) |
P. Trudeau (Judge) Mulroney (CJ) |
Quebec Court of Appeal |
60 | Bertha Wilson | Mar 4, 1982 – Jan 3, 1991 | P. Trudeau | Court of Appeal for Ontario |
61 | [Gerald Eric Le Dain | May 29, 1984 – Nov 29, 1988 |
P. Trudeau | Federal Court of Appeal |
62 | Gérard La Forest | Jan 16, 1985 – Sep 29, 1997 | Mulroney | New Brunswick Court of Appeal |
63 | Claire L'Heureux-Dubé | Apr 15, 1987 – Jun 30, 2002 | Mulroney | Quebec Court of Appeal |
64 | John Sopinka | May 24, 1988 – Nov 24, 1997 | Mulroney | Lawyer |
65 | Charles Gonthier | Feb 1, 1989 – Jul 31, 2003 | Mulroney | Quebec Court of Appeal |
66 | Peter Cory | Feb 1, 1989 – May 31, 1999 | Mulroney | Court of Appeal for Ontario |
67 | Beverley McLachlin | Mar 30, 1989 – Dec 14, 2017 (Judge) Jan 7, 2000 – Dec 14, 2017 (CJ) |
Mulroney (Judge) Chrétien (CJ) |
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia |
68 | William Stevenson | Sep 17, 1990 – Jun 4, 1992 | Mulroney | Court of Appeal of Alberta Court of Appeal for the Northwest Territories |
69 | Frank Iacobucci | Jan 7, 1991 – Jun 30, 2004 |
Mulroney | Chief Justice of the Federal Court |
70 | John C. Major | Nov 13, 1992 – Dec 24, 2005 |
Mulroney | Court of Appeal of Alberta |
71 | Michel Bastarache | Sep 30, 1997 – Jun 30, 2008 | Chrétien | New Brunswick Court of Appeal |
72 | William Ian Corneil Binnie | Jan 8, 1998 – Oct 20, 2011 | Chrétien | Lawyer |
73 | Louise Arbour | Sep 15, 1999 – Jun 30, 2004 | Chrétien | Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda |
74 | Louis LeBel | Jan 7, 2000 – Nov 29, 2014 | Chrétien | Quebec Court of Appeal |
75 | Marie Deschamps | Aug 7, 2002 – Aug 6, 2012 |
Chrétien | Quebec Court of Appeal |
76 | Morris J. Fish | Aug 5, 2003 – Aug 30, 2013 | Chrétien | Quebec Court of Appeal |
78 | Louise Charron | Aug 30, 2004 – Aug 29, 2011 |
Martin | Court of Appeal for Ontario |
79 | Marshall Rothstein | Mar 1, 2006 – Aug 30, 2015 |
Harper | Federal Court of Appeal |
80 | Thomas Cromwell | Dec 22, 2008 – Aug 31, 2016 |
Harper | Nova Scotia Court of Appeal |