Supreme Court of Canada (Historical)
Past Justices
| # | Name | Service duration | Appointed on advice of |
Prior position | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 84 | Clément Gascon | Jun 9, 2014 – 2019 |
Harper | Quebec Court of Appeal Superior Court (2002 to 2012) Heenan Blaikie McGill grad (1981) | |
| 80 | Thomas Cromwell | Dec 22, 2008 – Aug 31, 2016 |
Harper | Nova Scotia Court of Appeal | |
| 79 | Marshall Rothstein | Mar 1, 2006 – Aug 30, 2015 |
Harper | Federal Court of Appeal | |
| 78 | Louise Charron | Aug 30, 2004 – Aug 29, 2011 |
Martin | Court of Appeal for Ontario | |
| 76 | Morris J. Fish | Aug 5, 2003 – Aug 30, 2013 | Chrétien | Quebec Court of Appeal (1989 to 2003) Cohen, Leithman, Kaufman, Yarosky & Fish (1967 to 1989) McGill grad (1962) | |
| 74 | Louis LeBel | Jan 7, 2000 – Nov 29, 2014 | Chrétien | Quebec Court of Appeal (1984 to 2000) private practice (labour) (1962 to 1984) Called to bar (1962) Laval grad (1962) decisions as counsel | |
| 75 | Marie Deschamps | Aug 7, 2002 – Aug 6, 2012 |
Chrétien | Quebec Court of Appeal | |
| 73 | Louise Arbour | Sep 15, 1999 – Jun 30, 2004 | Chrétien | Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda Court of Appeal for Ontario (1990 to 1999) Osgoode Law Prof (1974 to 1987) Law Reform Commission of Canada (1972 to 1973) Called to bar (1971) | |
| 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 Gagné, Prévost, Flynn Called to bar (1953) | |
| 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 (1975 to 1984) Osgoode law prof (1967 to 1972) | |
| 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 (1981 to 1989) Superior Court (1974 to 1981) Holden, Murdoch (1950 to 1974) Called to bar (1950) | |
| 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 | McCarthy Tétrault (1986 to 1998) Assoc. Deputy Minister of Justice (1982 to 1986) Wright & McTaggart (1967 to 1982) Called to bar (1967) | |
| Yves Pratte 1977-10-01 1979-06-29 | |||||
| Willard Zebedee Estey 1977-09-29 1988-04-21 | |||||
| Jean Beetz 1974-01-01 1988-11-09 | |||||
| Louis-Philippe de Grandpré 1974-01-01 1977-09-30 | |||||
| Robert George Brian Dickson 1973-03-26 1984-04-18 Footnote1 | |||||
| Bora Laskin 1970-03-19 1973-12-27 Footnote1 | |||||
| Louis-Philippe Pigeon 1967-09-21 1980-02-07 | |||||
| Wishart Flett Spence 1963-05-30 1978-12-28 | |||||
| Emmett Matthew Hall 1962-11-23 1973-02-28 | |||||
| Roland Almon Ritchie 1959-05-05 1984-10-30 | |||||
| Wilfred Judson 1958-02-05 1977-07-19 | |||||
| Ronald Martland 1958-01-15 1982-02-09 | |||||
| Henry Grattan Nolan 1956-03-01 1957-07-08 | |||||
| Douglas Charles Abbott 1954-07-01 1973-12-22 | |||||
| John Robert Cartwright 1949-12-22 1967-09-01 Footnote1 | |||||
| Joseph Honoré Gérald Fauteux 1949-12-22 1970-03-23 Footnote1 | |||||
| Charles Holland Locke 1947-06-03 1962-09-15 | |||||
| James Wilfred Estey 1944-10-06 1956-01-22 | |||||
| Roy Lindsay Kellock 1944-10-03 1958-01-14 | |||||
| 37 | Ivan Cleveland Rand (1884–1969) |
Apr 22, 1943 – Apr 26, 1959 |
King | Harvard Law School (1912) Lawyer articles | |
| Robert Taschereau 1940-02-09 1963-04-22 Footnote1 | |||||
| Albert Blellock Hudson 1936-03-24 1947-01-06 | |||||
| Patrick Kerwin 1935-07-20 1954-07-01 Footnote1 | |||||
| Henry Hague Davis | |||||
| 9 | Christopher Salmon Patterson (1823–1893) |
Oct 27, 1888 – Jul 24, 1893 |
Macdonald | Ontario Court of Error & Appeal | |
| 8 | John Wellington Gwynne (1814–1902) |
Ontario | Jan 14, 1879 – Jan 7, 1902 |
Macdonald | Articles of clerkship with a senior lawyer (1837) Ontario Court of Error & Appeal |
| 7 | Henri-Elzéar Taschereau (1836–1911) |
Oct 7, 1878 – May 1, 1906 |
Mackenzie (as puisne justice); Laurier (as chief justice) |
Quebec Superior Court | |
| 6 | William Alexander Henry (1816–1888) |
Sep 30, 1875 – May 3, 1888 | Mackenzie | Lawyer | |
| 5 | Télesphore Fournier (1823–1896) |
Sep 30, 1875 – Sep 11, 1895 |
Mackenzie | Articles of clerkship with a senior lawyer (1846) Postmaster General | |
| 4 | [Jean-Thomas Taschereau (1814–1893) |
Sep 30, 1875 – Oct 6, 1878 |
Mackenzie | Articles of clerkship with a senior lawyer; École de droit de Paris (1837) Court of Queen's Bench of Quebec | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 1 | William Buell Richards | Sep 30, 1875 – Jan 10, 1879 | Mackenzie (CJ) | Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for Canada West |