Membership of Federal Appointments Committees
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Committees
Supreme Court of Canada
Name | Location | Duration of Membership | Nominated by | Appointed By | Professional History |
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Kim Campbell, Chair | Edmonton | Minister of Justice | J. Trudeau | Peter Lougheed Leadership College, University of Alberta (prof) (2014 to present) Canadian Consul General in California (1996 to 2000) Prime Minister (1993 to 1993) | |
Lili-Anna Pereša | Montreal | Minister of Justice | J. Trudeau | President and Executive Director of Centraide of Greater Montreal Oxfam-Québec Volunteer aid worker Engineer | |
Stephen Kakfwi | Yellowknife | Minister of Justice | J. Trudeau | Consultant Former Premier of the Northwest Territories and President of the Dene Nation Member of NWT Legislative Assembly (1987 to 2003) | |
Susan Ursel | Toronto | Canadian Bar Association | J. Trudeau | Ursel Phillips Fellows Hopkinson (labour, employment, human rights) Called to bar (1986) | |
Sheila M. MacPherson | Yellowknife | Federation of Law Societies of Canada | J. Trudeau | Lawson Lundell Canadian Human Rights Commission Called to bar (1988) | |
Richard J. Scott | Winnipeg | Canadian Judicial Council | J. Trudeau | Former Chief Justice of the Manitoba Court of Appeal (1990 - ?) Court of Queen's Bench (1985 to 1990) Thompson Dorfman Sweatman (1963 to 1985) Called to bar (1963) | |
Camille Cameron | Halifax | Council of Canadian Law Deans | J. Trudeau | Dalhousie Law School (prof) |
British Columbia
As of January 2017
Name | Location | Duration of Membership | Appointed By | Professional History |
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Justice Brenda J. Brown | Vancouver | January 2017 | Chief Justice | BC Supreme Court (2002 to present) Davis & Company (1995 to 2002) Boughton Peterson Yang Anderson Called to bar (1982) |
Jan Lindsay, QC | Vancouver | Law Society | Lindsay LLP [2] Called to bar (1981) | |
Rajwant (Raji) Mangat | Vancouver | CBA | West Coast LEAF [3] BC Civil Liberties Association Sullivan & Cromwell (2004 to 2009) Called to bar (2004) | |
Charlotte A. Salomon, QC | Victoria | Attorney General | McConnan Bion O'Connor & Peterson [4] Called to bar (1996) | |
Dean A. Crawford, QC | North Vancouver | Public Rep 1 | Pulver Crawford Munroe Called to bar (~1995) |
Alberta
Name | Location | Duration of Membership | Appointed By | Professional History |
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Justice Peter Walter Lambert Martin | Calgary | Chief Justice of Alberta | Court of Appeal (2005 to ?) Court of Queen's Bench (1998 to 2005) Crown Attorney (1978 to 1995) Evans Martin Wilson (1995 to 1998) Crown Attorney (1977 to 1995) Called to bar (1977) | |
Wendy E. Best, QC | Calgary | Law Society of Alberta | Dunphy Best Blocksom [6] (family) Called to bar (1980) | |
Hanan Kamal Campbell | Edmonton | Canadian Bar Association | EPCOR Utilities Inc [7] | |
Jennifer N. Davis (Private practitioner) [8] | Lethbridge | public rep #1 | Lethbridge College (psychologist) | |
Danika Billie Littlechild | Maskwacis | public rep #2 | UNSECO [9] | |
Jelle Jeen Van Ens | Beaver County | Public Rep #3 | Social worker [10] |
Saskatchewan
Name | Location | Duration of Membership | Appointed By | Professional History |
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Justice Brian A. Barrington-Foote | Regina | Chief Justice of Sask. | Court of Queen’s Bench (2012 to present) Counsel to First Nations in AB and SK Crown counsel (SK) and (BC) Deputy Attorney General (SK) (1987 to 1992) | |
Heather Laing, Q.C. [12] | Saskatoon | Law Society | McDougall Gauley LLP Called to bar (~1994) | |
Diana K. Lee, Q.C. | Regina | Canadian Bar Association | Kanuka Thuringer LLP [13] Called to bar (1982) | |
Lisa Watson | Saskatoon | Attorney General | Peszko & Watson [14] | |
Kimberly Beaudin | Saskatoon | Public Rep | outreach worker | |
Curtis Kleisinger [15] | Regina | Public Rep | Mother Thresa Middle School | |
Brenda Merasty | Saskatoon | Public Rep | Consultant |
Manitoba
Name | Location | Duration of Membership | Appointed By | Professional History |
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Justice Diana M. Cameron | Winnipeg | Chief Justice | Court of Appeal (2012 to present) Queen's Bench (2011 to 2012) Crown Attorney | |
Irene A. Hamilton | Winnipeg | Law Society | Ass. Deputy AG (2012 to 2017) Ombudsman (2005 to 2012) Called to bar (1980) | |
Priscilla Sternat-Mcivor | Winnipeg | Canadian Bar Association | Sternat Manaigre Law Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs | |
Timothy Kurbis | Winnipeg | Attorney General | Taylor McCaffrey LLP | |
Lorraine Brandson | Churchill | Public Representative | Curator of the Itsanitaq Museum | |
Aimée Craft | Winnipeg | Public Representative | Director of Research for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (2017 to present) Director of Research at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation University of Manitoba (prof) Public Interest Law Centre | |
Hymie Weinstein | Winnipeg | Public Representative | Myers Weinberg (criminal) |
Ontario (East and North)
Name | Location | Duration of Membership | Appointed By | Professional History |
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Justice Bonnie R. Warkentin | Thunder Bay | Superior Court | ||
Marisa Victor | Ottawa | Law Society | Sole practitioner Greenspon, Brown & Associates Fasken Martineau DuMoulin Commission into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight 182 | |
Celina Reitberger | Thunder Bay | Attorney General | Executive Director of Nishnawbe-Aski Legal Services | |
Mary Kloosterman | Perth Road | Public Rep #1 | CEO of the YMCA of Kingston | |
Antje McNeely | Odessa | Public Rep #2 | Deputy Chief of Kingston Police (2011 to present) | |
Pierre Riopel | Alban | Public Rep #3 | Retired teacher President of Collège Boréal |
Ontario (Wet and South)
Name | Location | Duration of Membership | Appointed By | Professional History |
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Justice Lynne C. Leitch | ||||
Beverley K. Jacobs | ||||
Allen J. Wynperle | ||||
Kuljit K. Bhamra | ||||
Lynn Macaulay | ||||
Jessica Sartori | ||||
Ontario (Toronto Area)
Name | Location | Duration of Membership | Appointed By | Professional History |
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Justice Sarah E. Pepall | Court of Appeal for Ontario | |||
Emily C. Cole | ||||
Arleen Huggins (Koski Minsky) [18] | ||||
Rosella Cornaviera | ||||
Keith Forde | ||||
Helen (Au) Hayward | ||||
Quebec (West)
Name | Location | Duration of Membership | Appointed By | Professional History |
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Justice Nicholas P. Kasirer (Quebec Court of Appeal) | ||||
Louise Mailhot, Ad. E. (Faskens) [19] | ||||
Karine Joizil [20] | ||||
Lucie Lalonde | ||||
Louis Charette | ||||
Jean Perras |
Quebec (East)
Name | Location | Duration of Membership | Appointed By | Professional History |
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Justice Catherine La Rosa | Québec | Chief Justice | Superior Court (2006 to present) Garneau Verdon Michaud Samson | |
Pierre Giroux (Tremblay Bois Mignault Lemay) [22] | Québec | Canadian Bar Association | Tremblay Bois Mignault Lemay Called to bar (1977) | |
Miville Tremblay | Saint-Honoré-de-Chicoutimi | Attorney General | Sole practitioner | |
France Bilodeau | Québec | Public Representative | Actuary at Aon Hewitt | |
Stuart (Kip) Cobbett [23] | Canton Stanstead | Public Representative | UNLTD VR Chief Operating Officer of Stikeman Elliott | |
Lise Verreault | Rimouski | Public Representative |
New Brunswick
Name | Location | Duration of Membership | Appointed By | Professional History |
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Justice Margaret E.L. Larlee | ||||
Pierre Castonguay (NB Legal aid) [24] | ||||
Catherine Lahey, QC | Stewart McKelvey [25] | |||
Blair C. Fraser | ||||
Clarence LeBreton | ||||
Bridget Ryan | ||||
Normand G. Thériault |
Prince Edward Island
Name | Location | Duration of Membership | Appointed By | Professional History |
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Justice Wayne D. Cheverie (Supreme Court of PEI) | ||||
Nancy E. Birt, QC (Birt McNeil) [26] | ||||
Krista J. MacKay, QC, | ||||
Erin T. Mitchell (Dept. Minister of Justice) [27] | ||||
Nadine A. DeWolfe | ||||
Mary MacInnis | ||||
Ann Sherman (Independent writer) [28] |
Nova Scotia
Name | Location | Duration of Membership | Appointed By | Professional History |
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Justice Patrick J. Duncan | Supreme Court of NS | |||
Kathryn M. Dumke, QC | Bridgewater | Barristers’ Society | Dumke Law [30] Called to bar (1994) | |
Jack Townsend | Halifax | Canadian Bar Association | Cox & Palmer (2011 to present) [31] Called to bar (2011) | |
Alonzo Charles Wright (NS Public Prosecution) [32] | Halifax | Attorney General | Crown attorney | |
Dr. Garland (Gary) Brooks | Halifax | Public Representative | St FX Psychology | |
Naiomi W. Metallic | Halifax | Public Representative | Dalhousie Law (prof) [33] Called to bar (~2008) | |
Philip J. Star | Yarmouth | Public Representative | Pink Star Barro [34] |
Newfoundland and Labrador
Name | Location | Duration of Membership | Appointed By | Professional History |
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Justice Charles W. White Gladys Dunne |
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Twila E. Reid (Stewart McKelvey) [35] | ||||
Derek P. Ford | Jewer & Ford | |||
Remzi Cej | ||||
Cathy Follett | ||||
Madelyn Kelly |
Previous Members
- Nova Scotia
- Justice Peter M.S. Bryson
- John S. McFarlane, Q.C.
- J. Gregory MacDonald, Q.C.
- B. Craig Clarke
- Tara Erskine
- Maxine Chalmers McCuaig
- Alberta
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| Michelle Christopher, QC
|Calgary
|January 19, 2017 - November 6, 2018 (appointed to ABPC)
| J. Trudeau
|Executive Director of Student Legal Assistance (University Calgary Law)
Called to bar (1987)
See Also
External links
- List of Members by Province
- Appointments in January 2017
- Appointments in April 2017
- Appointments in June 2017
- Reports of the Judicial Committees (2004 to 2016)