Provincial Court of Manitoba

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

Current Judges

(Full complement of 41)

Name	Judicial Centre	Appointed	Appointed By	Prior Position(s)	Other Details
Chief Judge Margaret I. Wiebe		Decebmer 12, 2012 (Judge) July 10, 2016 to July 9, 2023 (Chief)	NDP (Judge) PC (CJ)		Published criminal decisions (~7)
Associate Chief Judge Shauna Hewitt-Michta	Brandon	January 29, 2009 (Judge) August 2, 2013 to August 1, 2020 (Ass. Chief)	NDP (Judge and Ass. Judge)		Published criminal decisions (~0)
Associate Chief Judge John P. Guy	Winnipeg	May 15, 1989 October 18, 2013 to October 17, 2020 (Ass. Chief)	PC		Published criminal decisions (~6)
Associate Chief Judge Anne Krahn [1] [2]		June 5, 2013 (Judge) Sept 9, 2015 to Sept 8, 2022 (Ass. Chief)	NDP (Judge and Ass. Chief)	Crown attorney Called to bar (~1991)	Published criminal decisions (~4)
Judge Brian M. Corrin	Winnipeg	March 4, 1988	NDP		Published criminal decisions (~70)
Judge Heather R. Pullan	Winnipeg	December 21, 1994	PC		Published criminal decisions (~9)
Judge Brent D. Stewart [3]	Winnipeg	April 15, 1998	PC	Hoeschen and Stewart Called to bar (1977)	Published criminal decisions (~10)
Senior Judge Lynn A. Stannard [4]	Winnipeg	August 4, 1999 (Judge) February 6, 2018 (Senior)	PC	Crown Attorney	Published criminal decisions (~1)
Judge Sidney B. Lerner [5]	Winnipeg	August 4, 1999	PC	Crown attorney Called to bar (1982)	Published criminal decisions (~2)
Judge Marva J. Smith [6]	Winnipeg	October 27, 1999 (Judge) August 14, 2012 (Senior)	NDP (Judge)	Constitutional Branch of Manitoba Justice	Published criminal decisions (~12)
Associate Chief Judge Mary Kate Harvie [7]	Winnipeg	July 26, 2000 (Judge) September 18, 2002 - ? (Ass. Chief)	NDP (Judge)	Myers Weinberg	Published criminal decisions (~28)
Senior Judge Kathlyn Mary A. Curtis [8]	Winnipeg	February 28, 2001 (Judge) April 13, 2013 (Senior)	NDP	Crown attorney Magistrate	Published criminal decisions (~13)
Judge John Combs [9]		March 26, 2003	NDP		Published criminal decisions (~2)
Judge Murray Thompson [10] [11]	Thompson	March 26, 2003 August 2, 2006 to August 1, 2014 (ACJ)	NDP (Judge) NDP (ACJ)	McDonald, Thompson, Huberdeau	Published criminal decisions (~7)
Judge Kelly Moar [12]	Winnipeg	April 13, 2005	NDP	Crown attorney Called to bar (1997)	Published criminal decisions (~20)
Judge Kenneth Champagne [13]	Winnipeg	April 13, 2005	NDP	Crown attorney Called to bar (1993)	Published criminal decisions (~0)
Judge Christine Harapiak [14]	Dauphin	April 13, 2005	NDP	Manitoba Justice Family Law Branch Hawkins & Sanderson Called to bar (1995)	Published criminal decisions (~16)
Judge Robin A. Finlayson [15]	Winnipeg	February 1, 2006	NDP	Crown attorney Called to bar (1976)	Published criminal decisions (~3)
Judge Catherine Carlson^[1]	Winnipeg	November 23, 2006	NDP		Published criminal decisions (~19)
Judge Robert L. (Rocky) Pollack [16]	Winnipeg	December 15, 2006	NDP	Called to bar (1972)	Published criminal decisions (~31)
Judge Rodney Garson [17]	Winnipeg	December 15, 2006	NDP	Justice Canada Manitoba justice	Published criminal decisions (~8)
Judge Doreen Redhead [18]	Thompson	April 4, 2007	NDP	Fox Lake First Nation Keewatin Tribal Council Called to bar (~1987)	Published criminal decisions (~7)
Judge Patti-Anne L. Umpherville^[2]	Winnipeg	September 17, 2007	NDP	Crown attorney (2003 to 2007) Phillips Aiello Legal Aid Called to bar (~1998)	Published criminal decisions (~1)
Judge Carena Roller^[2]	Winnipeg	September 17, 2007	NDP	Justice Canada (aboriginal) Called to bar (1992)	Published criminal decisions (~0)
Judge Lee Ann M. Martin^[2]	Winnipeg	September 17, 2007	NDP	Aikins MacAulay and Thorvaldson	Published criminal decisions (~25)
Judge Jean McBride^[3]	Portage la Prairie	June 18, 2008	NDP		Published criminal decisions (~0)
Tracey M. Lord [19]	Winnipeg	November 19, 2008	NDP	Called to bar (1991)	Published criminal decisions (~7)
Wanda M. Garreck [20]	Winnipeg	November 19, 2008	NDP	Crown attorney Private practice Called to bar (~1991)	Published criminal decisions (~1)
Herbert Lawrence Allen [21]	The Pas	January 29, 2009	NDP	Crown attorney Legal Aid Called to bar (~1976)	Published criminal decisions (~12)
Sandra L. Chapman [22]	Winnipeg	August 4, 2009	NDP	Killeen Chapman Called to bar (~1987)	Published criminal decisions (~2)
Robert M. Heinrichs [23]	Winnipeg	Sept 1, 2009	NDP	legal aid Called to bar (~1983)	Published criminal decisions (~15)
Malcolm W. McDonald [24]	The Pas	February 3, 2010	NDP	Called to bar (~1983)	Published criminal decisions
Dale C. Schille[25]	Winnipeg	May 19, 2010	NDP	Crown attorney Called to bar (~1989)	Published criminal decisions (~0)
Donald Slough [26]	Dauphin	July 10, 2010	NDP	Crown attorney Called to bar (1981)	Published criminal decisions (~17)
Cynthia A. Devine [27]	Winnipeg	July 24, 2012	NDP	Constitutional Law Branch private practice (criminal) Called to bar (~1993)	Published criminal decisions (~70)
Timothy J. P. Killeen [28]	Winnipeg	July 23, 2012	NDP	Killeen Rolston Wiebe Called to bar (~1980)	Published criminal decisions (~2)
Donovan Dvorak [29]	Brandon	February 27, 2013	NDP	Crown attorney Called to bar (~1994)	Published criminal decisions (~0)
Dale Harvey [30]	Winnipeg	July 10, 2013	NDP	Crown attorney Called to bar (1980)	Published criminal decisions (~1)
Catherine Hembroff [31]	Thompson	July 16, 2014	NDP	Crown Attorney Called to bar (1995)	Published criminal decisions (~0)
Alain Huberdeau [32]	Winnipeg	September 24, 2014	NDP	Law North LLP Called to bar (~1996)	Published criminal decisions (~0)
Ryan Rolston [33]	Winnipeg	December 2014	NDP	Private practice (criminal) Called to bar (~1999)	Published criminal decisions (~11)
Lindy Choy [34]	Winnipeg	June 12, 2015	NDP	Called to bar (~1992)	Published criminal decisions (~0)
Kael McKenzie [35]	Winnipeg	December 2015	NDP	Crown attorney Chapman Goddard Kagan Called to bar (2006)	Published criminal decisions (~2)
Todd Allen Rambow [36]	Thompson	December 07, 2016	PC		Published criminal decisions (~2)
Julie Fredrickson [37]	Winnipeg	February 13, 2018	PC		Published criminal decisions (~0)
Kusham Sharma [38]	Winnipeg	February 13, 2018	PC		Published criminal decisions (~0)
Theresa McDonald [39]	The Pas	October 11, 2018	PC	Legal Aid	Published criminal decisions (~0)
Shauna McCarthy [40]		March 8, 2019		private practice Called to bar (1994)
Keith Eyrikson [41]		March 8, 2019		Crown attorney (2002 to 2019)

Former Judges

Name	Judicial Centre	Duration	Appointed By	Previous Position(s)	Other Details
Judith Webster	Winnipeg	1988 to June 2006 1993 to 2001 (Chief)	PC (Judge) PC (CJ)		Published criminal decisions (~0)
Judge Howard Collerman	Winnipeg	July 1, 1975 to January 4, 2008 (33 years)	NDP		Published criminal decisions (~3)
Judge Theodore J. Lismer^[4]^[5]	Winnipeg	January 17, 1977 to July 31, 2017	NDP	Private practice (1954 to 1977)	Published criminal decisions (~19)
Judge Ronald J. Meyers	Winnipeg	November 1, 1977 to January 4, 2010 (33 years)	PC		Published criminal decisions (~9)
Judge Marvin F. Garfinkel^[6]	Winnipeg	December 5, 1979 to June 2014 (35 years)	PC		Published criminal decisions (~33)
Judge Charles K. Newcombe^[7]	Winnipeg	February 1, 1980 to 2008	PC		Published criminal decisions (~0)
Judge Susan V. Devine^[8]	Winnipeg	March 4, 1988 to September 1, 2010 (21 years)	NDP		Published criminal decisions
Judge Linda M. Giesbrecht^[9]	Winnipeg	March 4, 1988 to 2010	NDP		Published criminal decisions (~27)
Judge Murray Sinclair		March 4, 1988 to January 31, 2001 (ACJ)	NDP	Called to bar (1980)	Appointed to Senate (April 2, 2016) Appointed to T&R Commission (2009) Appointed MBQB (Jan 2001) Published criminal decisions (~0)
Judge Krystyna D. Tarwid	Brandon	July 6, 1994 - January 22, 2013	PC		Published criminal decisions (~2)
Judge Timothy Preston [42]	Winnipeg	April 30, 2003 - May 2015	NDP	Private practice (criminal) Called to bar (~1981)	Published criminal decisions (~32)
Judge Janice leMaistre^[1]	November 23, 2006 - June 2015	Winnipeg	NDP		Appointed to MBCA Published criminal decisions (~0)
Judge Michel L.J. Chartier^[2]	Winnipeg	September 17, 2007 - March 2016	NDP	Monk Goodwin Called to bar (1991)	Published criminal decisions Convicted of impaired driving (2016)[43]
Judge Raymond E. Wyant	Winnipeg	May 20, 1998 (Judge) July 10, 2002 - 2009 (Chief) August 2014 (retired) (16 years)	PC (Judge) NDP (CJ)		Published criminal decisions
Judge Fred H. Sandhu [44]	Winnipeg	April 30, 2003 - July 6, 2012 (9 years)	NDP	Legal Aid Called to bar (~1980)	Published criminal decisions (~23)
Judge Judith A. Elliott [45]	Winnipeg	July 26, 2000 - January 1, 2013 (13 years)	NDP	Legal Aid Manitoba (criminal)	Published criminal decisions
Charles Rubin		? - April 20, 2007 (32 years)			Published criminal decisions (~4)
Judge Roger J. C. Gregoire	The Pas	January 16, 1991 - September 2009 (19 years)	PC		Published criminal decisions (~3)
Wesley Swail		January 1, 1981 - February 2006 (25 years)	PC		Published criminal decisions (~15)
Judith Kopstein		? - June 2006 (17 years)			Published criminal decisions (~11)
Murray Howell	Thompson	? - October 2006 (21 years)			Published criminal decisions (~2)
Kenneth Peters	Dauphin Centre	? - September 3, 2004			Published criminal decisions
Bruce Miller	Winnipeg Centre	? - December 4, 2004			Published criminal decisions
Samuel Minuk	Winnipeg Centre	? - March 4, 2005			Published criminal decisions (~0)
Arnold Conner		? - December 2, 2005 (27 years)			Published criminal decisions
Judge Richard Ward Thompson	Dauphin	January 28, 1987 - June 2010 (17 years)	NDP		Published criminal decisions
Judge Brian G. Colli	Thompson	September 21, 1994 - May 2014	PC		Published criminal decisions (~0)
Judge Robert G. Cummings	Portage la Prairie	September 28, 1994 - July 31, 2008	PC		Appointed to MBQB Published criminal decisions
Mary A. Wawrykow		1 January 1973 - 8 June 1977	NDP		Published criminal decisions (~0)
Robert Edmond “Bob” Trudel		January 16, 1967 to March 16, 1988	PC		Published criminal decisions
Robert Merle Bruce Toews		August 5, 1980 to November 2, 1986	PC		Published criminal decisions (~0)
Roy St. George Stubbs		January 1, 1973 to July 31, 1982	NDP
Bruce Harold Miller		December 21, 1994 - April 13, 2005	PC		Published criminal decisions
Léa A. Duval		March 4, 1988 to April 30, 2001	NDP		Appointed to MBQB
Ian Ventress Dubienski		August 1, 1961 to February 1, 1989 November 16, 1983 to January 18, 1988 (Ass. Chief)	PC		Published criminal decisions (~0)
Jack Peter Drapack		June 14, 1982 to December 13, 2002	NDP		Published criminal decisions
Richard J. F. Chartier		August 16, 1993 to November 22, 2006	PC		Appointed to MBCA (2013) Published criminal decisions
Michael Baryluk		June 17, 1968 to August 1, 1985	PC		Published criminal decisions
Philip Langlois Ashdown		June 25, 1973 to December 31, 2001	NDP		Published criminal decisions
Frank Dennison Allen		December 1, 1980 to October 31, 1996	PC		Published criminal decisions
Alexander John Stringer		November 1959 to 1969	PC		Published criminal decisions
Kristjan Fredric Stefanson		September 1, 1979 to May 28, 1993 November 1, 1988 to 1993 (Chief)	PC		Published criminal decisions
Harvey Dennis Sparling		1957 to 1962	Liberal		Published criminal decisions
Manly Rusen		1975 to March 31, 1998	Liberal		Published criminal decisions
Glenn D Joyal		?? to June 22, 2007			Appointed to MBQB Published criminal decisions

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[5] ttp://oic.gov.mb.ca/OICDocs/2017/08/Justice%20&%20Attorney%20General.170809.Provincial%20Court%20Act.2142017.pdf

[6] ttp://www.manitobacourts.mb.ca/site/assets/files/1541/annual_report_2014-2015_-_final.pdf

[7] ttps://passages.winnipegfreepress.com/passage-details/id-229833/Newcombe_Charles

[8] ttp://www.manitobacourts.mb.ca/site/assets/files/1541/annual_report_2009-2010-1.pdf

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