Court of King's Bench of Manitoba

Current Justices

Name	Appointed	Division	Nominated By	Prior Position(s)
Chief Justice Glenn D. Joyal	June 22, 2007 (Judge) 2011 (Chief)	General	Stephen Harper
Associate Chief Justice Marianne Rivoalen	February 2, 2005	Family	Paul Martin
Associate Chief Justice Shane Perlmutter	February 3, 2011	General	Stephen Harper
Mr. Justice Robert B. Doyle	February 28, 2000	Family	Jean Chretien
Madam Justice Joan G. McKelvey	September 27, 2001	General	Jean Chretien
Madam Justice Colleen Suche	July 16, 2002	General	Jean Chretien
Madam Justice Marilyn E. Goldberg	July 16, 2002	Family	Jean Chretien
Madam Justice Shawn D. Greenberg	October 28, 2003	General	Jean Chretien
Madam Justice Karen I. Simonsen	December 9, 2004	General	Paul Martin	Thompson Dorfman Sweatman
Madam Justice Lori T. Spivak	May 19, 2005	General	Paul Martin	Aikins MacAulay & Thorvaldson
Madam Justice A. Catherine Everett	November 22, 2006	Family	Stephen Harper
Mr. Justice Michael A. Thomson	June 1, 2007	Family	Stephen Harper
Mr. Justice Robert Cummings	July 31, 2008	General	Stephen Harper	Provincial Court Judge (1994 to 2008)
Madam Justice Joan MacPhail	January 22, 2009	Family	Stephen Harper	Director of Family Law Branch of provincial DOJ (1989 to 2009)
Mr. Justice Chris Martin	January 22, 2009	General	Stephen Harper
Mr. Justice William Johnston	July 30, 2009	Family	Stephen Harper
Mr. Justice Robert Dewar	September 9, 2009	General	Stephen Harper	Thompson Dorfman Sweatman
Mr. Justice Richard Saull	February 10, 2010	General	Stephen Harper
Mr. Justice Gerald Chartier	September 30, 2010	General	Stephen Harper
Mr. Justice Herbert Rempel	March 7, 2013	General	Stephen Harper
Mr. Justice Sheldon Lanchbery	June 6, 2013	General	Stephen Harper
Madam Justice Gwen Hatch	June 6, 2013	Family	Stephen Harper
Mr. Justice James G. Edmond	October 1, 2013	General	Stephen Harper
Mr. Justice Victor E. Toews	March 7, 2014	General	Stephen Harper	Member of Parliament (1995 to 2013) Director of Constitutional Law (1987-1991) Crown Attorney (1977-1979)
Madam Justice Sadie Bond	April 11, 2014	General	Stephen Harper
Mr. Justice Allan Dueck	May 9, 2014	Family	Stephen Harper	Mercier Dueck (2005 to 2014) Gould Gosner (1997 to 2005)
Madam Justice Sandra Zinchuk	February 26, 2015	General	Stephen Harper	Monk Goodwin LLP (1995 to 2015)
Madam Justice Kaye Dunlop	June 19, 2015	Family	Stephen Harper	Kaye E. Dunlop, Q.C. Law Office (1984 to 2015)
Mr. Justice Regan Thatcher	June 19, 2015	Family	Stephen Harper	Regan Thatcher Law Office (2002 to 2015)
Madam Justice Lore Mirwaldt	October 20, 2016	Family	Justin Trudeau	Mirwaldt & Gray (1986 to 2016)
Mr. Justice David J. Kroft	October 20, 2016	General	Justin Trudeau	Fillmore Riley LLP (1990 to 2016)
Madam Justice Candace Grammond	October 20, 2016	General	Justin Trudeau	Pitblado LLP (1999 to 2016)
Mr. Justice Scott Abel	December 19, 2017	General	Justin Trudeau
Mr. Justice Kenneth Champagne	April 4, 2018	General	Justin Trudeau	Crown attorney (1994 to 2005) Provincial Court (2005 to 2018)

Under the federal Judges Act, federally appointed judges (such as those on the Manitoba Court of Appeal) may, after being in judicial office for at least 15 years and whose combined age and number of years of judicial service is not less than 80 or after the age of 70 years and at least 10 years judicial service, elect to give up their regular judicial duties and hold office as a supernumerary judge.

The following justices have elected supernumerary status:

• Mr. Justice Carr (December 14, 2006)
• Mr. Justice Goodman (December 14, 2006)
• Mr. Justice Kennedy (December 21, 2004)
• Mr. Justice Clearwater (July 10, 2007)
• Mr. Justice Nurgitz (June 22, 2004)
• Madam Justice Guertin-Riley (September 16, 2006)
• Mr. Justice John A. Menzies (August 7, 1996)
• Mr. Justice Donald M. Little (February 10, 1998)
• Madam Justice Laurie P. Allen (October 6, 1998)
• Madam Justice Brenda L. Keyser (October 3, 1995)
• Mr. Justice Frank Aquila
• Madam Justice Deborah J. McCawley (September 17, 1997)
• Mr. Justice D.N. Abra

Past Justices

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• Gordon J. Barkman
• Alexander Morris
• James Charles McKeagney
• Louis Betourney
• Edmund Burke Wood
• Joseph Dubuc (Chief Justice of Manitoba from August 8, 1903 until 1909)
• James Andrews Miller
• Lewis Wallbridge
• Thomas Wardlaw Taylor
• Robert Smith
• Albert Clements Killam
• John Farquhar Bain
• Albert Elswood Richards
• William Edgerton Perdue
• Thomas Graham Mathers
• Daniel Alexander Macdonald
• John Donald Cameron
• Thomas Llewellyn Metcalfe
• James Emile Pierre Prendergast
• Hugh Amos Robson
• Alexander Casmir Galt
• John Philpot Curran
• Andrew Knox Dysart
• John Evans Adamson
• James Frederick Kilgour
• William James Donovan
• Percival John Montague
• Fawcett Gowler Taylor
• Ewan Alexander McPherson
• William James Major
• Esten Kenneth Williams
• Arnold Munroe Campbell
• Joseph Thomas Beaubien
• John Joseph Kelly
• Robert George Brian Dickson
• John Alton Duncan
• Richard J. Scott (currently serving as Chief Justice of the Manitoba Court of Appeal)
• Michel A. Monnin (currently serving as a judge on the Manitoba Court of Appeal)
• Freda M. Steel (currently serving as a judge on the Manitoba Court of Appeal)
• Barbara M. Hamilton (currently serving as a judge on the Manitoba Court of Appeal)
• Alan D. MacInnes (currently serving as a judge on the Manitoba Court of Appeal)
• Brian C Midwinter

See also

• Judicial appointments in Canada

External links

• Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba website
• Publicly accessible court registry system
• Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba decisions database
• History of Manitoba Judges