Supreme Court of Canada (Historical)

Past Justices

See also: Supreme Court of Canada

#	Name	Service duration	Appointed on advice of	Prior position
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