Court of King's Bench for Saskatchewan

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Current Justices

(Full complement of 33, including Family)

Name	Jurisdiction	Appointed	Nominated By	Prior Position(s)	Other Details
Chief Justice Martel D. Popescul	N/A	2006 (J) 2012 (CJ)		Sanderson Balicki Popescul Crown Prosecutor (1980 to 1982)	Published criminal decisions (~27)
Justice C.L. Dawson	Regina	~1995			Published criminal decisions (~67)
Justice G.A.J. Chicoine [1]	Estevan	October 30, 2003	Chretien	Provincial Court (2002 to 2003) Chicoine and Billesberger Called to bar (1980)	Published criminal decisions (~50)
Justice Grant M. Currie ^[1] [2]	Saskatoon	February 25, 2005	Martin	Robertson Stromberg Pedersen Called to bar (1981)	Published criminal decisions (~46)
Justice Janet E. McMurtry^[2]		November 16, 2005	Martin	Provincial Court Judge (1994 to 2005) Woloshyn and Company Called to bar (1986)	Published criminal decisions (~69)
Justice Ronald C. Mills [3]	Saskatoon	November 16, 2005	Martin	Mills Wilcox Zuk Called to bar (1978)	Published criminal decisions (~46)
Justice D.B. Konkin	Saskatoon	~2006			Published criminal decisions (~35)
Justice Timothy J. Keene	Swift Current	~2011		Crown attorney	Published criminal decisions (~19)
Justice B.J. Scherman^[3]^[4]	Saskatoon	March 4, 2011	Harper	Miller Thomson LLP Called to bar (1973)	Published criminal decisions (~43)
Justice Richard W. Danyliuk ^[5]	Saskatewan	September 30, 2011	Harper	McDougall Gauley LLP (2001 to 2011) Thorstad Danyliuk McAdam (1987 to 2000) Called to bar (1984)	Published criminal decisions (~50)
Justice L.L. Krogan ^[6]	Regina	October 5, 2012	Harper	Saskatchewan Ministry of Justice Called to bar (1994)	Published criminal decisions (~11)
Justice R.W. Elson^[7]	Saskatoon	June 7, 2013	Harper	McKercher LLP (1982 to 2013)	Published criminal decisions (~24)
Justice Darin C Chow^[8]	Moose Jaw	November 8, 2013	Harper	Provincial Court (2012 to 2013)	Published criminal decisions (~9)
Justice DH Layh^[9]	Yorkton	June 13, 2014	Harper	Layh & Associates (1994 to 2014)	Published criminal decisions (~18)
Justice J.D. Kalmakoff^[10]	Regina	May 29, 2015	Harper	Provincial Court of Saskatchewan (2009 to 2015) Sask. Crown Attorney Hnatyshyn Singer	Published criminal decisions (~20)
Justice G.A. Meschishnick [4]	Prince Albert	June 24, 2015	Harper		Published criminal decisions (~4)
Justice Heather MacMillan-Brown^[11]	Saskatoon	February 22, 2018	J. Trudeau	Miller Thomson (1997 to 2018)	Published criminal decisions (~2)
Justice Meghan McCreary^[12]	Regina	February 22, 2018	J. Trudeau	MLT Aikins LLP	Published criminal decisions (~2)
Justice K.L. Zerr ^[13]	Saskatoon	May 11, 2018	J. Trudeau	Crown Attorney Called to bar (~1994)	Published criminal decisions (~0)
Justice M.D. Tochor ^[14]	Saskatoon	June 22, 2018	J. Trudeau	Called to bar (1984)	Published criminal decisions (~0)
Graeme Mitchell [5]	Regina	September 21, 2018	J. Trudeau	Crown counsel (constitution) Called to bar (1985)	Published criminal decisions (~0)
Brenda R. Hildebrandt [6]	Battleford	November 2, 2018	J. Trudeau	Sole practitioner Gauley & Co (1994 to 2007) Called to bar (1994)	Published criminal decisions (~0)
Charlene M. Richmond [7]	Regina	November 2, 2018	J. Trudeau	Richmond Nychuk (1991 to 2018) Merchant Law Group Called to bar (~1989)	Published criminal decisions (~0)

Supernumerary Justices

Name	Duration	Nominated By	Prior Position(s)	Other Details
Justice M.D. Acton	December 1, 2017 (sup.)^[15]			Published criminal decisions
Justice Gerald Norman Allbright ^[16]	1995 (Judge) August 2016 (Sup)		Halyk, Allbright Director of the Saskatchewan Community Legal Services Commission Kirkby & Allbright	Published criminal decisions
Justice Mona Lynn Dovell [8]	November 5, 1997 (Judge) December 31, 2016 (Sup.)		Halyk, Dovell, Morrison (1984 to 1997) Called to bar (1984)	Published criminal decisions
Justice Neil G. Gabrielson ^[17]	? - Febuary 28, 2018 (sup.) [9]			Published criminal decisions
Justice Frederick J. Kovach [10]	November 18, 1998	Chrétien	MacPherson, Leslie & Tyerman Crown attorney Woloshyn & Cawood Called to bar (1976)	Published criminal decisions
Justice R.D. Maher [11]	November 18, 1998	Chrétien	Shury & Miller Called to bar (1967)	Published criminal decisions
Justice J.L. Pritchard				Published criminal decisions
Justice A.R. Rothery		? (Judge) December 2015 (sup)		Published criminal decisions
Justice R. Shawn Smith [12]	December 16, 2002 (Judge) December 31, 2017 (Sup.)	Chrétien		Published criminal decisions
Justice Ysanne G.K. Wilkinson ^[18]	1996 - ?		Sanderson & Wilkinson (1978 to 1996) Called to bar (1978)	Published criminal decisions
Justice T.C. Zarzeczny ^[19]	1996		MacDougall Ready Graf & Zarzeczny	Published criminal decisions
Justice E.J. Gunn	2005? - Sept 1, 2011 (sup.)		Crown attorney	Published criminal decisions

Family Division

Name	Jurisdiction	Duration	Nominated By	Prior Position(s)	Other Details
Justice G.D. Dufour	Family				Published criminal decisions
Justice Donna L. Wilson [13]	Family	December 16, 2002	Chrétien		Published criminal decisions
Justice G.V. Goebel ^[20]	Family	2014	Harper	Robertson Stromberg (1994 to 2014)	Published criminal decisions
Justice F. Neil Turcotte^[21]	Family	June 22, 2012	Harper	MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman LLP Cuelenaere Kendall Katzman & Watson Called to bar (1990)	Published criminal decisions (~7)
Justice L.W. Zuk^[22]	Family	November 8, 2013	Harper	Wilcox Zuk Chovin Law Offices	Published criminal decisions
Justice J.A. Tholl^[23]	Family	2013			Published criminal decisions
Justice Darryl J. Brown ^[24]	Family	2014	Harper	Saskatchewan Ministry of Justice	Published criminal decisions
Justice M.T. Megaw^[25]	Family	2014	Harper	Gerrand Rath Johnson	Published criminal decisions
Justice D.E. Labach [14]	Family	June 24, 2015	Harper		Published criminal decisions

Previous Justices

Name	Duration	Nominated By	Prior Position(s)	Other Details
Justice B.A. Barrington-Foote^[26]	Regina	April 10, 2012 to November 2, 2018	Harper	MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman LLP (2002 to 2012) McKercher McKercher & Whitmore (1995 to 2002) Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer (1992 to 1995) Called to bar (1985)	Appointed to SKCA (2018) Published criminal decisions (~37)
John Klebuc	1993 to 2006 (Judge) 2006 to 2013 (Chief)	Chretien	private practice Called to bar (1965)	Appointed to SKCA (2013) Published criminal decisions
Peter A. Whitmore	? - June 7, 2013		McKercher McKercher & Whitmore LLP G.H.M. Armstrong and Associates Called to bar (~1974)
Justice Robert W. Leurer ^[27] [15]	2017 - September 21, 2018	J. Trudeau	MLT Aikins LLP Called to bar (1986)	Published criminal decisions
Justice Maurice J. Herauf	2007 to 2011 (appt'd to CA)			Published criminal decisions (~9)
Honourable Lian M. Schwann^[28]^[4]	March 2011 to 2017	Harper	Crown counsel McDougall Gauley	Published criminal decisions (~43)
Merri-Ellen Rose Wright ^[29]	November 8, 1996	Chretien	McDougall, Ready (1990 to 1996) Cuelenaere, Beaubier, Kendall, Fisher & Gaucher (1982 to 1990) Called to bar (1982)	Published criminal decisions
Patricia Mabel Blacklock Linn^[30]	June 20, 1996 - 1998	Chretien		Published criminal decisions (~0)
Gene Anne Smith [16]	November 5, 1997	Chretien	University of Saskatchewan Professor (1979 to 1987) McKercher, McKercher, Stack, Korchin and Laing (1975 to 1979) Called to bar (1975)	Published criminal decisions
Gerald M Kraus [17]	Novebmer 18, 1998	Chretien	Kraus, McKay, Pederson Called to bar (1971)	Published criminal decisions
Lynn B. Macdonald [18]	November 18, 1998	Chretien		Published criminal decisions
Duane Koch [19]	July 28, 2000	Chretien		Published criminal decisions (~31)
Jacelyn Ann Ryan-Froslie [20]	July 28, 2000 to November 8, 2013	Chretien	Called to bar (1978)	Appointed SKCA Published criminal decisions (~25)
Peter Foley [21]	July 28, 2000	Chretien		Published criminal decisions (~30)
Dennis P. Ball [22]	August 30, 2001	Chretien	Hill, McLellan, Ball, Cundall & Bridges Kohaly & Associates Called to bar (1968)	Published criminal decisions . (~34)
Noel S. Sandomirsky	October 30, 2003		Kanuka, Thuringer Called to bar (1968)	Published criminal decisions (~8)
W. Frank Gerein [23]	1981 to 2014 (Judge) 2000 to 2005 (Chief)		District Judge (1980) Called to bar (1964)	Published criminal decisions (~33)

References

External links

Saskatchewan Court of Queen's Bench website

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[2] ttps://www.canada.ca/en/news/archive/2005/11/saskatchewan-judicial-appointments-announced.html

[3] ttp://nationtalk.ca/story/saskatchewan-judicial-appointments-announced

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[10] ttps://www.canada.ca/en/news/archive/2015/05/saskatchewan-judicial-appointment-announced.html

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[15] ttps://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/government-of-canada-announces-judicial-appointments-in-the-province-of-saskatchewan-674859033.html

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[23] ttp://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2013/doc_33018.html

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[27] ttps://www.canada.ca/en/department-justice/news/2017/11/government_of_canadaannouncesjudicialappointmentintheprovinceofs.html

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