1. Emily Murphy (1868)

Canadian Judge

Notable for her membership in a Canadian women's activist group known as "The Famous Five," Murphy played a key role in convincing the government to consider women "qualified persons" who...

2. Louise Arbour (1947)

Canadian Judge

The Honourable Louise Arbour has served as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, as a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and the Court of Appeal for Ontario,...

3. Thomas Welch (1742)

Canadian Judge

Thomas Welch or Walsh was a surveyor and judge in Upper Canada. He was born in the Province of Maryland in 1742 the son of Irish immigrants with roots in...

4. Gérard La Forest (1926)

Canadian Judge

Gérard Vincent La Forest CC QC FRSC LL. D was a Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from January 16 1985 to September 30 1997. He is currently...

5. Frederick E. Gibson (1935)

Canadian Judge

E. Gibson is a judge currently serving on the Federal Court of Canada.

6. Daniel Lionel Hanington (1835)

Canadian Judge

Daniel Lionel Hanington was a New Brunswick Canada politician and jurist. He was born at Shediac New Brunswick the son of Daniel Hanington and was educated there and at Mount...

7. Morris Fish (1938)

Canadian Judge

Morris J. Fish was a judge of the Supreme Court of Canada from 2003 to 2013. Born in Montreal Quebec the son of Aaron S. Fish and Zlata Grober he...

8. Charles Dow Richards (1879)

Canadian Judge

Charles Dow Richards born in Southampton York County New Brunswick was a judge and New Brunswick politician. He served as Conservative house leader and then Minister of Lands and Mines...

9. George Sherwood (Canadian politician) (1811)

Canadian Judge

George Sherwood was a judge and political figure in Canada West. He was born in Augusta Township in 1811 the son of Levius Peters Sherwood. He studied law was called...

10. George Edwin King (1839)

Canadian Judge

George Edwin King was a New Brunswick lawyer politician jurist and the second and fourth Premier of New Brunswick in the Canadian Confederation. King attended Wesleyan University in Middletown Connecticut...

11. William Hume Blake (1809)

Canadian Judge

Hume Blake QC was an Irish-Canadian jurist and politician. He was the father of Edward Blake an Ontario Premier and federal Liberal party of Canada leader. He was born at...

12. Calvert Charlton Miller (1899)

Canadian Judge

Calvert Charlton Miller was a Canadian lawyer politician and jurist. Miller was born and raised in Portage la Prairie. He articled in the law firm of Meighen and Sexsmith the...

13. Beverley McLachlin (1943)

Canadian Judge

Beverley McLachlin PC is the 17th and current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and the first woman to hold this position. She also serves as a Deputy...

14. William Buell Richards (1815)

Canadian Judge

Sir William Buell Richards PC Kt was the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Richards was born in Brockville Upper Canada to Stephen Richards and Phoebe Buell....

15. Allan Lutfy (1943)

Canadian Judge

Allan Lutfy QC is a Supernumerary Judge of the Federal Court of Canada having previously served as its Chief Justice prior to retiring from his post on September 30 2011....

16. Lewis Wallbridge (1816)

Canadian Judge

Lewis Wallbridge was a lawyer judge and political figure in Canada West. In 1882 he was appointed Chief Justice of Manitoba. He was born in Belleville in 1816. He studied...

17. Johanne Trudel (1953)

Canadian Judge

Johanne Trudel is a judge currently serving on the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal.

18. Gilles Létourneau (1945)

Canadian Judge

Gilles Létourneau is a Canadian attorney and judge currently serving on the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal and Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada.

19. William Alexander Henry (1816)

Canadian Judge

Alexander Henry was a Canadian lawyer politician judge and one of the Fathers of Confederation. He was born in Halifax Nova Scotia. Shortly afterward his family moved to Antigonish. He...

20. Lorraine Laporte-Landry (Unknow)

Canadian Judge

Lorraine Laporte-Landry was an influential judge in the Quebec justice system. She was married to former premier Bernard Landry. She attended the Université de Montréal and HEC Montréal. She was...

21. Harry LaForme (1946)

Canadian Judge

Harry Smith LaForme is a Canadian judge. A member of the Mississaugas people LaForme is the first appellate court judge in Canadian history with a First Nations background.

22. Rosalie Abella (1946)

Canadian Judge

Rosalie Silberman Abella FRSC is a Canadian jurist. She was appointed in 2004 to the Supreme Court of Canada becoming the first Jewish woman to sit on the Canadian Supreme...

23. Clarence Estey (1917)

Canadian Judge

Clarence Leslie Baldwin Estey was a lawyer judge and political figure in Saskatchewan. He represented Saskatoon Nutana Centre from 1967 to 1971 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a...

24. Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley (1870)

Canadian Judge

Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley was a New Brunswick lawyer politician and the 21st Premier. Tilley was born in Ottawa the son of Samuel Leonard Tilley one of the Fathers...

25. Louis-Victor Sicotte (1812)

Canadian Judge

Louis-Victor Sicotte was a lawyer judge and politician in Lower Canada. He was born Louis Cicot in Boucherville Lower Canada in 1812. He studied law and was called to the...

26. Robert Baldwin Sullivan (1802)

Canadian Judge

Robert Baldwin Sullivan QC was a Canadian lawyer judge and politician who became the 2nd Mayor of Toronto. He was born in Bandon County Cork in the Ireland in 1802...

27. Constance Hunt (1950)

Canadian Judge

Constance Darlene Hunt is a Canadian lawyer legal academic and judge. Born in Yorkton Saskatchewan she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1970 and a Bachelor of Law degree...

28. Charles Dewey Day (1806)

Canadian Judge

Charles Dewey Day QC was a lawyer judge and political figure in Canada East. He was born in Bennington Vermont in 1806 and came to Montreal in Lower Canada with...

29. Louise Charron (1951)

Canadian Judge

Louise Charron CC is a Canadian jurist. She was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in October 2004 and is the first native-born Franco-Ontarian Supreme Court judge.

30. Marie Deschamps (1952)

Canadian Judge

Marie Deschamps CC was a puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada. She retired on August 7 2012.

31. Andromache Karakatsanis (1955)

Canadian Judge

Andromache Karakatsanis is a Canadian jurist. She was nominated to the Supreme Court of Canada by Stephen Harper in October 2011. She is the first Greek-Canadian judge on the Court.

32. Johanne Gauthier (1955)

Canadian Judge

Johanne Gauthier is a judge currently serving on the Federal Court of Appeal. Justice Gauthier was appointed to her position as a Federal Court judge by Canadian Prime Minister Jean...

33. James Baby (1763)

Canadian Judge

James Baby was a judge and political figure in Upper Canada.

34. James Jerome (1933)

Canadian Judge

James Alexander Jerome PC was a Canadian jurist and former politician and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons.

35. John Erskine Read (1888)

Canadian Judge

John Erskine Read OC was a Canadian lawyer civil servant and the only Canadian judge elected to the International Court of Justice.

36. James Putnam (judge) (Unknow)

Canadian Judge

Samuel Putnam was a judge and political figure in New Brunswick. He served as a member of New Brunswick's first Council. Putnam was born in Salem Massachusetts was educated at...

37. John Carmichael Haynes (1831)

Canadian Judge

John Carmichael Haynes was an Irish-born rancher judge and public servant in British Columbia. He was born in Landscape County Cork the son of Jonas Haynes and Hester Carmichael and...

38. Harvey Brownstone (1956)

Canadian Judge

Harvey Brownstone is a judge of the Ontario Court of Justice and the first openly gay judge in Canada. He is also a bestselling author and host of a television...

39. Edward C. Campbell (Unknow)

Canadian Judge

Edward Clarke Campbell was a lawyer judge and political figure in Canada West. He represented Niagara in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1841 to 1842. He...

40. Joshua Upham (1741)

Canadian Judge

Joshua Upham was a lawyer judge and political figure in New Brunswick. He served as a member of the New Brunswick Council. He was born in Brookfield Massachusetts the son...

41. Edward Stuart McDougall (1886)

Canadian Judge

Edward Stuart McDougall was a Canadian politician and judge. He was a judge on the Court of King's Bench of Quebec and the International Military Tribunal for the Far East....

42. John Edward Gibben (1885)

Canadian Judge

John Edward Gibben was a lawyer judge and political figure in the Yukon Canada. He served as Yukon Commissioner from 1947 to 1950. He was born in Middlesbrough England the...

43. Robert Sharpe (Unknow)

Canadian Judge

Robert James Sharpe is a Canadian lawyer author academic and judge. He was Dean of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law from 1990 to 1995 and is a judge...

44. George Okill Stuart, Jr. (1807)

Canadian Judge

George Okill Stuart was a Quebec lawyer judge and political figure. He was born in Upper Canada in 1807 the son of George Okill Stuart and was educated at Kingston...

45. Thomas-Jean-Jacques Loranger (1823)

Canadian Judge

Thomas-Jean-Jacques Loranger was a Quebec judge and political figure. He was born in Yamachiche in Lower Canada in 1823. He studied at the Séminaire de Nicolet then articled in law...

46. Steven Point (1951)

Canadian Judge

Steven Lewis Point OBC is a Provincial Court of British Columbia judge and former Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia whose term of office ended on November 1 2012.

47. Henri Elzéar Taschereau (1836)

Canadian Judge

Sir Henri-Elzéar Taschereau PC was a Canadian jurist and the fourth Chief Justice of Canada. He was born in his family's seigneurial manor house at Sainte-Marie-de-la-Beauce Lower Canada to Pierre-Elzéar...

48. Lawrence John Cannon (1852)

Canadian Judge

Lawrence John Cannon was a Canadian lawyer and judge. Born in Quebec City Canada East the son of Lawrence Ambrose Cannon and Mary Jane Cary his godfather was Augustin-Norbert Morin....

49. John B. McNair (1889)

Canadian Judge

John Babbitt McNair CC was the 23rd premier of the Province of New Brunswick Canada from 1940 to 1952. He worked as a lawyer politician and judge. Born in Andover...

50. John James Fraser (1829)

Canadian Judge

John James Fraser was a New Brunswick lawyer judge and politician. John Fraser was born at Beaubears Island Northumberland County New Brunswick. He married twice the first time in 1867...