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List of current and former judges

Find current and former chief justices and puisne judges going back to the creation of the Court in 1875.

Current judges

List of current Supreme Court of Canada judges
Judge Date of appointment
The Right Honourable Richard Wagner, P.C., Chief Justice of Canada 2012-10-05
2017-12-181
The Honourable Andromache Karakatsanis 2011-10-21
The Honourable Suzanne Côté 2014-12-01
The Honourable Malcolm Rowe 2016-10-28
The Honourable Sheilah L. Martin 2017-12-18
The Honourable Nicholas Kasirer 2019-09-16
The Honourable Mahmud Jamal 2021-07-01
The Honourable Michelle O'Bonsawin 2022-09-01
The Honourable Mary T. Moreau 2023-11-06

Former judges

List of former Supreme Court of Canada judges
Judge Date of appointment Date of departure
The Honourable Russell Brown 2015-08-31 2023-06-12
The Honourable Louis LeBel 2000-01-07 2014-11-29
The Honourable Michael J. Moldaver 2011-10-21 2022-08-31
The Honourable William Stevenson 1990-09-17 1992-06-04
The Honourable Rosalie Silberman Abella 2004-08-30 2021-06-30
The Honourable Clément Gascon 2014-06-09 2019-09-14
The Honourable Peter deCarteret Cory 1989-02-01 1999-05-31
The Right Honourable Robert George Brian Dickson, P.C., C.C., C.D. 1973-03-26
1984-04-181		 1984-04-18
1990-06-29
The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C., C.C. 1989-03-30
2000-01-071		 2000-01-07
2017-12-14
The Honourable Charles Doherty Gonthier 1989-02-01 2003-07-31
The Honourable Frank Iacobucci 1991-01-07 2004-06-30
The Honourable Jean-Thomas Taschereau, C.P. 1875-09-30 1878-10-06
The Honourable Louise Arbour 1999-09-15 2004-06-30
The Honourable Michel Bastarache 1997-09-30 2008-06-30
The Honourable Sir William Buell Richards 1875-09-301 1879-01-10
The Honourable William Ian Corneil Binnie 1998-01-08 2011-10-20
The Right Honourable Antonio Lamer, P.C., C.C., C.D. 1980-03-28
1990-07-011		 1990-07-01
2000-01-06
The Honourable Thomas Albert Cromwell 2008-12-22 2016-08-31
The Honourable Marshall Rothstein 2006-03-01 2015-08-30
The Honourable David Mills, P.C. 1902-02-08 1903-05-08
The Honourable Douglas Charles Abbott, P.C. 1954-07-01 1973-12-22
The Honourable Louis-Philippe Brodeur, P.C. 1911-08-11 1923-10-09
The Honourable Sir William Johnstone Ritchie 1875-09-30
1879-01-111		 1879-01-11
1892-09-25
The Honourable Télesphore Fournier, P.C. 1875-09-30 1895-09-11
The Right Honourable Robert Taschereau, P.C., C.C. 1940-02-09
1963-04-221		 1963-04-22
1967-08-31
The Right Honourable Sir Henri-Elzéar Taschereau, P.C. 1878-10-07
1902-11-211		 1902-11-21
1906-05-01
The Right Honourable Sir Samuel Henry Strong, P.C. 1875-09-30
1892-12-131		 1892-12-13
1902-11-17
The Honourable Morris J. Fish 2003-08-05 2013-08-30
The Honourable Marie Deschamps 2002-08-07 2012-08-06
The Honourable Julien Chouinard 1979-09-24 1987-02-06
The Honourable Louise Charron 2004-08-30 2011-08-29
The Honourable William Rogers McIntyre 1979-01-01 1989-02-14
The Honourable Jean Beetz 1974-01-01 1988-11-09
The Honourable Albert Blellock Hudson 1936-03-24 1947-01-06
The Honourable Albert Clements Killam 1903-08-08 1905-02-05
The Honourable Arthur Cyrille Albert Malouin 1924-01-30 1924-09-30
The Honourable Bertha Wilson 1982-03-04 1991-01-03
The Honourable Charles Holland Locke 1947-06-03 1962-09-15
The Honourable Christopher Salmon Patterson 1888-10-27 1893-07-24
The Honourable Claire L'Heureux-Dubé 1987-04-15 2002-06-30
The Honourable Désiré Girouard 1895-09-28 1911-03-22
The Honourable Edmund Leslie Newcombe 1924-09-16 1931-12-09
The Honourable Emmett Matthew Hall 1962-11-23 1973-02-28
The Honourable Frank Joseph Hughes 1933-03-17 1935-02-12
The Honourable George Edwin King 1893-09-21 1901-05-08
The Honourable Gerald Eric Le Dain 1984-05-29 1988-11-29
The Honourable Gérard Vincent La Forest 1985-01-16 1997-09-29
The Honourable Henry Grattan Nolan 1956-03-01 1957-07-08
The Honourable Henry Hague Davis 1935-01-31 1944-06-30
The Honourable Ivan Cleveland Rand 1943-04-22 1959-04-26
The Honourable James Maclennan 1905-10-05 1909-02-12
The Honourable James Wilfred Estey 1944-10-06 1956-01-22
The Honourable John C. Major 1992-11-13 2005-12-24
The Honourable John Douglas Armour 1902-11-21 1903-07-11
The Honourable John Henderson Lamont 1927-04-02 1936-03-10
The Honourable John Idington 1905-02-10 1927-03-30
The Honourable John Sopinka 1988-05-24 1997-11-24
The Honourable John Wellington Gwynne 1879-01-14 1902-01-07
The Honourable Lawrence Arthur Dumoulin Cannon 1930-01-14 1939-12-25
The Honourable Louis-Philippe de Grandpré 1974-01-01 1977-09-30
The Honourable Louis-Philippe Pigeon 1967-09-21 1980-02-07
The Honourable Mr. Justice Wallace Nesbitt 1903-05-16 1905-10-03
The Honourable Oswald Smith Crocket 1932-09-21 1943-04-12
The Honourable Patrick Kerwin, P.C. 1935-07-20
1954-07-011		 1954-07-01
1963-02-02
The Honourable Pierre-Basile Mignault 1918-10-25 1929-09-29
The Honourable Robert Sedgewick 1893-02-18 1906-08-04
The Honourable Robert Smith 1927-05-18 1933-12-06
The Honourable Roland Almon Ritchie 1959-05-05 1984-10-30
The Honourable Ronald Martland 1958-01-15 1982-02-09
The Honourable Roy Lindsay Kellock 1944-10-03 1958-01-14
The Honourable Wilfred Judson 1958-02-05 1977-07-19
The Honourable Willard Zebedee Estey 1977-09-29 1988-04-21
The Honourable William Alexander Henry 1875-09-30 1888-05-03
The Honourable Wishart Flett Spence 1963-05-30 1978-12-28
The Honourable Yves Pratte 1977-10-01 1979-06-29
The Right Honourable Bora Laskin, P.C., C.C. 1970-03-19
1973-12-271		 1973-12-27
1984-03-26
The Right Honourable Francis Alexander Anglin, P.C. 1909-02-23
1924-09-161		 1924-09-16
1933-02-27
The Right Honourable John Robert Cartwright, P.C., C.C., M.C. 1949-12-22
1967-09-011		 1967-09-01
1970-03-22
The Right Honourable Joseph Honoré Gérald Fauteux, P.C., C.C. 1949-12-22
1970-03-231		 1970-03-23
1973-12-22
The Right Honourable Sir Charles Fitzpatrick, P.C., G.C.M.G. 1906-06-041 1918-10-20
The Right Honourable Sir Louis Henry Davies, P.C., K.C.M.G. 1901-09-25
1918-10-231		 1918-10-23
1924-05-01
The Right Honourable Sir Lyman Poore Duff, P.C., G.C.M.G. 1906-09-27
1933-03-171		 1933-03-17
1944-01-06
The Right Honourable Thibaudeau Rinfret, P.C. 1924-10-01
1944-01-081		 1944-01-08
1954-06-21

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