Memorable Manitobans: Judges of Manitoba

The Court of Queen’s Bench (also known as the Court of King’s Bench, depending on the gender of the reigning monarch) was established in 1872 from its predecessor, the Manitoba Supreme Court. Its first two Justices were Louis Betournay and James McKeagney. The court also had appellate jurisdiction until this was transferred to the Court of Appeal in 1906. Joseph Dubuc, who was the Chief Justice of the Court of King’s Bench at the time of the creation of the Court of Appeal, continued to be Chief Justice of Manitoba until his retirement. Thereafter, the Chief Justice of the Court of Appeal is also the Chief Justice of Manitoba.

Judges in the Court of Appeal, Court of King’s or Queen’s Bench, and the former County Court / Surrogate Court (amalgamated with Queen’s Bench in 1984) are appointed and paid by the Canadian federal government, whereas those of the Provincial Court are appointed and paid by the Manitoba provincial government. The Police Court function has been assumed by the preceding courts so it no longer exists.

The Provincial Court was created on 1 January 1973, before which cases were handled by local magistrates and justices of the peace. The Provincial Court is the only Manitoba court with an exclusively original jurisdiction, hearing all its cases for the first time but no appeals.

Until recently, the Manitoba Provincial Courts included part-time as well as full-time judges. Not all part-time judges are included in the following list. As well, some judges of the Queen’s Bench and Court of Appeal were, prior to their appointment to federal courts, also part-time Provincial Court judges. These appointments are not denoted in the list.

Surname begins: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Judge	Court	Rank	Appointed	Retired / Status
Douglas N. Abra	KB	Puisne Judge	10 July 2007	current (part-time as of July 2017)
John Evans Adamson (1884-1961)	KB	Puisne Judge	1 May 1922	1 March 1961
	CA	Puisne Judge	30 January 1948	13 January 1955
		Chief Justice	24 January 1955	1 March 1961
Frank Dennison Allen (1927-1998)	PC	Judge	1 December 1980	31 October 1996
Herbert Lawrence “Larry” Allen	PC	Judge	29 January 2009	current
Laurie P. Allen	KB	Puisne Judge	6 October 1998	13 April 2015 (supernumerary)
Rudy Anderson	PC	Part-time Judge	?	31 March 1998
Francesco “Frank” Aquila	PC	Judge	21 December 1994	28 February 2000
	KB	Puisne Judge	28 February 2000	1 January 2016 (supernumerary)
William Davis Ardagh (1828-1893)	CC	Judge	11 July 1883	April 1893
George Thomas Armstrong (1881-1941)	CC	Judge	1 June 1929	9 September 1941
Jaroslaw William Arsenych (1889-1953)	CC	Judge	30 December 1947	29 June 1953
Philip Langlois Ashdown (1926-2018)	PC	Judge	25 June 1973	31 December 2001
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John Farquhar Bain (1849-1905)	KB	Puisne Judge	15 November 1887	12 May 1905
Gordon Jacob Barkman (1926-2018)	CC	Judge	27 April 1972	18 July 1983
		Chief Judge	18 July 1983	1 July 1984
	KB	Puisne Judge	1 July 1984	2 May 2001
Gregory Barrett (1867-1952)	CC	Judge	27 January 1917	31 December 1943
	KB	Puisne Judge	1935	?
Michael Baryluk (1915-1998)	PC	Judge	17 June 1968	1 August 1985
Geoffrey Bayly	PC	Judge	21 February 2020	current
Francis Martin Bastin (1896-1986)	KB	Puisne Judge	21 October 1959	25 December 1971
Holly C. Beard	KB	Puisne Judge	27 November 1992	9 September 2009
	CA	Puisne Judge	9 September 2009	current
Joseph Thomas Beaubien (1886-1957)	KB	Puisne Judge	30 January 1948	27 August 1952
	CA	Puisne Judge	27 August 1952	26 March 1957
Nicholas DuBois Dominic Beck (1857-1928)	SCC	Puisne Judge	1907	?
Leon Hermisdas “Leo” Benard (1899-1977)	CC	Judge	16 April 1961	1974
Hjalmar August Bergman (1881-1948)	CA	Puisne Judge	18 March 1944	20 January 1948
Leon Marc Alexandre Bernier (1886-1961)	CC	Judge	25 January 1950	12 February 1961
Joseph Bernier (1874-1951)	CC	Judge	14 June 1933	30 November 1949
Louis Bétournay (1825-1879)	KB	Puisne Judge	31 October 1872	30 October 1879
Sadie Bond	KB	Puisne Judge	11 April 2014	current
Angus Lorne Bonnycastle (1873-1941)	CC	Judge	18 December 1917	9 September 1941
Claudia Myrna Bowman (1932-2004)	PC	Part-time Judge	1971	1977
	KB	Puisne Judge	13 October 1983	March 2004
Curtis Matthew Briscoe	PC	Judge	23 March 2022	current
Donald P. Bryk	KB	Puisne Judge	16 February 1999	16 February 2014 (supernumerary)
Arthur Gordon Buckingham (1885-1961)	CC	Judge	1 January 1944	April 1960
Cyril William “Cy” Buckingham (1917-2019)	PC	Judge	1955	1983
William J. Burnett	KB	Puisne Judge	9 September 2009	3 February 2011
		Associate Chief Justice	3 February 2011	7 March 2013
	CA	Puisne Judge	7 March 2013	current
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Diana M. Cameron	KB	Puisne Judge	4 February 2011	2 November 2012
	CA	Puisne Judge	2 November 2012	current
John Donald Cameron (1858-1923)	KB	Puisne Judge	21 January 1908	26 March 1923
	CA	Puisne Judge	27 April 1909	26 March 1923
Archibald Charles Clark Campbell (1875-1955)	PC	Judge	September 1934	March 1945
Arnold Munroe Campbell (1892-1963)	KB	Puisne Judge	11 September 1947	13 February 1962
Catherine Carlson	PC	Judge	22 November 2006	current
Robert M. Carr (c1948-2023)	PC	Part-time Judge	?	13 October 1983
	KB	Puisne Judge	13 October 1983	14 December 2006 (supernumerary)
Stacy Cawley	PC	Judge	November 2019	current
Kenneth Champagne	PC	Judge	13 April 2005	April 2018
		Chief Judge	10 July 2009	9 July 2016
	KB	Puisne Judge	April 2018	current
Sandra L. Chapman	PC	Judge	4 August 2009	current
Gérald L. Chartier	KB	Puisne Judge	30 September 2010	current
Michel L. J. Chartier	PC	Judge	17 September 2007	18 March 2016
		Associate Chief Judge	18 September 2009	9 August 2013
Richard J. F. Chartier	PC	Judge	16 August 1993	22 November 2006
	CA	Puisne Judge	22 November 2006	8 March 2013
		Chief Justice	8 March 2013	October 2022
Christina Cheater	PC	Judge	21 February 2020	current
Lindy Choy	PC	Judge	12 June 2015	current
Michael Clark	PC	Judge	18 November 2021	current
Albert L. “Ab” Clearwater	KB	Puisne Judge	12 March 1992	10 July 2007 (supernumerary)
Stephen Emmett Clement (1867-1947)	CC	Judge	7 February 1927	1 January 1944
Sydney “Syd” Cohan (1931-2020)	PC	Judge	1976	31 March 1998
Bernard Raymond Coleman (1915-1993)	CC	Judge	1 November 1966	1 July 1984
	KB	Puisne Judge	1 July 1984	30 June 1990
Howard Collerman	PC	Judge	1 July 1975	4 January 2008
Brian G. Colli	PC	Judge	21 September 1994	30 May 2014
		Senior Judge	2 July 2014	current
John Combs	PC	Judge	26 March 2003	current
Arnold Jerome Conner (1942-2010)	PC	Judge	17 November 1976	3 December 2005
David Coppleman (c1936-2002)	PC	Judge	15 October 1975	8 September 2002
Brian M. Corrin	PC	Judge	4 March 1988	current
John Garrett Cory (1875-1948)	CC	Judge	18 February 1924	3 November 1948
Frederick W. Coward	PC	Judge	1 May 1970	1 March 1978
James Bowes Coyne (1878-1965)	CA	Puisne Judge	10 December 1946	31 August 1959
Raymond Joseph Barrett Cramer (?-2003)	PC	Judge	1 January 1973	27 April 1999
Thomas Dickey Cumberland (1853-1939)	CC	Judge	7 June 1893	1926
Robert G. Cummings	PC	Judge	28 September 1994	31 July 2008
	KB	Puisne Judge	31 July 2008	current
John Philpot Curran (1857-1928)	KB	Puisne Judge	24 October 1912	9 January 1928
Kathlyn Mary A. Curtis	PC	Judge	28 February 2001	19 April 2013
		Senior Judge	19 April 2013	current
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Thomas Mayne Daly (1852-1911)	CC	Judge	1909	1911
Wallace Michael Darichuk (1938-2017)	PC	Judge	1 August 1963	17 January 1977
	CC	Judge	17 January 1977	1 July 1984
	KB	Puisne Judge	1 July 1984	4 April 2005
Cheryl Marlene Davidson (1951-1997)	KB	Puisne Judge	28 August 1989	1997
Alexander Dawson (1849-1928)	CC	Judge	13 August 1907	25 February 1928
Eleanor R. Dawson	FC	Judge	1999	28 December 2009
	FCA	Judge	28 December 2009	supernumerary
Wilfred Robert DeGraves (1928-2015)	KB	Puisne Judge	4 October 1985	28 March 2003
Joseph Louis Alexandre Deniset (1919-1983)	KB	Puisne Judge	18 January 1965	1983
Robert Maxwell Dennistoun (1864-1952)	CA	Puisne Judge	2 July 1918	30 October 1946
Cynthia A. Devine	PC	Judge	24 July 2012	current
Susan V. Devine	PC	Judge	4 March 1988	4 April 2009
Archibald Stewart Dewar (1916-2001)	KB	Chief Justice	15 August 1973	1 July 1985
Robert A. Dewar	KB	Puisne Judge	9 September 2009	current
Robyn Moglove Diamond (1952-2018)	KB	Puisne Judge	5 October 1989	26 February 2011 (supernumerary)
Robert George Brian Dickson (1916-1998)	KB	Puisne Judge	31 October 1963	13 June 1967
	CA	Puisne Judge	13 June 1967	29 March 1973
	SCC	Puisne Judge	29 March 1973	19 April 1984
		Chief Justice	19 April 1984	30 June 1990
William James Donovan (1875-1949)	KB	Puisne Judge	30 March 1928	26 May 1949
Lori A. Douglas	KB	Puisne Judge	19 May 2005	14 May 2009
		Associate Chief Justice	14 May 2009	22 May 2015
Donovan J. Dovorak	PC	Judge	27 February 2013	current
Robert B. Doyle	KB	Puisne Judge	28 February 2000	current
Jack Peter Drapack (1939-2018)	PC	Judge	14 June 1982	13 December 2002
Ian Ventress Dubienski (1921-1998)	PC	Judge	1 August 1961	1 February 1989
		Senior Judge	1 January 1974	16 November 1983
		Associate Chief Justice	16 November 1983	18 January 1988
		Acting Chief Judge	18 January 1988	1 November 1988
Joseph Dubuc (1840-1914)	KB	Puisne Judge	13 November 1879	8 August 1903
		Chief Justice	8 August 1903	15 November 1909
Allan D. Dueck	KB	Puisne Judge	9 May 2014	current
John Alton Duncan (1932-2007)	KB	Puisne Judge	1 March 1991	7 April 2006
Kaye E. Dunlop	KB	Puisne Judge	26 June 2015	current
Armand Dureault (?-2017)	PC	Judge	July 1962	13 March 1974
	CC	Judge	13 March 1974	1 July 1984
	KB	Puisne Judge	1 July 1984	4 October 1998
Léa A. Duval	PC	Judge	4 March 1988	30 April 2001
	KB	Puisne Judge	27 November 1992	6 September 2011
Paul Guyot DuVal (1893-1970)	KB	Puisne Judge	1 February 1951	31 December 1958
Donovan J. Dvorak	PC	Judge	27 February 2013	current
		Associate Chief Judge	19 January 2022	current
Andrew Knox Dysart (1875-1952)	KB	Puisne Judge	3 October 1921	24 July 1952
	CA	Puisne Judge	11 September 1947	24 July 1952
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James Edmond	KB	Puisne Judge	1 October 2013	current
Judith Ann Elliott	PC	Judge	26 July 2000	1 January 2013
		Senior Judge	21 December 2012	current
John Johann Enns (1929-2020)	PC	Judge	17 June 1968	22 May 1999
A. Catherine Everett	PC	Judge	20 May 1998	22 November 2006
	KB	Puisne Judge	22 November 2006	current
Keith Eyrikson	PC	Judge	8 March 2019	current
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Stanley Harrison Fahrni (1889-1975)	CC	Judge	December 1943	1967
Lorne Paterson Ferg (1924-1985)	CC	Judge	2 November 1967	1 July 1984
	KB	Puisne Judge	1 July 1984	14 February 1985
Patrick David Ferg (1927-1998)	CC	Judge	26 August 1975	1 July 1984
	KB	Puisne Judge	1 July 1984	31 October 1994
William Graham Ferguson (1896-1964)	KB	Puisne Judge	7 April 1960	1 November 1963
Robin A. Finlayson	PC	Judge	31 January 2006	current
Allan H. Fitch	PC	Judge	8 June 1977	?
Henry Woodhull “Harry” Forrest (1916-2013)	PC	Judge	1 June 1974	1992
Julie Frederickson	PC	Judge	February 2018	current
Martin H. Freedman	CA	Puisne Judge	16 July 2002	12 September 2012
Samuel Freedman (1908-1993)	KB	Puisne Judge	8 April 1952	10 March 1960
	CA	Puisne Judge	10 March 1960	22 March 1971
		Chief Justice	22 March 1971	15 April 1983
Charles Percy Fullerton (1870-1938)	CA	Puisne Judge	20 July 1917	13 August 1931
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Kenneth J. Galanchuk	KB	Puisne Judge	11 October 1991	4 June 1998
Alexander Casimir Galt (1853-1936)	KB	Puisne Judge	24 October 1912	18 March 1933
Marvin Franklin Garfinkel	PC	Judge	5 December 1979	current
		Senior Judge	31 July 2014	current
Wanda M. Garreck	PC	Judge	19 November 2008	current
Alan Graeme Stuart Garson (1936-1994)	PC	Judge	3 March 1973	1 November 1980
Rodney Garson	PC	Judge	14 December 2006	16 August 2008
John Milton George (1887-1972)	CC	Judge	23 October 1941	May 1966
Brian Dale Giesbrecht	PC	Judge	25 August 1976	7 May 2007
Linda Marie Giesbrecht (1952-2013)	PC	Judge	4 March 1988	18 June 2010
Julian Rudolph Glowacki (1921-2002)	PC	Part-time Judge	March 1977	15 April 1978
Theodore M. “Ted” Glowacki	CC	Judge	6 October 1983	1 July 1984
	KB	Puisne Judge	1 July 1984	5 November 2004
Marilyn E. Goldberg	KB	Puisne Judge	16 July 2002	current
Jennifer Goldenberg	KB	Master	September 2018	current
Gilbert Raymond “Gil” Goodman (1934-2013)	KB	Puisne Judge	23 March 1984	21 November 2009
Candace Grammond	KB	Puisne Judge	20 October 2016	current
Shawn D. Greenberg	KB	Puisne Judge	28 October 2003	current
Roger J. C. Gregoire	PC	Judge	11 January 1990	29 September 2009
Sylvia Jean Guertin-Riley (1936-2023)	KB	Puisne Judge	26 July 1995	16 September 2011 (supernumerary)
John P. Guy	PC	Judge	15 May 1989	current
		Associate Chief Judge	18 October 2013	17 October 2020
Robert DuVal Guy (1912-1985)	CA	Puisne Judge	1 March 1961	30 April 1979
Harold Ffolliott Gyles (1927-2010)	PC	Judge	1 January 1963	15 February 1968
		Chief Judge	15 February 1968	1 May 1989
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Alexander Haggart (1848-1927)	CA	Puisne Judge	3 April 1912	1 November 1920
Gordon Clarke Hall (1921-1990)	KB	Puisne Judge	18 January 1965	14 May 1971
	CA	Puisne Judge	14 May 1971	15 April 1989
Alvin Chown Hamilton (1926-2014)	KB	Puisne Judge	1 January 1972	31 October 1983
		Associate Chief Justice	31 October 1983	15 March 1993
Barbara M. Hamilton	KB	Puisne Judge	26 July 1995	16 July 2002
	CA	Puisne Judge	16 July 2002	1 January 2014 (supernumerary)
Frank Alvin Earnest Hamilton (1881-1964)	PC	Judge	1925	January 1947
Kenneth R. Hanssen	KB	Puisne Judge	23 March 1984	5 January 2008 (supernumerary)
Christine Harapiak	PC	Judge	13 April 2005	current
David Bruce Harkness (1872-1948)	PC	Judge	1 December 1922	31 October 1925
Raymond Hamilton Harris (1926-2016)	PC	Judge	10 February 1972	31 December 1997
Dale Harvey	PC	Judge	10 July 2013	current
Mary Kathleen Harvie	PC	Judge	26 July 2000	current
		Associate Chief Judge	18 September 2002	17 September 2009
Gwen B. Hatch	KB	Puisne Judge	6 June 2013	current
Emerson Jonathan Heaney (1889-1963)	CC	Judge	January 1947	1959
Robert M. Heinrichs	PC	Judge	1 September 2009	June 2023
Bonnie M. Helper	PC	Judge	1 July 1978	13 October 1983
	KB	Puisne Judge	13 October 1983	30 June 1989
	CA	Puisne Judge	30 June 1989	4 April 2002
Catherine Hembroff	PC	Judge	16 July 2014	current
Benjamin Hewak (1935-2017)	CC	Judge	29 July 1971	20 September 1977
	KB	Puisne Judge	20 September 1977	22 August 1985
		Chief Justice	22 August 1985	1 January 2003
Shauna Hewitt-Michta	PC	Judge	29 January 2009	current
		Associate Chief Judge	2 August 2013	1 August 2020
A. Aubrey “Oz” Hirschfield (1924-2008)	KB	Puisne Judge	22 August 1985	10 January 1999
Hector Mansfield Howell (1842-1918)	CA	Puisne Judge	23 July 1906	15 November 1909
		Chief Justice	15 November 1909	7 April 1918
Murray W. Howell	PC	Judge	1 August 1985	20 October 2006
Charles Richard Huband (1932-2023)	CA	Puisne Judge	20 February 1979	23 February 2007
Alain Huberdeau	PC	Judge	24 September 2014	current
Albert Blellock Hudson (1875-1947)	SCC	Puisne Judge	1936	6 January 1947
John MacLean Hunt (1920-1984)	KB	Puisne Judge	22 November 1966	1 September 1982
Lori Ann Hunter	PC	Judge	January 2023	current
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Davie Ireland	PC	Judge	June 2023	current
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Allan F. James	PC	Judge	2 March 1978	31 December 1992 (supernumerary)
Gerald Oliver Jewers	CC	Judge	24 November 1977	1 July 1984
	KB	Puisne Judge	1 July 1984	19 May 2007
Ross Adair Johnston (1930-2020)	PC	Judge	15 February 1969	1 July 1994
William R. Johnston	KB	Puisne Judge	30 July 2009	current
Glenn D. Joyal	PC	Judge	25 November 1998	2 March 2007
	CA	Puisne Judge	2 March 2007	22 June 2007
	KB	Puisne Judge	22 June 2007	22 January 2009
		Associate Chief Justice	22 January 2009	3 February 2011
		Chief Justice	3 February 2011	current
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Mark Kantor	PC	Judge	June 2023	current
Morris Kaufman	KB	Puisne Judge	6 October 1998	15 November 2010 (supernumerary)
Clarence Garfield Keith (1881-1964)	CC	Judge	1 December 1949	30 May 1957
Clarence Irving Keith (1908-1989)	CC	Judge	19 October 1964	1983
John Joseph Kelly (1898-1952)	KB	Puisne Judge	10 August 1949	2 April 1952
Daniel Patrick “Dan” Kennedy (1939-2017)	CC	Judge	30 August 1978	1 July 1984
	KB	Puisne Judge	1 July 1984	30 August 2009
John Cochrane Kerr (1920-1982)	CC	Judge	1 May 1960	1 December 1976
Brenda L. Keyser	KB	Puisne Judge	3 October 1995	4 April 2014 (supernumerary)
James Frederick Kilgour (1874-1931)	KB	Puisne Judge	8 September 1927	27 November 1931
Albert Clements Killam (1849-1908)	KB	Puisne Judge	3 February 1885	23 July 1903
		Chief Justice	15 April 1889	8 August 1903
	SCC	Puisne Judge	8 August 1903	6 February 1905
Timothy J. P. Killeen	PC	Judge	24 July 2012	June 2023
Edwin Charles Kimelman (1925-2007)	PC	Judge	28 May 1975	2 July 1999
		Senior Judge	1 July 1977	16 November 1983
		Associate Chief Judge	16 November 1983	1 July 1994
Robert Lionel Kopstein (1932-2014)	PC	Judge	15 September 1971	15 April 2006
Anne Krahn	PC	Judge	5 June 2013	current
		Associate Chief Judge	?	13 September 2022
C. Ruth Krindle	CC	Judge	18 September 1980	1 July 1984
	KB	Puisne Judge	1 July 1984	8 April 2002
David J. Kroft	KB	Puisne Judge	20 October 2016	current
Guy Joseph Kroft (1934-2020)	KB	Puisne Judge	20 February 1979	1 February 1993
	CA	Puisne Judge	1 February 1993	31 October 2006
Donald Campbell Murray Kyle (1898-1962)	PC	Judge	1956	1962
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Henri Lacerte (1889-1968)	PC	Judge	1924	1967
Sheldon W. Lanchbery	KB	Puisne Judge	6 June 2013	current
Janice leMaistre	PC	Judge	22 November 2006	26 June 2015
		Associate Chief Judge	10 September 2009	26 June 2015
	CA	Puisne Judge	26 June 2015	current
Sidney B. Lerner	PC	Judge	4 August 1999	current
Walter Jacobson Lindal (1887-1976)	CC	Judge	24 January 1942	22 April 1962
Theodore Joseph Lismer (?-2023)	PC	Judge	17 January 1977	current
Donald Mark Little	KB	Puisne Judge	10 February 1998	current
Charles Holland Locke (1887-1980)	SCC	Puisne Judge	3 June 1947	16 September 1962
Corbet Locke (1854-1932)	CC	Judge	15 November 1894	1 February 1929
George Hepworth Lockwood (1923-2002)	PC	Judge	21 February 1973	30 August 1978
	CC	Judge	30 August 1978	1 July 1984
	KB	Puisne Judge	1 July 1984	30 April 1994
Tracey M. Lord	PC	Judge	19 November 2008	2 July 2019
		Associate Chief Judge	2 July 2019	current
Sterling Rufus Lyon (1927-2010)	CA	Puisne Judge	19 December 1986	30 January 2002
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Daniel Alexander Macdonald (1858-1937)	KB	Puisne Judge	23 July 1906	28 October 1937
		Chief Justice	8 September 1927	28 October 1937
Ambrose Roy MacDonell (1901-1966)	CC	Judge	1 January 1944	30 January 1966
Alan D. MacInnes	PC	Part-time Judge	4 July 1979	27 November 1992
	KB	Puisne Judge	27 November 1992	10 July 2007
	CA	Puisne Judge	10 July 2007	31 December 2010 (supernumerary)
Joan A. MacPhail	KB	Puisne Judge	22 January 2009	current
Neil Gerard MacPhee (1918-2014)	PC	Judge	1 January 1973	19 December 1979 (supernumerary)
Ewan Alexander MacPherson (1878-1954)	KB	Chief Justice	23 November 1937	18 March 1944
	CA	Chief Justice	18 March 1944	18 November 1954
Christopher J. Mainella	KB	Puisne Judge	4 October 2012	1 October 2013
	CA	Puisne Judge	1 October 2013	current
William James Major (1881-1953)	KB	Puisne Judge	14 March 1941	31 July 1951
David Arnold Mann	PC	Judge	November 2020	current
Francis McDonald “Mac” Manwaring (1915-1997)	PC	Judge	1 January 1973	1 February 1980
William “Wild Bill” Marantz	PC	Judge	?	28 January 1987
David Marr	PC	Part-time	2 September 1977	31 March 1998
Christopher W. Martin	KB	Puisne Judge	22 January 2009	current
Lee Ann M. Martin	PC	Judge	17 September 2007	current
		Associate Chief Judge	14 September 2022	current
William Robert “Bill” Martin (1929-2019)	PC	Judge	1 May 1970	1 July 1994
Roy Joseph Matas (1920-1986)	KB	Puisne Judge	13 June 1967	15 August 1973
	CA	Puisne Judge	15 August 1973	1986
Thomas Graham Mathers (1859-1927)	KB	Puisne Judge	24 August 1905	15 August 1927
		Chief Justice	7 February 1910	15 August 1927
Florence Antoinette Matthews (c1930-2012)	PC	?	?	?
Jane Mauer	PC	Part-time	1 November 1977	28 January 1987
Harold Frederick Maulson (1876-1952)	CC	Judge	3 November 1919	August 1928
Harold Ralph Maybank (1890-1965)	KB	Puisne Judge	31 July 1951	?
Jean McBride	PC	Judge	18 June 2008	current
Shauna McCarthy	PC	Judge	8 March 2019	?
	KB	Puisne Judge	?	current
Deborah J. McCawley	KB	Puisne Judge	16 September 1997	26 May 2014 (supernumerary)
Bruce Phipps McDonald (1918-2005)	PC	Judge	17 January 1962	6 December 1993
Malcolm W. McDonald	PC	Judge	3 February 2010	current
		Associate Chief Judge	1 August 2010	January 2022
Theresa L. McDonald	PC	Judge	11 October 2018	January 2023
James Charles McKeagney (1815-1879)	KB	Puisne Judge	7 October 1872	14 September 1879
Joan G. McKelvey	KB	Puisne Judge	27 September 2001	current
Kael McKenzie	PC	Judge	December 2015	current
Alexander Nugent McPherson (1857-1938)	CC	Judge	27 December 1923	1933
Gordon B. McTavish	PC	Judge	27 September 1971	2 July 1999
John A. Menzies	KB	Puisne Judge	7 August 1996	current
Gerald W. J. Mercier	KB	Puisne Judge	5 October 1989	1 April 1993
		Associate Chief Justice	1 April 1993	7 April 2014
Thomas Llewellyn Metcalfe (1870-1922)	KB	Puisne Judge	22 May 1909	2 April 1922
	CA	Puisne Judge	3 October 1921	2 April 1922
Ronald Jerome Meyers (1933-2010)	PC	Judge	1 November 1977	4 January 2010
Charles Julius Mickle (1848-1919)	CC	Judge	18 June 1909	October 1919
Brian C. Midwinter	PC	Judge	18 October 2006	18 June 2008
	KB	Puisne Judge	18 June 2008	18 September 2014
Bruce Harold Miller (c1950-2004)	PC	Judge	21 December 1994	13 April 2005
		Associate Chief Judge	15 March 1995	13 April 2005
		Acting Chief Judge	24 October 2001	10 July 2002
Calvert Charlton Miller (1899-1978)	KB	Puisne Judge	19 February 1959	21 October 1959
	CA	Puisne Judge	21 October 1959	1 March 1961
		Chief Justice	1 March 1961	1 February 1967
Clive Miller (1928-2008)	CC	Judge	8 November 1979	1 July 1984
	KB	Puisne Judge	1 July 1984	20 June 1991
James Andrew Miller (1839-1886)	KB	Puisne Judge	20 October 1880	3 December 1882
Samuel “Sam” Minuk (1927-2015)	PC	Judge	7 July 1970	4 March 2005
Lore Marie Mirwaldt	KB	Puisne Judge	20 October 2016	current
Lawrence Ross “Lawrie” Mitchell (c1931-1997)	PC	Judge	1 November 1968	1 July 1994
Kelly Moar	PC	Judge	13 April 2005	current
William Austin Molloy (1917-1988)	CC	Judge	1 December 1956	23 August 1978
Alfred Maurice Monnin (1920-2013)	KB	Puisne Judge	18 April 1957	1 January 1962
	CA	Puisne Judge	1 January 1962	16 April 1983
		Chief Justice	16 April 1983	31 January 1990
Marc Maurice Monnin	KB	Puisne Judge	27 August 1997	26 March 2003
		Chief Justice	26 March 2003	3 February 2011
	CA	Puisne Judge	3 February 2011	1 September 2016 (supernumerary)
Michel A. Monnin	KB	Puisne Judge	23 March 1984	3 August 1995
	CA	Puisne Judge	3 August 1995	1 July 2013 (supernumerary)
John Percival “Price” Montague (1882-1966)	KB	Puisne Judge	11 March 1932	1 February 1951
	CA	Puisne Judge	1 February 1951	1 September 1959
James Ignatius Morkin (1882-1971)	CC	Judge	1 December 1949	1 December 1956
Ronald Joseph Morlock (1930-2009)	PC	Judge	8 June 1977	1 July 1994
Alexander Morris (1826-1889)	KB	Chief Justice	2 July 1872	1 December 1872
Peter Scott Morse (1927-2018)	KB	Puisne Judge	27 March 1975	1 May 2002
Francis Creighton “Frank” Muldoon (1930-2013)	FC	Judge	1983	?
Joseph A. Mullally	KB	Puisne Judge	21 June 1984	7 April 2007
Thomas Joseph Murray (1875-1954)	PC	Judge	August 1934	1946
Robert Hill Myers (1856-1921)	CC	Judge	14 January 1903	16 November 1921
Rodney H. Mykle	PC	Judge	20 May 1975	22 September 1989
	KB	Puisne Judge	22 September 1989	30 August 2012
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Charles Kenning Newcombe (1943-2015)	PC	Judge	1 February 1980	23 July 2008
Frank Wright Newman (1900-1977)	CC	Judge	23 November 1962	28 June 1977
Israel Nitikman (1905-1988)	KB	Puisne Judge	2 February 1962	25 June 1980
Winston Ewart “Wynn” Norton (?-2011)	PC	Judge	7 July 1980	28 April 2003
Nathan “Nate” Nurgitz (1934-2019)	KB	Puisne Judge	10 February 1993	15 September 2008
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Jeffrey J. Oliphant	KB	Puisne Judge	22 August 1985	31 August 2013
Joseph Francis O’Sullivan (1927-1992)	CA	Puisne Judge	24 July 1975	1 December 1992
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George Paterson (1857-1923)	CC	Judge	21 March 1911	9 August 1923
Robert Patterson	KB	Master	September 2018	current
William Egerton Perdue (1850-1933)	KB	Puisne Judge	25 August 1903	30 December 1929
	CA	Puisne Judge	23 July 1906	25 May 1918
		Chief Justice	25 May 1918	30 December 1929
Shane I. Perlmutter	KB	Puisne Judge	4 February 2011	current
	KB	Associate Chief Justice	7 March 2013	current
Kenneth Brian Peters	PC	Judge	21 February 1973	1 September 2004
Jennifer Ann Pfuetzner	KB	Puisne Judge	2014	26 June 2015
	CA	Puisne Judge	26 June 2015	current
Alan Reed Philp (1930-2022)	CC	Chief Judge	15 August 1973	5 May 1983
	CA	Puisne Judge	5 May 1983	3 August 2005
Cecil Bray Philp (1891-1991)	CC	Judge	31 August 1949	19 October 1964
Frank Hedley Phippen (1863-1932)	CA	Puisne Judge	23 July 1906	15 April 1909
Anthony John Pilutik	PC	Judge	1 January 1973	6 February 1976
Robert L. “Rocky” Pollack	PC	Judge	15 December 2006	current
David Grant Potter (1893-1956)	PC	Judge	July 1945	1956
James Emile Pierre Prendergast (1858-1945)	CC	Judge	5 June 1897	January 1903
	KB	Puisne Judge	7 February 1910	18 March 1944
	CA	Puisne Judge	1 May 1922	30 December 1929
		Chief Justice	30 December 1929	18 March 1944
Timothy Preston	PC	Judge	30 April 2003	current
Louis Arthur Prud’Homme (1853-1941)	CC	Judge	31 August 1885	February 1925
Heather R. Pullan	PC	Judge	21 December 1994	current
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R
Todd Rambow	PC	Judge	8 December 2016	current
Samuel Raposo	PC	Judge	October 2020	current
Doreen Redhead	PC	Judge	4 April 2007	current
Herbert Rempel	KB	Puisne Judge	2 December 2011	current
Isaac Rice (1911-1969)	PC	Judge	1955	1969
Arthur Allan Rich (1922-2000)	PC	Part-time	1969	31 March 1998
Albert Elswood Richards (1848-1917)	KB	Puisne Judge	1 May 1899	23 July 1906
	CA	Puisne Judge	23 July 1906	27 May 1917
Stephen Elswood Richards (1878-1950)	CA	Judge	11 March 1932	17 October 1950
Lawrence “Larry” Ring	PC	Judge	2 September 1977	1987
Marianne Rivoalen	KB	Puisne Judge	2 February 2005	22 May 2015
		Associate Chief Justice	22 May 2015	20 September 2018
	FCA	Judge	20 September 2018	1 June 2023
	CA	Chief Justice	1 June 2023	current
Hugh Amos Robson (1871-1945)	KB	Puisne Judge	23 June 1910	May 1912
	CA	Puisne Judge	31 December 1929	18 March 1944
	KB	Chief Justice	18 March 1944	9 July 1945
Carena Roller	PC	Judge	17 September 2007	current
Ryan Rolston	PC	Judge	19 December 2014	9 July 2023
		Chief Judge	9 July 2023	current (9 July 2030)
Gerard Roozendaal	PC	Judge	1 January 1973	1976
Donald Alexander Ross (1892-1981)	CC	Judge	14 October 1953	1967
Marshall Rothstein	FC	Puisne Judge	1992	1999
	FCA	Puisne Judge	1999	1 March 2006
	SCC	Puisne Judge	1 March 2006	current
Louis Philippe Roy (1889-1963)	CC	Judge	11 February 1925	January 1950
Charles Nathan “Chuck” Rubin (1932-2022)	PC	Judge	6 July 1966	20 April 2007
Manly Rusen	PC	Part-time Judge	1975	31 March 1998
Rachel Rusen	PC	Judge	18 November 2021	current
Joseph O’Connell Ryan (1841-1938)	CC	Judge	5 July 1882	31 December 1916
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Nellie McNichol “Nic” Sanders (1906-1990)	PC	Judge	August 1957	21 January 1987
Fred H. Sandhu	PC	Judge	30 April 2003	6 July 2012
		Senior Judge	14 August 2012	current
Richard A. Saull	KB	Puisne Judge	10 February 2010	current
Dale C. Schille	PC	Judge	19 May 2010	current
Perry W. Schulman	KB	Puisne Judge	28 May 1993	1 July 2008 (supernumerary)
Ivan Schultz (1891-1974)	CA	Puisne Judge	13 January 1955	22 November 1966
Sidney Irwin Schwartz (c1933-2021)	CC	Judge	18 July 1983	1 July 1984
	KB	Puisne Judge	1 July 1984	5 April 2004
John Ambrose Scollin (1927-2015)	KB	Puisne Judge	16 July 1981	1 November 1999
Richard Jamieson Scott	KB	Puisne Judge	28 June 1985	4 October 1985
		Associate Chief Justice	4 October 1985	31 July 1990
	CA	Chief Justice	31 July 1990	1 March 2013
John Morgan Scurfield (1951-2009)	KB	Puisne Judge	16 July 2002	14 November 2009
Kusham Sharma	PC	Judge	February 2018	current
Cindy Lee Sholdice	PC	Judge	October 2020	current
Karen I. Simonsen	KB	Puisne Judge	9 December 2004	31 August 2018
	CA	Judge	31 August 2018	current
Vern Simonsen (1931-2018)	KB	Puisne Judge	30 September 1982	5 October 1997
Frank Elgin Simpson (1879-1947)	CC	Judge	28 August 1928	25 August 1947
Calvin Murray Sinclair	PC	Associate Chief Judge	4 March 1988	31 January 2001
	KB	Puisne Judge	31 January 2001	2 April 2016
Vincent George Sinclair	PC	Judge	23 March 2022	current
Donald R. Slough	PC	Judge	28 July 2010	current
Charles Rhodes Smith (1896-1993)	KB	Puisne Judge	25 May 1963	22 November 1966
	CA	Puisne Judge	22 November 1966	13 June 1967
		Chief Justice	13 June 1967	19 March 1971
Frank G. Smith (c1916-1990)	PC	Judge	?	?
James Gordon “Jim” Smith (1932-2001)	CC	Judge	6 April 1982	1 July 1984
	KB	Puisne Judge	1 July 1984	1 November 1998
Marva J. Smith	PC	Judge	27 October 1999	6 July 2012
		Senior Judge	14 August 2012	current
Robert Smith (1839-1885)	KB	Puisne Judge	27 June 1884	19 January 1885
John Roman Solomon (1910-1985)	CC	Puisne Judge	18 April 1957	14 May 1971
	KB	Puisne Judge	14 May 1971	30 November 1983
Clarence Coates Sparling (1900-1984)	PC	Judge	1965	1978
Harvey Dennis Sparling (1896-1976)	PC	Judge	1957	1962
Lori T. Spivak	KB	Puisne Judge	19 May 2005	current
Richard Alexander Stacpoole (1868-1948)	CC	Judge	17 July 1924	1 January 1944
Lynn A. Stannard	PC	Judge	4 August 1999	6 February 2018
		Senior Judge	6 February 2018	current
Freda M. Steel	KB	Puisne Judge	3 October 1995	28 February 2000
	CA	Puisne Judge	28 February 2000	1 May 2014 (supernumerary)
Bruce Steen	PC	Judge	?	?
Kristjan Fredric Stefanson (1944-2016)	PC	Judge	1 September 1979	28 May 1993
		Chief Judge	1 November 1988	28 May 1993
	KB	Puisne Judge	28 May 1993	20 November 2008 (supernumerary)
Bjorn “Bjossi” Stefansson (1888-1963)	PC	Judge	c1945	c1961
Brent D. Stewart	PC	Judge	15 April 1998	current
Alexander John Stringer (1903-1969)	PC	Judge	November 1959	1969
Lewis St. George Stubbs (1878-1958)	CC	Judge	3 April 1922	1933
Roy St. George Stubbs (1907-1995)	PC	Judge	1 January 1973	31 July 1982
P. Colleen Suche	KB	Puisne Judge	16 July 2002	current
Patrick Sullivan	PC	Judge	4 February 2021	current
Wesley Herbert Swail	PC	Judge	1 January 1981	3 February 2006
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Krystyna D. Tarwid	PC	Judge	6 July 1994	22 January 2013
Fawcett Gowler Taylor (1878-1940)	KB	Puisne Judge	28 March 1933	2 January 1940
Thomas Wardlaw Taylor (1833-1917)	KB	Puisne Judge	5 January 1883	22 October 1887
		Chief Justice	22 October 1887	1 April 1899
Regan Thatcher	KB	Puisne Judge	26 June 2015	current
John William McLeod Thompson (1908-1986)	CC	Judge	October 1962	?
Murray Thompson	PC	Judge	26 March 2003	current
		Associate Chief Judge	2 August 2006	1 August 2013
Richard Ward Thompson	PC	Judge	8 January 1983	11 June 2010
Michael A. Thomson	KB	Puisne Judge	1 June 2007	current
Robert Merle Bruce Toews (1931-1987)	PC	Judge	5 August 1980	2 November 1986
Victor “Vic” Toews	KB	Puisne Judge	6 March 2014	current
George Eric Tritschler (1901-1993)	CA	Puisne Judge	18 April 1957	3 January 1962
	KB	Chief Justice	3 January 1962	15 July 1973
Robert Edmond “Bob” Trudel (c1925-2013)	PC	Judge	16 January 1967	16 March 1988
Walter Harley Trueman (1870-1951)	CA	Puisne Judge	14 April 1923	1 January 1947
Archibald Kerr Twaddle (1932-2015)	CA	Puisne Judge	22 August 1985	7 November 2007
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Patti-Anne L. Umpherville	PC	Judge	17 September 2007	current
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David Marr Walker (1835-1920)	CC	Judge	19 August 1892	March 1911
Jack Samuel Walker (?-1994)	PC	Judge	?	?
Lewis Wallbridge (1816-1887)	KB	Chief Justice	12 December 1882	20 October 1887
Melford Seldon Watson (1890-1979)	PC	Judge	1946	1960
Mary Annie Wawrykow (1911-1977)	PC	Judge	1 January 1973	8 June 1977
Judith M. Webster	PC	Judge	15 May 1989	9 June 2006
		Chief Judge	15 December 1993	24 October 2001
Henry Walter Whitla (1874-1956)	CC	Judge	14 June 1933	30 November 1949
Margaret I. Wiebe	PC	Judge	12 December 2012	current
		Chief Judge	10 July 2016	9 July 2023
Esten Kenneth Williams (1889-1970)	KB	Chief Justice	10 December 1946	2 January 1962
James Edward “Jimmy” Wilson (1914-1989)	KB	Puisne Judge	6 July 1965	31 August 1988
Edmund Burke Wood (1820-1882)	KB	Chief Justice	11 March 1874	7 October 1882
Walter Scott Wright	KB	Puisne Judge	15 August 1973	1 May 2004
Raymond E. Wyant	PC	Judge	20 May 1998	May 2014
		Chief Judge	10 July 2002	9 July 2009
		Senior Judge	16 September 2014	current
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Douglas D. Yard	KB	Puisne Judge	13 October 1998	14 April 2014
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See also:

Memorable Manitobans: Magistrates of Manitoba

History of Manitoba Courts by Frederick Read, Manitoba Bar News, Vol. 10, No. 1-2, 1937.

Notes

2. Ranks: A Puisne Judge is a judge who is not Chief Justice or Associate Chief Justice. A Supernumerary Judge is a federally-appointed judge who has elected, after at least 15 years of service and whose combined age and years of service total at least 80, or whose age exceeds 70 years with at least 10 years of service, to give up their regular judicial duties and have a reduced workload.

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Winnipeg Law Courts Building (391 Broadway, Winnipeg)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: International Business Machines Building (373 Broadway, Winnipeg)

Sources:

“New judges named,” Winnipeg Free Press, 15 December 1972, page 27.

The Court of Queen’s Bench of Manitoba, 1870-1950: A Biographical History by Dale Brawn, Toronto: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2006, 432 pages.

Tales From the Underworld and Other Stories by Roland Penner and Norm Larsen, Winnipeg: Penner and Larsen in association with Heartland Associates, 2009, 192 pages.

Manitoba Courts - Court of Appeal, Court of Queen’s Bench and Provincial Court.

“Province announces appointment of new provincial court judge,” Manitoba News Release, 19 December 2014.

“Judge steps down amid impaired-driving charge,” Winnipeg Free Press, 18 March 2016.

“New judges appointed to Manitoba court,” CBC News, 20 October 2016.

“Government of Canada announces judicial appointments in the province of Manitoba,” Department of Justice News Release, 20 October 2016.

“Province announces appointments of two Masters of the Court of Queen’s Bench,” Manitoba Justice News Release, 27 August 2018.

“Province announces appointment of provincial court judges,” Manitoba Justice News Release, 8 March 2019.

“The Honourable Marianne Rivoalen,” Federal Court of Appeal.

“Province announces appointment of provincial court judges in Dauphin,” Manitoba Justice News Release, 21 February 2020.

“Province announces appointment of new provincial court judge,” Manitoba Justice News Release, 30 October 2020.

“Province announces appointment of new provincial court judge,” Manitoba Justice News Release, 4 February 2021.

“Province announces appointment of two new provincial court judges,” Manitoba Justice News Release, 18 November 2021.

“Province announces appointment of Associate Chief Judge,” Manitoba News Release, 21 January 2022.

“Province appoints two new judges in Thompson Provincial Court,” Manitoba News Release, 23 March 2022.

“Manitoba government appoints new Associate Chief Judge in Provincial Court,” Manitoba News Release, 14 September 2022.

We thank Nathan Kramer, Norm Larsen, Pat Bourbonnais, Robert Dawson, and Bill Emslie for providing additional information used here.

This page was compiled by Gordon Goldsborough with assistance of The Honorable Mr. Justice Robert M. Carr of the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench and The Honorable Mr. Justice Michel A. Monnin of the Manitoba Court of Appeal. We thank Sandy Kuchinski of Manitoba Justice for providing additional information.

Page revised: 11 September 2023

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