Members of the Supreme Court of British Columbia

The Members of the Supreme Court can be viewed alphabetically or by location.

Chief Justice


The Honourable Chief Justice Robert J. Bauman
  • Appointed to Supreme Court June 20, 1996
  • Appointed to Court of Appeal February 20, 2008
  • Appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court September 9, 2009
Associate Chief Justice


The Honourable Associate Chief Justice Austin F. Cullen
  • Appointed to Supreme Court March 21, 2001
  • Appointed Associate Chief Justice of the Supreme Court December 31, 2011
Current Justices (alphabetical)

Mr. Justice Patrice Abrioux (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court September 30, 2011
Madam Justice Elaine J. Adair (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court November 28, 2008
Mr. Justice Kenneth N. Affleck (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court June 24, 2011
Mr. Justice Trevor C. Armstrong (New Westminster)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court October 1, 2010
Madam Justice Elizabeth A. Arnold-Bailey (New Westminster)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court April 14, 2005
Madam Justice Wendy G. Baker (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court May 28, 1993
Madam Justice Sandra K. Ballance (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court December 11, 2002;
Mr. Justice G. Barrow (Kelowna)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court December 14, 2001
Madam Justice Alison J. Beames (Kelowna)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court August 7, 1996
Mr. Justice Lance W. Bernard (New Westminster)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court July 24, 2003
Mr. Justice D. Allan Betton (Kelowna)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court June 24, 2011
Mr. Justice Richard M. L. Blair (Kamloops)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court June 24, 1992
Mr. Justice Murray B. Blok (New Westminster)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court October 28, 2010
Mr. Justice Gregory T.W. Bowden (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court October 2, 2009
Madam Justice Mary-Ellen Boyd (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to County Court December 5, 1985
  • Appointed to Supreme Court July 1, 1990
Mr. Justice J. Keith Bracken (Victoria)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court March 30, 2007
Madam Justice Brenda Brown (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court April 18, 2002
Mr. Justice Neill Brown (New Westminster)
  • Appointed to the Supreme Court July 30, 2008
Madam Justice Catherine J. Bruce (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court September 14, 2006
Mr. Justice Grant D. Burnyeat (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court December 19, 1996
Mr. Justice G. Bruce Butler (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court March 30, 2007
Mr. Justice Bruce I. Cohen (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court March 25, 1987
Mr. Justice Frank W. Cole (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court March 19, 1996
Mr. Justice R. Crawford (New Westminster)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court September 27, 2001
Mr. Justice Victor R. Curtis (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to County Court March 11, 1986
  • Appointed to Supreme Court July 1, 1990
Madam Justice D. Jane Dardi (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court June 18, 2008
Mr. Justice Barry M. Davies (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court January 10, 1996
Madam Justice Gail Dickson (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court December 15, 2006
Madam Justice Janice R. Dillon (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court April 25, 1995
Mr. Justice S. Dev Dley (Kamloops)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court March 19, 2010
Madam Justice Jacqueline L. Dorgan (Victoria)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court October 11, 1991
Mr. Justice William Ehrcke (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court October 28, 2003
Madam Justice Lauri Ann Fenlon (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court January 31, 2008
Madam Justice Barbara Fisher (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court November 26, 2004
Mr. Justice Gregory J. Fitch (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court October 20, 2011
Madam Justice Shelley C. Fitzpatrick (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court June 18, 2010
Mr. Justice Geoffrey R. J. Gaul (Victoria)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court January 31, 2008
Madam Justice Laura B. Gerow (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court October 10, 2002
Mr. Justice R.B.T. Goepel (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court September 27, 2001
Mr. Justice J. Christopher Grauer (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court April 11, 2008
Madam Justice Victoria Gray (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court September 27, 2001
Mr. Justice Bruce M. Greyell (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court May 14, 2009
Madam Justice Susan A. Griffin (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court February 20, 2008
Mr. Justice William G.E. Grist (Chilliwack)
  • Appointed Master of the Supreme Court January 1, 1990
  • Appointed to Supreme Court June 20, 1996
Madam Justice J. Miriam Gropper (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court April 14, 2005
Mr. Justice Joel R. Groves (Vancouver)
  • Appointed Master of the Supreme Court May 4, 2000
  • Appointed to Supreme Court May 19, 2005
Mr. Justice D.A. Halfyard (Nanaimo)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court July 1, 1999
Mr. Justice John S. Harvey (New Westminster)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court January 22, 2009
Madam Justice Heather J. Holmes (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court March 21, 2001
Madam Justice Mary A. Humphries (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court January 27, 1994
Madam Justice Hope Hyslop (Kamloops)
  • Appointed Master of the Supreme Court March 21, 2003
  • Appointed to Supreme Court May 14, 2009
Mr. Justice Robert W. Jenkins (New Westminster)
  • Appointed to the Supreme Court December 31, 2011
Mr. Justice Robert Johnston (Victoria)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court November 26, 2004
Mr. Justice Ian B. Josephson (New Westminster)
  • Appointed to County Court October 4, 1989
  • Appointed to Supreme Court July 1, 1990
Mr. Justice Brian M. Joyce (Chilliwack)
  • Appointed Master of the Supreme Court December 1, 1989
  • Appointed to Supreme Court April 4, 2001
Mr. Justice Stephen F. Kelleher (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court July 24, 2003
Madam Justice Kathleen M. Ker (New Westminster)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court June 18, 2008
Madam Justice Deborah Kloegman (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court February 13, 1996
Madam Justice M. Marvyn Koenigsberg (Smithers)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court November 27, 1992
Mr. Justice Peter D. Leask (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court November 22, 2005
Madam Justice Linda A. Loo (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court September 24, 1996
Mr. Justice Malcolm D. Macaulay (Victoria)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court March 4, 1997
Mr. Justice Brian D. MacKenzie (Nanaimo)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court October 23, 2009
Madam Justice Miriam A. Maisonville (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court March 19, 2010
Mr. Justice David M. Masuhara (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court October 11, 2002
Mr. Justice T. Mark McEwan (Nelson)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court August 7, 1996
Mr. Justice Ronald A. McKinnon (New Westminster)
  • Appointed to County Court December 5, 1985
  • Appointed to Supreme Court July 1, 1990
Mr. Justice Ian C. Meiklem (Kamloops)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court October 11, 1991
Mr. Justice Thomas J. Melnick (Cranbrook)
  • Appointed to County Court October 23, 1987
  • Appointed to Supreme Court July 1, 1990
Mr. Justice Robert W. Metzger (Victoria)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court June 20, 2000
Mr. Justice Elliott M. Myers (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court November 22, 2005
Mr. Justice W. Glen Parrett (Prince George)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court February 16, 1990
Mr. Justice Paul J. Pearlman (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court January 31, 2008
Madam Justice Jennifer A. Power (Nanaimo)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court August 6, 2010
Mr. Justice Robert E. Powers (Kamloops)
  • Appointed Master of the Supreme Court November 20, 1989
  • Appointed to Supreme Court December 16, 1999
Mr. Justice Robert D. Punnett (Prince Rupert)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court June 19, 2009
Mr. Justice Peter J. Rogers (Kelowna)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court December 14, 2001
Mr. Justice Selwyn R. Romilly (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court November 15, 1995
Madam Justice Carol J. Ross (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court March 21, 2001
Madam Justice Loryl D. Russell (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court April 14, 2005
Mr. Justice Anthony Saunders (New Westminster)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court November 26, 2009
Mr. Justice John E.D. Savage (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court May 5, 2008
Mr. Justice Terence A. Schultes (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court May 14, 2009
Mr. Justice Robert J. Sewell (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court January 22, 2009
Mr. Justice Jon S. Sigurdson (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court January 27, 1994
Mr. Justice Arne H. Silverman (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court November 26, 2004
Mr. Justice Harry A. Slade (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court March 27, 2001
Mr. Justice William B. Smart (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court December 15, 2006
Madam Justice C. Lynn Smith (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court June 23, 1998
Mr. Justice Nathan H. Smith (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court May 19, 2005
Madam Justice Sunni S. Stromberg-Stein (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court February 16, 1996
Mr. Justice Ronald S. Tindale (Prince George)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court October 20, 2011
Mr. Justice John D. Truscott (New Westminster)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court October 10, 2002
Mr. Justice Frits E. Verhoeven (New Westminster)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court January 22, 2009
Mr. Justice Peter G. Voith (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court January 22, 2009
Mr. Justice Paul W. Walker (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court June 18, 2008
Madam Justice Jeanne E. Watchuk (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court October 28, 2010
Madam Justice Catherine A. Wedge (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court April 4, 2001
Mr. Justice Peter M. Willcock (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court June 19, 2009
Mr. Justice James W. Williams (New Westminster)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court October 10, 2002
Mr. Justice L. Paul Williamson (New Westminster)
  • Appointed to Supreme Court January 27, 1994
Mr. Justice Randall S.K. Wong (Vancouver)
  • Appointed to County Court September 4, 1981
  • Appointed to Supreme Court July 1, 1990
Masters

Master Douglas Baker (Vancouver)
  • Date of Appointment July 16, 1998
Master Michael Bishop (Vancouver)
  • Date of Appointment September 9, 1991
Master Carolyn P. Bouck (Victoria)
  • Date of Appointment December 11, 2009
Master Ian W. Caldwell (New Westminster)
  • Date of Appointment March 24, 2005
Master Peter Keighley (New Westminster)
  • Date of Appointment March 8, 2004
Master Heather MacNaughton (Vancouver)
  • Date of Appointment June 1, 2011
Master William McCallum (Victoria)
  • Date of Appointment November 20, 1989
Master Robert McDiarmid (Kamloops)
  • Date of Appointment June 1, 2011
Master Leslie Muir (Vancouver)
  • Date of Appointment May 7, 2012
Master Shelagh Scarth (Vancouver)
  • Date of Appointment November 6, 2000
Master Grant Taylor (Vancouver)
  • Date of Appointment July 29, 2005
Master Dennis Tokarek (Vancouver)
  • Date of Appointment September 9, 1991
Master Barbara Young (Kelowna)
  • Date of Appointment December 06, 2006
Registrar of the Supreme Court

Registrar Kathryn S. Sainty
  • Date of Appointment September 2, 2010
District Registrar - Vancouver

Registrar Stuart Cameron
  • Date of Appointment January 31, 2011
Former Chief Justices (since 1996)

Chief Justice Donald I. Brenner
  • 2000 - 2009
Chief Justice William A. Esson
  • 1989 - 1996
Chief Justice Brian Williams
  • 1996 - 2000
Former Associate Chief Justices (since 1996)

Associate Chief Justice Patrick D. Dohm
  • 1995 - 2010
Associate Chief Justice Anne W. MacKenzie
  • 2010 - 2011
Former Justices (since 1996)

Madam Justice Marion J. Allan
  • 1990 - 2012
Mr. Justice K. F. Arkell
  • 1990 - 1999
Madam Justice Elizabeth A. Bennett
  • 1997 - 2009
Mr. Justice T. Richard Brooke
  • 2000 - 2011
Mr. Justice John C. Bouck
  • 1974 - 2006
Mr. Justice Harry D. Boyle
  • 1982 - 2001
Mr. Justice Thomas R. Braidwood
  • 1990 - 1996
Mr. Justice Donald I. Brenner
  • 1992 - 2009
Mr. Justice David J. Brine
  • 2004 - 2009
Mr. Justice H.A. Callaghan
  • 1978 - 2001
Mr. Justice D.H. Campbell
  • 1990 - 1996
Mr. Justice Michael I. Catliff
  • 1975 - 2003
Mr. Justice Eric G. Chamberlist
  • 1998 - 2010
Mr. Justice D.L. Clancy
  • 1991 - 2002
Mr. Justice R. Collver
  • 1990 - 2001
Mr. Justice R.M. Cooper
  • 1990 - 1996
Mr. Justice Gerald R. B. Coultas
  • 1988 - 2003
Mr. Justice J. C. Cowan
  • 1988 - 2000
Mr. Justice Austin F. Cullen
  • 2001 - 2011
Mr. Justice W.H. Davies
  • 1982 - 1999
Mr. Justice M. DeWeerdt
  • 1996 - 1997
Mr. Justice Patrick D. Dohm
  • 1972 - 1995
Madam Justice K. K. Downs
  • 1995 - 2002
Mr. Justice N.A. Drossos
  • 1990 - 2001
Mr. Justice Ian L. Drost
  • 1990 - 2005
Mr. Justice E. Robert A. Edwards
  • 1993 - 2007
Mr. Justice J.L.T. Edwards
  • 1994 - 2000
Mr. Justice R.T. Errico
  • 1990 - 1999
Mr. Justice William A. Esson
  • 1979 - 1983
Mr. Justice G. Peter Fraser
  • 1989 - 2007
Mr. Justice T.K. Fisher
  • 1990 - 1999
Mr. Justice S. David Frankel
  • 2007 - 2007
Madam Justice Nicole J. Garson
  • 2001 - 2009
Madam Justice Kirsti M. Gill
  • 1991 - 2009
Mr. Justice Harvey M. Groberman
  • 2001 - 2008
Mr. Justice H.J. Hamilton
  • 1990 - 1997
Mr. Justice S. J. Hardinge
  • 1990 - 2000
Mr. Justice David C. Harris
  • 2010 - 2012
Mr. Justice R. Bruce Harvey
  • 1989 - 2004
Mr. Justice Alexander G. Henderson
  • 1995 - 2003
Mr. Justice Christopher E. Hinkson
  • 2007 - 2010
Mr. Justice Ronald R. Holmes
  • 1989 - 2009
Mr. Justice Sherman W. Hood
  • 1989 - 2007
Mr. Justice D.A. Hogarth
  • 1990 - 1996
Mr. Justice R. B. Hunter
  • 1992 - 2002
Mr. Justice Robert B. M. Hutchison
  • 1990 - 2004
Mr. Justice R.M. J. Hutchinson
  • 1990 - 2002
Madam Justice Pamela A. Kirkpatrick
  • 1992 - 2005
Mr. Justice C. Ross Lander
  • 1982 - 2007
Mr. Justice George Lamperson
  • 1982 - 2006
Mr. Justice S.M. Leggatt
  • 1990 - 2000
Mr. Justice Peter D. Lowry
  • 1991 - 2003
Mr. Justice Kenneth M. Lysyk
  • 1983 - 2003
Mr. Justice B. D. Macdonald
  • 1982 - 1999
Madam Justice Anne W. MacKenzie
  • 1996 - 2010
Mr. Justice Frank Maczko
  • 1988 - 2008
Madam Justice Donna J. Martinson
  • 1998 - 2009
Mr. Justice Frederick A. Melvin
  • 1990 - 2006
Mr. Justice P.J. Millward
  • 1990 - 1999
Madam Justice Nancy Morrison
  • 1996 - 2011
Mr. Justice K.C. Murphy
  • 1990 - 1997
Madam Justice Kathryn E. Neilson
  • 1999 - 2008
Mr. Justice H.A.D. Oliver
  • 1990 - 1996
Mr. Justice Wallace T. Oppal
  • 1985 - 2003
Mr. Justice Dermod D. Owen-Flood
  • 1987 - 2006
Mr. Justice Raymond M.P. Paris
  • 1980 - 2005
Mr. Justice Ian H. Pitfield
  • 1997-2010
Mr. Justice Bruce M. Preston
  • 1987 - 2010
Mr. Justice Robert A. Prior
  • 2010 - 2010
Madam Justice Georgina M. Quijano
  • 1995 - 2005
Mr. Justice Bryan F. Ralph
  • 1997 - 2007
Mr. Justice Eric Rice
  • 2003 - 2011
Mr. Justice R. Robinson
  • 1990 - 1997
Mr. Justice John F. Rowan
  • 1988 - 2001
Mr. Justice W. B. Scarth
  • 1990 - 2009
Mr. Justice W.S. Selbie
  • 1990 - 1996
Mr. Justice S. James Shabbits
  • 1992 - 2011
Mr. Justice Duncan W. Shaw
  • 1987 - 2007
Madam Justice Janet A. Sinclair Prowse
  • 1990 - 2009
Mr. Justice Thimersingh M. Singh
  • 1990 - 2008
Mr. Justice H.L. Skipp
  • 1989 - 2001
Madam Justice Daphne M. Smith
  • 1996 - 2008
Mr. Justice J.E. Spencer
  • 1981 - 1999
Mr. Justice Allan M. Stewart
  • 1988 - 2011
Mr. Justice James D. Taylor
  • 1995 - 2006
Mr. Justice M. L. Tyrwhitt-Drake
  • 1990 - 1997
Mr. Justice David F. Tysoe
  • 1992 - 2007
Mr. Justice David H. Vickers
  • 1991 - 2009
Mr. Justice Terrance P. Warren
  • 1991 - 2009
Mr. Justice C. Warren Wilkinson
  • 1989 - 2001
Mr. Justice A. Fraser Wilson
  • 1991 - 2009
Mr. Justice R. Dean Wilson
  • 1994 - 2011
Former Masters

Master Ronald Barber
  • 1991 - 2007
Master Neil Bolton
  • 1991 - 2009
Master Susan Brandreth-Gibbs
  • 1991 - 2004
Master David J. Brine
  • 2001 - 2004
Master Eric G. Chamberlist
  • 1994 - 1998
Master Alan Donaldson
  • 1989 - 2011
Master Kenneth Doolan
  • 1989 - 2003
Master William G.E. Grist
  • 1990 - 1996
Master Joel R. Groves
  • 2000 - 2005
Master Thomas Halbert
  • 1989 - 1991
Master John W. Horn
  • 1989 - 2003
Master Hope Hyslop
  • 2003 - 2009
Master Brian M. Joyce
  • 1989 - 2001
Master Pamela A. Kirkpatrick
  • 1989 - 1992
Master R.C. (Shelley) Nitikman
  • 1996 - 2004
Master Allan Patterson
  • 1989 - 2006
Master Robert E. Powers
  • 1989 - 1999
Master Meg Shaw
  • 2009 - 2010
Master R. Dean Wilson
  • 1990 - 1994
Former Registrars of the Supreme Court

Master William McCallum
  • 2001 - 2010

Former District Registrars

District Registrar Murray Blok
  • 2002 - 2010
District Registrar Carolyn Bouck
  • 2002 - 2009

District Registrar Kathryn S. Sainty

  • 2001 - 2010
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