Judges

Chief Justice

Judges

• The Honourable David W. Stratas

  (DAY-vid STRA-tuss /deɪvɪd strætəs pronouns: he/him) LL.B. (Queen’s University, 1984); B.C.L. (Oxford University, 1986); LL.D. (Queen’s University, 2012, honoris causa). Born in Toronto, Ontario. Law clerk to Justice Bertha Wilson of the Supreme Court of Canada (1986-1987). Called to the Bar of Ontario (1988). Litigation partner in firms in Toronto, Ontario. Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers (2008). Appointed Special Advocate by the Minister of Justice (2008). Adjunct member, Faculty of Law, Queen's University (1994 to the present), winning multiple faculty teaching awards. Instructor and presenter at over 60 judicial education sessions across Canada, most frequently in the area of administrative law. Author of over 200 articles or conference papers on various legal topics, particularly in the areas of administrative law, constitutional law, and legal writing. Appointed Judge of the Federal Court of Appeal, and a member ex officio of the Federal Court on December 11, 2009. Appointed Judge of the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada, May 3, 2012. Acting Chief Justice from July to November 2023.

• The Honourable Wyman W. Webb ﹡

  The Honourable Justice Wyman W. Webb was appointed as a Judge of the Tax Court of Canada on November 23, 2006 and as a Judge of Federal Court of Appeal on October 4, 2012. He received both a Master of Business Administration degree and a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1982 from Dalhousie University and a Bachelor of Science degree in 1978 from Mount Allison University.

  He was admitted to the Bar of Nova Scotia in 1982. He practised law with Patterson Law and its predecessor firms (Patterson Palmer, Patterson Kitz and Patterson Smith Matthews & Grant).

  He also worked for two years on secondment (under the Interchange Canada program) with Revenue Canada Taxation Rulings Directorate, in the Natural Resources and Corporate Reorganizations sections. His practice expertise was in tax law (including income tax and HST/GST), commercial law and tax litigation.

  He is a former Governor of the Canadian Tax Foundation and was a part-time professor of tax law at Dalhousie Law School. He has made presentations at the Canadian Tax Foundation Annual Conference, the Atlantic Provinces Tax Conferences, and CBA tax conferences.

• The Honourable Richard Boivin

  Born in Montréal, Québec. Educated at Collège de Montréal, Université de Montréal (1985), University of Ottawa LL.L. (1988), B.A. (1990), LL.M. (1995) and University of London LL.M. (1991) (King’s College/London School of Economics). Called to the Québec Bar in 1989 and the Paris Bar in 2002. Became Solicitor for England and Wales in 2003.

  Law clerk for the Honourable Justice Robert Décary of the Federal Court of Appeal in 1990. Attorney-at-Law for the Department of Justice of Québec from 1991 to 1993; Attorney-at-Law and Crown prosecutor for the Department of Justice of Canada from 1993 to 1997. From 1997 to 2001, worked in London and Paris for the Québec Department of International Relations. Subsequently, joined EY Law in Paris and practiced in the field of international arbitration.

  Upon returning to Canada in 2004, became General Counsel with the Department of Justice of Canada and was appointed Associate Senior General Counsel with the Aboriginal Affairs Portfolio. Recipient of the Order of Merit in 2008 of the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law (civil law section). Author of numerous articles in international arbitration, constitutional law and aboriginal law.

  Appointed judge of the Federal Court of Canada and ex officio member of the Court of Appeal on June 19, 2009 and judge of the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada on November 19, 2009. He was appointed Judge of the Federal Court of Appeal on April 10, 2014.

• The Honourable Donald J. Rennie ﹡

  Prior to being appointed a Judge of the Federal Court in September 2010, Mr. Justice Rennie was Assistant Deputy Attorney General with the Department of Justice Canada in Ottawa.

  Mr. Justice Rennie received a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) from the University of Guelph in 1975 and a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from Dalhousie University in 1978.

  Mr. Justice Rennie was Assistant Deputy Attorney General (Litigation) with the Department of Justice (2006-2010). He was Chair of the Department’s National Litigation Committee and co-chair of the Supreme Court of Canada Committee. He was a law clerk at the Ontario Court of Appeal (1980-1981) and to the Supreme Court of the Yukon Territory (1978).

  Over the course of his 29 years of practice he appeared as counsel for the Attorney General of Canada in many complex cases involving the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, administrative, tort and constitutional law. He was counsel to Canada at the Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada (Krever Inquiry), in arbitrations under the NAFTA and for the Minister of Justice in matters arising under the Judges Act. He has appeared at all levels of court in most provinces and in over twenty appeals before the Supreme Court of Canada.

  Justice Rennie has significant experience dealing with competition issues and over the years was involved in high profile complex cases dealing with restraining anti-competitive practices in the air transportation industry, the disclosure of documents provided by third parties in light of the principles of natural justice, the potential of abuse of dominant market position in relations to discounted price incentives to suppliers, and another such case requiring the detailed understanding of the economics of cross-subsidization and cost accounting where monopolies also engage in competitive practices.

  He has been co-author of the Federal Court Practice since 1988 and also co-author of The 1995 Annotated Crown Liability and Proceedings Act. He was a frequent panelist at legal conferences and is the author of numerous legal articles, most recently “The Extra-territorial Application of the Charter of Rights” in the 2009 Supreme Court Law Review.

  Justice Rennie was appointed judicial member of the Competition Tribunal on May 3, 2012, and Chairman on June 10, 2012.

  Justice Rennie was appointed to the Federal Court of Appeal on February 26, 2015.

• The Honourable Mary J.L. Gleason

  Justice Gleason was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, lived most of her youth in Calgary, Alberta, and pursued her university studies in Ottawa and Halifax. She obtained a B.A. (Honours) in History from the University of Ottawa in 1981 and a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from Dalhousie University in 1984. Justice Gleason was a senior partner with Norton Rose, LLP (formerly Ogilvy Renault, LLP) and practised labour and employment law in Ottawa with that firm for nearly 26 years. She held a number of management positions within her firm, including that of co-managing partner of its Ottawa office and Ottawa Chair of its Employment and Labour Group. She was recognized as a leading labour and employment practitioner by Best Lawyers in Canada, L’Expert, PLC Which Lawyer?, Guide to the World’s Leading Labour and Employment Lawyers, and Canadian HR Reporter’s Canada’s Employment Law Directory.

  Justice Gleason frequently guest-lectured at the University of Ottawa and taught a course in employment law at the Faculty of Law of that university. She has written numerous articles and has regularly presented papers at conferences hosted by a variety of organizations, including the National Judicial Institute, the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, the Canadian Bar Association and the Advocates’ Society.

  Justice Gleason was a founding member and past president of the Canadian Association of Counsel to Employers. She was also active in the Canadian Bar Association and the Ottawa Human Resources Professionals’ Association, where she held the portfolio of Government Affairs Liaison on its board of directors for a number of years. Prior to her appointment to the Federal Court, Justice Gleason was a member of the Canada Industrial Relations Board’s Client Consultation Committee and the Federal Court Labour Law, Human Rights, Privacy and Access Review Liaison Committee. While a judge of the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal, she has been the Co-Chair of this Liaison Committee since 2012 and a member of the Federal Courts Rules Committee from February 2014 to June 2015 and again from April 2017 to present.

  Justice Gleason was appointed a judge of the Federal Court and an ex-officio member of the Federal Court of Appeal on December 15, 2011. She was appointed a judge of the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada on March 7, 2013 and a judge of the Federal Court of Appeal on June 19, 2015. On October 11, 2024, she was appointed Chief Justice of the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada.

• The Honourable Judith M. Woods ﹡

  Educated at the University of Western Ontario (LL.B. 1974) and Georgetown University (LL.M. 1978). Called to the Bar of Ontario, 1976. Prior to her appointment, Partner McCarthy Tétrault (practice leader in the firm's taxation group and member of the national Board of Directors) and author of various articles and publications on tax issues.

  Member of the Executive Committee of the Canadian Tax Foundation, Taxation Section of the Canadian Bar Association.

  Justice Woods was appointed as a Judge of the Tax Court of Canada on March 20, 2003 and as a Judge of the Federal Court of Appeal on June 16, 2016.

• The Honourable John B. Laskin

  Justice John B. Laskin practised litigation for more than 30 years in the Toronto office of Torys LLP. In his broad trial and appellate practice, he represented individuals, corporations, governments and their agencies, public institutions, industry associations, public interest groups, and Indigenous organizations.

  He appeared in the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Courts, every level of court in Ontario, the courts of seven other provinces and territories, domestic and international arbitrations, and a variety of administrative tribunals.

  Justice Laskin is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and of Litigation Counsel of America, and has been a member of the Ontario Regional Committee of the Supreme Court Advocacy Institute.

  He has spoken, written and taught frequently on matters of public law and advocacy, and was co-editor of Canadian Charter of Rights Annotated. Before entering private practice, he was a professor in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law.

  Born in Thunder Bay, Justice Laskin holds a B.A. (with distinction) from York University, an LL.B. (as Gold Medallist) from the University of Toronto, and an LL.M. from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a past President of the University of Toronto Law Alumni Association and was actively involved in the founding of the Faculty of Law at Lakehead University.

  In 2015, he was awarded the Law Society of Ontario’s Law Society Medal, given for outstanding service within the legal profession where the service is in accordance with the highest ideals of the profession.

  Justice Laskin was appointed a judge of the Federal Court of Appeal on June 21, 2017.

• The Honourable George R. Locke

  The Honourable George R. Locke was born and raised in Greater Montreal. He studied at McGill University, obtaining a B. Eng. in Mechanical Engineering in 1987, and LL. B. and B.C.L. degrees in 1991. He was called to the Bar in Ontario in 1993 and in Quebec in 1995. He was also certified as a specialist in Intellectual Property Law (Patents) by the Law Society of Upper Canada.

  Justice Locke was appointed Judge of the Federal Court and an ex- officio, member of the Federal Court of Appeal on April 10, 2014. He was appointed Judge of the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada on May 28, 2015 and Judge of the Federal Court of Appeal on March 7, 2019.

  Prior to his judicial appointment, Justice Locke was an associate and then a partner in the Intellectual Property Group at the Montreal office of Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, formerly Ogilvy Renault LLP. He was registered as a trademark agent in 1993 and as a patent agent in 2000. He was also a member of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec and of the Intellectual Property Section of the Canadian Bar Association.

  Justice Locke is a Fellow of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, and was acting as its Treasurer at the time of his appointment to the Federal Court. Before and since his appointment, Justice Locke has written and spoken frequently on intellectual property issues, both in Canada and abroad.

• The Honourable Anne Mactavish﹡

  Born in Montreal, Quebec. Education at Bishop's University, University of New Brunswick and University of Ottawa. Called to the Bar of Ontario, 1982. Associate and Partner, Perley-Robertson, Panet, Hill & McDougall, 1982-1996. Appointed President of the Human Rights Tribunal Panel in 1995, and Chairperson of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal in 1998. Past President of the County of Carleton Law Association; Past President, Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice.

  Appointed Judge of the Federal Court and Member ex officio of the Federal Court of Appeal on November 19, 2003.

  Appointed as a Judge of the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada on March 23, 2004.

  Appointed as a Judge of the Federal Court of Appeal on June 22, 2019.

• The Honourable René LeBlanc

  The Honourable René LeBlanc was a lawyer with the Department of Justice Canada in Ottawa and was appointed a Judge of the Federal Court on April 10, 2014. On April 28, 2020, he was appointed as a Judge of the Federal Court of Appeal. Mr. Justice LeBlanc received a Bachelor of Civil Law from Université Laval in 1979 and was called to the Barreau du Québec in 1980.

  He worked in private practice with the law firm of Lazarovitch, Cannon, Lemelin & Rourke in Québec City before joining the Legal Services Unit of the Secretary of State of Canada in 1982.

  In 1986, he joined the Department of Justice Canada as a litigator and was appointed Senior General Counsel in 2006. In that capacity he appeared before all levels of court. During his time with the Department of Justice he was designated as one of a small group of lawyers to represent the Attorney General of Canada before the Supreme Court of Canada.

  He was also a member of the national committee responsible for reviewing all aspects of litigation before the Supreme Court of Canada involving the government of Canada.

  His main area of practice was civil litigation and constitutional law. Justice LeBlanc has been a frequent conference speaker to his colleagues at the Department of Justice and has served as a part-time professor at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Civil Law.

  He is also co-author of a book on the recourses and procedure before the Federal Courts (Letarte, Veilleux, LeBlanc et Rouillard-Labbé, Recours et procédure devant les Cours fédérales, Montréal, LexisNexis Canada Inc., 2013) of which the first edition was published in 2013 and a second, in 2025. This book is the only publication in the French language dealing with that subject matter.

• The Honourable K.A. Siobhan Monaghan

  (SHUH-von MAH-na-han / ʃʊvɑ̃n mɑnæhæn) The Honourable K. A. Siobhan Monaghan was appointed a judge of the Federal Court of Appeal in August 2021. At the time of her appointment, she was a judge of the Tax Court of Canada, a position she had held since June 2018.

  Justice Monaghan graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1981 and from Osgoode Hall Law School with a Bachelor of Laws (Gold Medalist) in 1984 and a Master of Laws, Taxation in 1994. She was called to the Alberta bar in 1985 and the Ontario bar in 1988.

  Prior to her appointment to the Tax Court, Justice Monaghan practiced law for more than 30 years, first in Calgary and then Toronto. Her legal practice focused on Canadian income tax matters relevant to mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, financings and other commercial transactions in a domestic and cross-border context.

  Justice Monaghan has spoken frequently, and written extensively, on matters of taxation and taught corporate tax as an adjunct with Osgoode Hall Law School’s Professional LLM Program.

  She was a long-time member of the CPA Canada-CBA Joint Committee on Taxation (including two years as Co-Chair). She also served as a Governor of the Canadian Tax Foundation, and as a member of the Executive of the National Tax Section of the CBA, the CBA Sections Subcommittee, the CBA Budget Committee, and the CPA Canada Income Tax Education Committee.

  Justice Monaghan is a member of the Osgoode Hall Law School Alumni Board and sits on the board of the Canadian Branch of the International Association of Women Judges.

• The Honourable Sylvie E. Roussel

  The Honourable Sylvie E. Roussel was appointed a judge of the Federal Court and ex officio member of the Federal Court of Appeal on June 19, 2015. On April 19, 2022, the Honourable Madam Justice Roussel was appointed as a Judge of the Federal Court of Appeal.

  She received a Bachelor of Social Science in 1983, a Bachelor of Civil Laws in 1986 and a Bachelor of Laws in 1987, all from the University of Ottawa. She was called to the Barreau du Québec in 1987 and to the Ontario Bar in 1995.

  At the time of her appointment to the Federal Court, Madam Justice Roussel was Senior Counsel for the Security Intelligence Review Committee, where she had been practising since 2007. From 1987 to 2007, she was a lawyer and partner with the firm Noël et Associés, where she practised in several areas of law.

  She has been a part-time lecturer with the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa – Civil Law Section. She was co-editor of the publication called La Cour suprême en bref and Supreme Court News and has published many articles about the Supreme Court of Canada in the Journal du Barreau. Among her professional associations, she was a member and Chair of the Canadian Bar Association’s Liaison Committee with the Supreme Court of Canada, a member of the Executive Committee of the National Administrative Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association, and a member of the Supreme Court of Canada's Ottawa Agents Practice and Procedures Committee. She has also been a speaker at various conferences.

• The Honourable Nathalie Goyette

  The Honourable Nathalie Goyette was appointed as a Judge of the Federal Court of Appeal on October 20^th, 2022.

  She was born in Amos, Québec, and received her pre-university education in Canada, Mexico and Jamaica. She earned an LL.L. from the University of Ottawa, an LL.B. from Dalhousie University, and a Master of Taxation from the University of Sherbrooke. She was called to the Barreau du Québec in 1990.

  Prior to her appointment, Justice Goyette practised tax litigation for 32 years, split evenly between the Department of Justice Canada and private practice. A frequent speaker at national and international tax seminars, she has authored numerous publications, including a book on tax treaty abuse.

  Justice Goyette is a past governor of the Canadian Tax Foundation. She was a member of the Tax Court of Canada’s Rules Committee for a decade and a member of that court’s Judicial Advisory Committee. She chaired the Canadian Bar Association’s Tax Court Bench & Bar Committee in addition to being a member of the Canadian Bar Association’s Section Subcommittee and the Quebec Branch President of the Dalhousie Law Alumni Association. She received the Order of Merit of the University of Ottawa’s Civil Law Faculty and she has been recognized by various organizations including Chambers and Lexpert.

• The Honourable Gerald Heckman

  (he, his) Born in Québec City, Justice Heckman studied engineering (B.A. Sc., Engineering Physics, Laval University, 1990; M.A. Sc., Electrical Engineering, University of Waterloo, 1992) before pursuing his legal education at the University of Toronto (LL.B., 1995), Queen’s University (LL.M., 1999) and York University (PhD, 2008). He served as law clerk to Justice Marc Noël, then of the Federal Court Trial Division. Called to the Ontario bar in 1998, he practised labour, employment and human rights law in the Toronto office of a national firm before beginning his doctoral studies.

  Justice Heckman was a professor at the University of Manitoba, Faculty of Law (2006-2023) where his teaching and research focused on public law, including administrative law, constitutional law and language rights. A recipient of several faculty and university teaching and service awards, he served as co-director of the Faculty’s Concentration in Access to Justice in French. He published extensively in the area of administrative and constitutional law. He was general editor of Administrative Law — Cases, Text and Materials, 8th ed (Emond) and contributed to other leading English- and French-language legal texts and casebooks.

  Professor Heckman served on the boards of several national organizations, including the Council of Canadian Administrative Tribunals and the Canadian Association of Law Teachers. He regularly participated as a faculty member in judicial education seminars on administrative law organized by the National Judicial Institute and Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice. As a board member and president of the Association des juristes d’expression française du Manitoba, he promoted initiatives to enhance access to justice in both official languages.

  Justice Heckman was appointed as a Judge of the Federal Court of Appeal on May 31, 2023.

• The Honourable Monica Biringer

  (MAH-ni-kuh BIR-in-ger / mɔnikə bɪrɪŋdʒɝ) Justice Monica Biringer was born in Toronto and educated at the University of Toronto Schools, Queen’s University (BA, 1981), and the University of Toronto Law School (JD, 1984). She was called to the Ontario bar in 1986.

  Justice Biringer practised in the Tax Department of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP after her call to the bar, most recently as Co-Chair of the National Tax Group. For many years, she practised in various areas of corporate income tax planning, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and financial restructuring. In more recent years, her practice focus was on tax disputes and litigation. Justice Biringer has appeared at all levels of federal and provincial courts with respect to income tax matters. While at Osler, she also held various positions in firm management.

  Justice Biringer has been an author and speaker at conferences on various Canadian tax matters, is a past Governor of the Canadian Tax Foundation, has taught at the Bar Admission Course, and was on the editorial board of various tax publications. She has been recognized as a leader in tax law by various international and domestic tax organizations and for her accomplishments in supporting the advancement of women in the legal profession.

  Justice Biringer was appointed to the Tax Court of Canada on August 4, 2021 and to the Federal Court of Appeal on June 22, 2023.

• The Honourable Elizabeth Walker

  Justice Walker was born in London, England and raised in Vancouver and Ottawa. She received a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) (Gold medalist, summa cum laude) from the University of Ottawa in 1986 and a Masters of Laws (B.C.L.) from Oxford University in 1987. She was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1989. Justice Walker is fluent in English and French.

  Justice Walker was appointed as a judge of the Federal Court on February 26, 2018, and as a Judge of the Federal Court of Appeal on January 26, 2024.

  Justice Walker articled and practiced with Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP in Toronto and Ottawa before joining the National Capital Commission in 1991 as counsel. She rejoined Osler in 1994 and was the managing partner of the Ottawa office from 2004 to 2014 during which time she was a member of many firm management committees. Justice Walker was an active member of the business community for 20 years and a frequent speaker at events promoting the technology sector in Canada.

  In 2014, Justice Walker was appointed Chair of the RCMP External Review Committee, a federal administrative tribunal located in Ottawa. As Chair, her primary focus was on administrative law, employment and labour law, and Charter and human rights issues. She guided the Committee through a significant transition period following the amendment of its mandate in November 2014.

  Throughout her career, Justice Walker has been a strong proponent for the advancement of women in the legal profession. She has mentored and counselled women in all facets of the profession, informally and as a member of senior management.

• The Honourable Vanessa Rochester

  The Honourable Justice Vanessa Rochester (VAH-ness-ah RAH-chess-ter / vɑnɛsɑ ɹɑtʃɛstɝ) was appointed as a judge of the Federal Court on August 4, 2021 and as a judge of the Federal Court of Appeal on January 26, 2024. Prior to being appointed a judge, she practised predominantly in the areas of maritime and transportation law. She worked with the late Professor William Tetley, a widely known and respected maritime law scholar, before entering private practice in the Montreal office of Norton Rose Fulbright, where she spent most of her career. She also spent several years practising in London, England, and in Singapore, where she handled complex multijurisdictional disputes.

  Justice Rochester has been recognized as a leading practitioner in maritime and transportation law by numerous industry publications, including Chambers, Lexpert, Legal 500, Best Lawyers, Who’s Who, and Expert Guides.

  While in practice, Justice Rochester was a regular speaker and author on maritime law topics and unconscious gender bias. She was the President of the Canadian chapter of the Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association, whose mission is to promote gender diversity and equality in the shipping industry. She also served as VP Quebec and chaired several committees of the Canadian Maritime Law Association. She sat on the Maritime Law Executive and the Federal Court Bench and Bar Liaison Committee of the Canadian Bar Association.

  Justice Rochester is a graduate of McGill University where she earned her B.A. Honors in Anthropology / Archeology, with a focus on maritime archeology, and then later her B.C.L and LL.B.. She earned both an LL.M. and a Ph.D. in maritime law from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

• The Honourable Panagiotis (Peter) Pamel

  Justice Panagiotis (Peter) Pamel was appointed to the Federal Court of Appeal on September 20, 2024, having served previously on the Federal Court since May 2, 2019. Prior to his appointments, Justice Pamel was one of the leading admiralty lawyers in Canada, and acted as counsel to numerous Canadian and international shipowners, ship operators, and other key marine stakeholders. He advised clients in such areas as casualty and environmental response, marine operations, regulatory compliance, contracts of affreightment, vessel sale and finance, contractual disputes, statutory prosecutions, marine insurance, salvage and general average.

  Justice Pamel served as Chair of the Arctic Issues Committee of the Canadian Maritime Law Association and has appeared throughout his career before the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Appeal, and the Federal Court representing clients in several landmark cases in the area of maritime law. During his career, Justice Pamel was a regular speaker at major marine and arctic shipping conferences, and co-authored scholarly works on issues relating to Arctic navigation and maritime law.

  After completing his Bachelor of Commerce (Finance) from Concordia University, Justice Pamel obtained Bachelors of Civil and Common Law from McGill University, from where he then joined McMaster Meighen (a predecessor firm of Borden Ladner Gervais (BLG)) in 1988. Apart from a short stint in industry, Justice Pamel remained and practiced within the Shipping Law Group at BLG in Montréal for over 30 years. Justice Pamel was founder and initial Chair of BLG’s Team North, a practice group designed to provide legal advice to both the public and private sectors in Northern Canada.

  Justice Pamel was a member of the Board of Directors of the Royal Victoria Hospital Foundation / McGill University Health Centre Foundation until 2018, and continues to actively support numerous charities in the Montréal area.

﹡ Supernumerary

• Former Chief Justices

  Names of the former Federal Court of Appeal chief justices with the date of their appointment followed by the date of departure.

  Name	Period of Appointment
  The Honourable Marc Noël	2014/10/09 - 2023/07/31
  The Honourable Pierre Blais	2009/09/09 - 2014/06/23
  The Honourable John D. Richard	2003/07/03 - 2009/07/30

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  Names of the former Federal Court of Canada chief justices with the date of their appointment followed by the date of departure.

  Name	Period of Appointment
  The Honourable John D. Richard	1999/11/04 - 2003/07/02
  The Honourable Julius A. Isaac	1991/12/24 - 1999/09/01
  The Honourable Frank Iacobucci	1988/09/02 - 1991/01/06
  The Honourable Arthur L. Thurlow	1980/01/04 - 1988/05/05
  The Honourable Wilbur R. Jackett	1971/06/01 - 1979/10/01

• Former Judges

  Names of the former Federal Court of Canada, Appeal Division and Federal Court of Appeal judges with the date of their appointment followed by the date of departure.

  Name	Appointment	Departure
  The Honourable Jacques Dumoulin	1971/06/01	1972/12/01
  The Honourable Arthur L. Thurlow	1971/06/01	1988/05/05
  The Honourable Louis Pratte	1973/01/25	1999/01/01
  The Honourable John J. Urie	1973/04/19	1990/12/15
  The Honourable William F. Ryan	1974/04/11	1986/08/01
  The Honourable Gerald Le Dain	1975/07/24	1984/05/29
  The Honourable Darrel V. Heald	1975/12/04	1994/08/27
  The Honourable Patrick M. Mahoney	1983/07/18	1994/10/31
  The Honourable Louis Marceau	1983/07/18	2000/05/01
  The Honourable Arthur J. Stone	1983/07/18	2004/11/19
  The Honourable James K. Hugessen	1983/07/18	1998/06/23
  The Honourable Mark R. MacGuigan	1984/06/29	1998/01/12
  The Honourable Bertrand Lacombe	1985/10/29	1989/12/07
  The Honourable Alice Desjardins	1987/06/29	2009/08/11
  The Honourable Robert Décary	1990/03/14	2009/07/01
  The Honourable Allen M. Linden	1990/07/05	2009/10/07
  The Honourable Julius A. Isaac	1991/12/24	2003/07/18
  The Honourable Joseph Robertson	1992/05/13	2000/07/27
  The Honourable Gilles Létourneau	1992/05/13	2012/12/31
  The Honourable Francis J. McDonald	1993/04/01	2001/09/06
  The Honourable Barry L. Strayer	1994/08/30	2004/05/01
  The Honourable J. Edgar Sexton	1998/06/23	2011/10/28
  The Honourable Marshall E. Rothstein	1999/01/21	2006/03/01
  The Honourable Brian D. Malone	1999/11/04	2007/09/27
  The Honourable Karen Sharlow	1999/11/04	2014/09/30
  The Honourable John Maxwell Evans	1999/12/08	2013/12/31
  The Honourable Marc Nadon	2001/12/14	2021/07/25
  The Honourable C. Michael Ryer	2006/10/26	2010/01/18
  The Honourable Johanne Trudel	2007/04/26	2018/04/30
  The Honourable Carolyn Layden-Stevenson	2008/12/12	2012/06/27
  The Honourable Eleanor R. Dawson	2009/12/28	2020/07/22
  The Honourable Robert M. Mainville	2010/06/18	2014/06/30
  The Honourable David G. Near	2013/02/08	2021/09/01
  The Honourable André F.J. Scott	2014/01/30	2018/10/22
  The Honourable C. Michael Ryer	2014/12/12	2016/04/30
  The Honourable Marianne Rivoalen	2018/09/20	2023/06/01
  The Honourable Marc Noël	1998/06/23	2023/07/31
  The Honourable J.D. Denis Pelletier	2001/12/14	2023/09/01
  The Honourable Johanne Gauthier	2011/10/21	2023/09/01