Council Members are elected at the Annual Meeting.  They provide advice and guidance to the Executive and undertake special assignments.

Raj Anand, Partner at WeirFoulds LLP; senior civil litigation, administrative, and human rights lawyer; Bencher,  Law Society of Upper Canada.

The Honourable Ronald G. Atkey, P.C., Q.C., Professor of National Security Law, Osgoode Hall/York and Western Law; Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP (ret); first Chair of Security Intelligence Review Committee.

The Honourable Ian Binnie, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada; ICJ Commissioner.

The Honourable André Brossard, Justice of the Quebec Court of Appeal; Past-President of the Canadian Superior Court Judges Association (formerly the Canadian Judges Conference); former Bâtonnier of the Quebec Bar.

John Campion, Chair, Toronto Office of Fasken, Martineau.  Practice in International Dispute Resolution; Bencher, Law Society of Upper Canada.

Hon. Carol Cohen, Chair, Justice of the Quebec Superior Court.

Brian A. Crane, Q.C., Partner, Gowling Lafleur Henderson, practicing in Constitutional, Administrative, and Commercial Law before the Supreme Court of Canada, Federal Court, and Ontario Courts.

Philippe Dufresne, Director and Senior Counsel of the Canadian Human Rights Commission’s Litigation Services Division.

L. Yves Fortier, C.C., Q.C., Chairman, Ogilvy Renault; Arbitrator and Counsel in domestic and international cases in all court jurisdictions; former Canadian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

The Honourable Catherine A. Fraser, Chief Justice of Alberta, Northwest Territories and Nunavut; Past Chair of the Judicial Education Committee of the Canadian Judicial Council; extensively involved in the development of national and international judicial education programs on human rights and social issues.

Paul D.K. Fraser, Q.C., Conflict of Interest Commissioner for British Columbia.; Fraser Milner Casgrain (ret.).

Professor Jacques Frémont, Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Montreal; Dean 2000-2004;  Author in the field of constitutional law; Director of international cooperation projects in legal/judicial matters in Asia and Africa.

The Honourable Constance Glube, Chief Justice of Nova Scotia since 1988; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia from 1982-88; a federally appointed judge since 1977.

The Honourable Danielle Grenier, Justice of the Quebec Superior Court; President of the Quebec Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee 2004; Vice-President for Quebec, ICJ Canada.

The Honourable Charles T. Hackland, Regional Senior Justice (East Region) of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice; former Partner, Gowling, Lafleur, Henderson.

Thomas G. Heintzman, O.C., Q.C., Partner, McCarthy Tétrault LLP; former President of the Canadian Bar Association; Bencher, Law Society of Upper Canada.

The Honourable Bill Kelly, Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia (ret); active participant in ICJ Canada’s programs for judges in the former Yugoslavia.

Nicolette Kost de Sèvres, Lawyer, Assistant Corporate Secretary-Director, Transat AT Inc.; former Chair of the Young Bar Association of Montreal; Faculty Lecturer in International Law at the University of Quebec; former Special Counsel to the Chair of the Autorité des marchés financiers.

The Honourable Louis LeBel, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada; former Justice of the Quebec Court of Appeal.

The Honourable Maria Linhares de Sousa, Justice of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Family Division; extensively involved in family law judicial dispute resolution and case management including child protection matters.

The Honourable Allan Lutfy, Chief Justice, Federal Court of Canada; Justice of the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada.

John G. Martland, Q.C., Partner, Bennett Jones LLP, Calgary (ret.).

David Matas, lawyer practicing Immigration and Refugee Law in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Allan McChesney, Senior Researcher at Reach Canada; Law Foundation of Ontario Community Leadership in Justice Fellow, 2009-2010.

Professor Moira L. McConnell, Professor, Dalhousie Law School; former Director of the Marine and Environmental Law Institute.

The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada.

The Honourable Janet McMurtry, Justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Saskatchewan.

Professor Errol Mendes, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law; former Director, Human Rights Centre, University of Ottawa; former Senior Advisor in the Privy Council Office; Visiting Professional at the International Criminal Court in the Hague 2009.

Manon Montpetit, Assessor, Quebec Human Rights Tribunal, former Legal Counsel at the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal; formerly responsible for professional development at the Faculty of Law, University of Montreal.

The Honourable Kathryn Neilson, Justice of the Court of Appeal of British Columbia; former Member of the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal; former United Nations Human Rights Officer, Cambodia.

Professor Ken Norman, College of Law, University of Saskatchewan; Member, Executive Committee, Court Challenges Program of Canada (Representing Law Faculties of Canada and CBA).

The Honourable Claudette Picard, Justice of the Quebec Superior Court; former Partner, Stikeman Elliott; former Bâtonnier of the Quebec Bar.

The Honourable Ginette Piché, Justice of the Quebec Superior Court; former Partner McDougall Hemens.

T. Murray Rankin, Q.C., Heenan Blaikie; specializing in Aboriginal Law, Environmental Law, and Information and Privacy Law; ADR and Mediation in public and private law contexts.

Professor Ed Ratushny, C.M., Q.C., Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa (ret.); Advisor and Counsel to Royal Commissions, the Canadian Judicial Council and other tribunals and agencies; Participant in a variety of international assignments.

The Honourable Robert G. Richards, Justice of the Court of Appeal of Saskatchewan; Counsel on many leading public law cases; former Director of Constitutional Law, Province of Saskatchewan.

The Honourable Michèle Rivet, Associate Professor, University of Sherbrooke, Faculty of Law; former Judge and President of the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal; ICJ Commissioner.

The Honourable Michel Robert. P.C., Chief Justice of Quebec; Member of the MacDonald Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada; former Member of the Security Intelligence Review Committee.

Bernard A. Roy, Q.C., Senior Partner, Ogilvy Renault; Civil and Commercial Litigator; Arbitrator and Counsel in domestic and international cases; former Counsel to Provincial and Federal Commissions of Inquiry.

The Honourable Richard Scott, Chief Justice of Manitoba.

Professor Penelope Simons, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa; former Senior Lecturer in Law at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK; participant in Canadian Assessment Mission to Sudan (1999).

Laura B. Stewart, Partner, Gowling Lafleur Henderson, Ottawa; civil litigation before all levels of the Ontario Courts; Director, The Advocates’ Society; served on the Consent and Capacity Board, the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board, and the Health Services Appeal and Review Board.

Robin Sully, Partner, Director, International Development, Canadian Bar Association;  Chair, Pro Bono and Access to Justice Committee,  International Bar Association.

The Honourable Anne-Marie Trahan, Justice of the Superior Court of Quebec; former Associate Deputy Minister of Justice; Commissioner, Canadian Transport Commission; Member, International Trade Law Branch, Office of Legal Affairs, United Nations; Member, Governing Council of UNIDROIT.

Professor André Tremblay, Faculty of Law, University of Montreal; Author in the field of constitutional law.

John Waddell, Q.C., lawyer, Waddell Raponi; Vice-President, Canadian Bar Insurance Association; Governor of the Law Foundation of B.C., member, Judicial Council of British Columbia.

The Honourable Robert Wells, Q.C., Commissioner, Offshore Helicopter Safety Inquiry; former Justice of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador, Trial Division. .