Council Members are elected at the Annual Meeting. They provide advice and guidance to the Executive and undertake special assignments.
The Honourable Ronald G. Atkey, P.C., Q.C., Senior Partner at Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP; former Minister of Employment and Immigration; first Chair of the Security Intelligence Review Committee; Vice-President for Ontario, ICJ Canada.
The Honourable Ed Bayda, former Chief Justice of Saskatchewan; former Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench of Saskatchewan.
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.
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; Vice-President of ICJ Canada.
Professor Craig Forcese,Faculty of Law (Common Law Section), University of Ottawa
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 Fraser, Q.C., Conflict of Interest Commissioner for British Columbia ; former Partner Fraser Milner Casgrain
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.
Professor Daniel Gervais, Oslers Professor of Technology Law, Faculty of Law (Common Law Section), University of Ottawa; Author of the reference book on the WTO TRIPS Agreement (Sweet & Maxwell); former Law School Liaison for ICJ Canada
The Honourable Constance Glube, former 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 Charles Gonthier, Retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada; Past President of the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice; International Judicial Representative for Canada in many respects with "la francophonie."
Barry Gorlick, Q.C.,
The Honourable Danielle Grenier, Justice of the Quebec Superior Court; President of the Quebec Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee 2004.
The Honourable Charles T. Hackland, Justice of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice; former Partner, Gowling, Lafleur, Henderson; former Secretary-Treasurer of ICJ Canada.
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; active participant in ICJ Canada's programs for judges in the former Yugoslavia; former ICJ Canada Regional Vice-President for the Atlantic Provinces.
Me Nicolette Kost de Sèvres, Lawyer, Assistant Corporate Secretary - Director, Transat AT inc. and Outgoing Chair of the Young Bar Association of Montreal; Faculty Lecturer in International Law at the University of Quebec in Montreal; Former Special Counsel to the Chair of the Autorité des marchés financiers; involved as Legal Consultant in the ICJ-Canada Project on the independence and impartiality of the Judiciary in the Balkans.
The Honourable Louis LeBel, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada; former Justice of the Quebec Court of Appeal.
The Honourable Allen M. Linden, Justice of the Federal Court of Appeal; former President, Law Reform Commission of Canada; Author Canadian Tort Law (7th ed. 2001); sometimes Executive Director, C.I.A.J., Member American Law Institute.
The Honourable Allan Lutfy, Chief Justice, Federal Court of Canada
Professor Maureen A. Maloney, Q.C., Director, Institute for Dispute Resolution and Lam Chair of Law and Public Policy, University of Victoria; former Deputy Attorney General for British Columbia; former Dean of Law, University of Victoria.
John G. Martland, Q.C., Partner, Bennett, Jones LLP, Calgary
David Matas, lawyer practicing Immigration and Refugee Law in Winnipeg, Manitoba; former Vice-President of ICJ Canada.
Allan McChesney, Counsel and Principal Consultant, Justice Consulting International; Representative External Affairs for ICJ Canada.
The Honourable Janet McMurtry, Justice of the Saskatchewan Court of Queen's Bench; practsed Labour Law prior to appointment to Provincial Court of Saskatchewan in 1995; Associate Chief Judge, 2002-2005.
Professor Moira L. McConnell, Faculty of Law, Dalhousie University; former Executive Director of the Law Reform Commission of Nova Scotia; former Vice-President for the Atlantic Region, ICJ Canada.
The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada.
Professor Errol Mendes, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law; former Director, Human Rights Centre, University of Ottawa; Editor-in-Chief, National Journal of Constitutional Law; Co-editor with Sen. Gérald-A. Beaudoin, The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, 1996.
Manon Montpetit, practiced as Legal Council at the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal; was Responsible for Corporate Affairs at the Société de développement de la Zone internationale de commerce de Mirabel; was Deputy Director for the International Projects of ICJ-Canada in the Balkan countries; webmaster for ICJ-Canada.
The Honourable Kathryn Neilson, Justice of the Court of Appeal of British Columbia; Former Member of B.C. Human Rights Tribunal; Judicial Education in Croatia and Serbia (ICJ Canada) and Cambodia (UNDP/CBA); Former U.N. Human Rights Officer, Cambodia, Vice-President for British Columbia, ICJ Canada.
Professor Ken Norman, College of Law, University of Saskatchewan; Member, Executive Committee, Court Challenges Program of Canada (Representing Law Faculties of Canada and CBA); Webmaster, ICJ Canada.
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 McDougal Hemens; Participated in ICJ Canada's programs on efficiency of the Courts for Judges of former Yugoslavia; Vice President for Quebec, ICJ Canada.
Professor Ed Ratushny, C.M., Q.C., Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa; Advisor and Counsel to Royal Commissions, the Canadian Judicial Council and other tribunals and agencies; Participant in a variety of international assignments; Past-President, ICJ Canada.
The Honourable Robert G. Richards, Justice of the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal; Counsel on many leading public law cases; former Director of Constitutional Law, Province of Saskatchewan; former Vice-President for the Prairies, ICJ Canada.
The Honourable Michèle Rivet, Judge and President of the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal; ICJ Commissioner; Chair, International Projects Committee.
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, Manitoba Court of Appeal
The Honourable Maria Linhares de Sousa, Justice of the Superior Court of Justice, Family Division, previously of the Ontario Court of Justice at Ottawa; extensively involved in family law judicial dispute resolution and case management including child protection matters before the Superior Court of Justice at Ottawa; also involved in national and international judicial education programs and conferences dealing with judicial case management, alternate dispute resolution, due process, the independence of the judiciary, and international conventions.
Brian A. Tabor, Q.C., Partner, Stewart McKelvey LLP in Halifax ; Past President Canadian Bar Association. Vice-President for Atlantic Region, ICJ Canada.
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.
Dr. Penelope Simons, Associate Professor, University of Ottawa School of Law (Common Law Section); participated in the Canadian Assessment Mission to Sudan to investigate allegations of slavery as well as links between oil development in Sudan and violations of human rights. Representative: Law Faculty Liaison, ICJ Canada.
The Honourable Judge William F. Stewart, was appointed to the Provincial Court of British Columbia in April, 1993 and is now semi-retired but continues to sit on the Bench between 5 and 6 months a year. Prior to his appointment, he was the Assistant Deputy Attorney General for the Criminal Justice Branch in British Columbia. Judge Stewart has traveled extensively and is very interested in international affairs and human rights issues.
Professor André Tremblay, Faculty of Law, University of Montreal; Author in the field of constitutional law.
The Honourable J. David Wake, Justice and former Associate Chief Justice of the Ontario Court of Justice.
Tom Wakeling, Q.C., A senior constitutional and labour lawyer with Fraser Milner Casgrain in Edmonton ; practicing in constitutional and labour law before the Supreme Court and Federal Court of Canada, the Alberta and Saskatchewan Courts of Appeal, and the Labour Boards of Canada, Alberta , and Saskatchewan . Vice-President for the Prairies, ICJ Canada.
The Honourable Robert Wells, Justice of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland; Past President, ICJ Canada.
Professor Sharon A. Williams, Osgoode Hall, York University; former Judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia; Consultant to the Deschênes Inquiry on War Crimes in Canada; past Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague.