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The Right Honourable Antonio Lamer P.C., C.C.


 
Member of the Privy Council of Canada. Companion Order of Canada. Honourary Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn, London. Honourary Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
 
Appointed to the Superior Court, December 1969 and to the Queen's Bench (Crown Side) of the Province of Quebec, December 1969. Vice-Chairman of the Law Reform Commission of Canada, December 1971. Appointed a Member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Human Rights Foundation, June 1974. Elected President of La Société de Criminologie du Québec, June 1974. Appointed Chairman of the Law Reform Commission of Canada, April 1976 Elevated to the Quebec Court of Appeal, March 1978 Elevated to the Supreme Court of Canada in March 1980 Member of the Privy Council of Canada Honorary Bencher of Lincoln's Inn, London Honorary Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
 
University of Montreal (Faculty of Law 1956), University of Moncton (LL.D. 1981), University of Ottawa (D.U. (Doctor of University) 1987), University of Montreal (LL.D. 1991), University of Toronto (LL.D. 1992), University of New Brunswick (LL.D. 1995), Dalhousie University (LL.D. 1996), University of British Columbia (LL.D. 1999), Saint Paul, University, Ottawa (D.U.-Doctor of University-2001). Born in Montreal, Quebec in 1933.
 
Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, joined Stikeman Elliott LLP on February 1, 2000 in a senior advisory role.