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Encyclopedia > List of Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada by time in office

Lyman Poore Duff
Longest sitting Justice
13,612 days

This is a list of Canadian Supreme Court Justices by time in office. This is based on the difference between dates; if counted by number of calendar days all the figures would be greater by the number of distinct periods of service (1 for most). Sir Lyman Poore Duff, PC , GCMG (Ontario, January 7, 1865 â€“ April 26, 1955) was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and briefly served as Acting Governor General of Canada in 1940. ... The following table lists the terms of all Supreme Court Justices since 1875 placed in the order in which the justices took the judicial oath of office and thereby started their term of office. ...

Rank by length of term	Justice	Length in days	Term of office
1	Lyman Poore Duff*	13,612+	September 27, 1906 –January 2, 1944 March 17, 1933 –January 2, 1944
2	Thibaudeau Rinfret*	10,857	October 1, 1924 – June 22, 1954 January 8, 1944 – June 22, 1954
3	Henri-Elzéar Taschereau*	10,069+	October 7, 1878 – November 21, 1902 November 21, 1902 – May 2, 1906
4	Robert Taschereau*	10,067	February 9, 1940 – September 1, 1967 April 22, 1963 – September 1, 1967
5	Patrick Kerwin*	10,060	July 20, 1935 – February 2, 1963 July 1, 1954 – February 2, 1963
6	Samuel Henry Strong*	9,911+	September 30, 1875 – December 13, 1892 December 13, 1892 – November 18, 1902
7	Roland Almon Ritchie	9,312	May 5, 1959 - October 31, 1984
8	Ronald Martland	8,793	January 15, 1958 - February 10, 1982
9	Francis Alexander Anglin*	8,772+	February 23, 1909 – February 28, 1933 September 16, 1924 – February 28, 1933
10	Joseph Honoré Gérald Fauteux*	8,768	December 22, 1949 – December 23, 1973 March 23, 1970 – December 23, 1973
11	John Wellington Gwynne	8,394	January 14, 1879 – January 7, 1902
12	Sir Louis Henry Davies*	8,255 +	September 25, 1901 - May 1, 1924 November 23, 1918 – May 1, 1924
13	John Idington	8,085	February 10, 1905 - March 31, 1927
14	John Robert Cartwright*	7,397	December 22, 1949 – March 23, 1970 September 1, 1967 – March 23, 1970
15	Telesphore Fournier	7,288	September 30, 1875 – September 12, 1895
16	Antonio Lamer*	7,224	March 28, 1980 – January 6, 2000 July 1, 1990 – January 6, 2000
17	Douglas Charles Abbott	7,116	July 1, 1954 - December 23, 1973
18	Wilfred Judson	7,106	February 5, 1958 - July 20, 1977
19	Beverley McLachlin*	6,426§	March 30, 1989 – January 7, 2000 January 7, 2000 – present
20	Brian Dickson*	6,306	March 26, 1973 – June 30, 1990 April 18, 1984 – June 30, 1990
21	William Johnstone Ritchie*	6,206+	September 30, 1875 – January 11, 1879 January 11, 1879 – September 25, 1892
22	Ivan Cleveland Rand	5,850	April 22, 1943 - April 27, 1959
23	Wishart Flett Spence	5,693	May 30, 1963 - December 29, 1978
24	Désiré Girouard	5,654	September 28, 1895 – March 22, 1911
25	Charles Holland Locke	5,585	June 3, 1947 - September 16, 1962
26	Claire L'Heureux-Dubé	5,557	April 15, 1987 - July 1, 2002
27	Jean Beetz	5,428	January 1, 1974 - November 10, 1988
28	Charles Gonthier	5,295	February 1, 1989 - August 1, 2003
29	Bora Laskin*	5,122+	March 19, 1970 – March 26, 1984 December 27, 1973 – March 26, 1984
30	Frank Iacobucci	4,924	January 7, 1991 - June 30, 2004
31	Robert Sedgewick	4,915	February 18, 1893 – August 4, 1906
32	Roy Lindsay Kellock	4,853	October 3, 1944 - January 15, 1958
33	John C. Major	4,791	November 13, 1992 - December 25, 2005
34	Gérard La Forest	4,641	January 16, 1985 - September 30, 1997
35	William Alexander Henry	4,600	September 30, 1875 – May 3, 1888
36	Sir Charles Fitzpatrick	4,554	June 4, 1906 – November 21, 1918 June 4, 1906 – November 21, 1918
37	Louis-Philippe Pigeon	4,524	September 21, 1967 - February 8, 1980
38	Louis-Philippe Brodeur	4,444	August 11, 1911 - October 10, 1923
39	James Wilfred Estey	4,126	October 6, 1944 - January 22, 1956
40	Pierre-Basile Mignault	3,994	October 25, 1918 - September 30, 1929
41	Albert Blellock Hudson	3,941	March 24, 1936 - January 6, 1947
42	Oswald Smith Crocket	3,857	September 21, 1932 - April 13, 1943
43	Emmett Matthew Hall	3,752	November 23, 1962 - March 1, 1973
44	Lawrence Arthur Dumoulin Cannon	3,633	January 14, 1930 - December 25, 1939
45	Henry Hague Davis	3,439	January 31, 1935 - June 30, 1944
46	John Henderson Lamont	3,266	April 2, 1927 - March 10, 1936
47	Willard Zebedee Estey	3,859	September 29, 1977 - April 22, 1988
48	Peter Cory	3,773	February 1, 1989 - June 1, 1999
49	William Rogers McIntyre	3,699	January 1, 1979 - February 15, 1989
50	John Sopinka	3,472	May 24, 1988 - November 24, 1997
51	Michel Bastarache	3,320§	September 30, 1997 - present
52	Bertha Wilson	3,229	March 4, 1982 - January 4, 1991
53	Ian Binnie	3,220§	January 8, 1998 - present
54	George E. King	2,786	September 21, 1893 – May 8, 1901
55	Julien Chouinard	2,693	September 24, 1979 - February 6, 1987
56	Edmund Leslie Newcombe	2,641	September 16, 1924 - December 9, 1931
57	Louis LeBel	2,491§	January 7, 2000 - present
58	Robert Smith	2,396	May 18, 1927 - December 7, 1933
59	Louise Arbour	1,751	September 15, 1999 - June 30, 2004
60	Christopher Salmon Patterson	1,732	October 27, 1888 – July 24, 1893
61	Gerald Le Dain	1,647	May 29, 1984 - November 30, 1988
62	Marie Deschamps	1,548§	August 7, 2002 - present
63	Louis-Philippe de Grandpré	1,370	January 1, 1974 - October 1, 1977
64	James Maclennan	1,228	October 5, 1905 - February 13, 1909
65	William Buell Richards*	1,199+	September 30, 1875 – January 10, 1879
66	Morris J. Fish	1,185§	August 5, 2003 - present
67	Jean-Thomas Taschereau	1,103	September 30, 1875 – October 6, 1878
68	Wallace Nesbitt	873	May 16, 1903 - October 4, 1905
69	Rosalie Abella	759§	October 4, 2004 - present
70	Louise Charron	759§	October 4, 2004 - present
71	Frank Joseph Hughes	699	March 17, 1933 - February 13, 1935
72	Yves Pratte	638	October 1, 1977 - June 30, 1979
73	William Stevenson	628	September 17, 1990 - June 5, 1992
74	Albert Clements Killam	549	August 8, 1903 - February 6, 1905
75	Henry Grattan Nolan	495	March 1, 1956 - July 8, 1957
76	David Mills	455	February 8, 1902 - May 8, 1903
77	Marshall Rothstein	246§	March 1, 2006 - present
78	Arthur Cyrille Albert Malouin	246	January 30, 1924 - October 1, 1924
79	John Douglas Armour	233	November 21, 1902 - July 11, 1903

*Chief Justice
⁺Term as Puisne Justice and Chief Justice combined
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The Honourable Roland Almon Ritchie (June 19, 1910 - June 5, 1988) was a Canadian lawyer and Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. ... Ronald Martland (1909 - November 20, 1997) was a Canadian Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. ... The Right Honourable Francis Alexander Anglin, PC (April 2, 1865 - March 2, 1933) was Chief Justice of Canada from September 16, 1924 until February 28, 1933. ... The Right Honourable Joseph HonorÃ© GÃ©rald Fauteux, PC , CC , LL.L (October 22, 1900 â€“ September 14, 1980) was a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. ... The Honourable John Wellington Gwynne (March 30, 1814 â€“ January 7, 1902) was a Canadian lawyer and Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. ... The Honourable John Idington (October 14, 1840 â€“ February 7, 1928) was a Canadian justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. ... 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