Ramon John Hnatyshyn was a Canadian lawyer and statesman who served as governor general of Canada,the 24th since Canadian Confederation.
Osgoode Hall Law School,commonly shortened to Osgoode,is the law school of York University in Toronto,Ontario,Canada.
Bora Laskin was a Canadian jurist who served as the 14th chief justice of Canada from 1973 to 1984. Laskin was appointed a puisne justice of the Supreme Court in 1970,and served on the Ontario Court of Appeal from 1965 to 1970. Before he was named to the bench,Laskin worked as a lawyer and in academia.
Roland Roy McMurtry,is a Canadian lawyer,retired judge and former politician in Ontario. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1975 to 1985,serving in the cabinet of Bill Davis as Attorney General and as Solicitor General. After leaving politics,McMurtry was High Commissioner of Canada to the United Kingdom between 1985 and 1988. He became a judge in 1991 and was appointed as Chief Justice of Ontario in 1996. McMurtry retired from the bench in 2007 and returned to the private practice of law.
Borys Wrzesnewskyj is a Canadian politician who represented the riding of Etobicoke Centre in the House of Commons of Canada. He held the riding from 2004 to 2011 and again from 2015 to 2019. He is a member of the Liberal Party.
Frank Iacobucci is a former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1991 until his retirement from the bench in 2004. He was the first Italian-Canadian,allophone judge on the court. Iacobucci was also the first judge on the Supreme Court to have been born,raised and educated in British Columbia. Iacobucci has had a distinguished career in private practice,academia,the civil service and the judiciary.
Rosalie Silberman Abella is a Canadian jurist. In 2004,Abella was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada,becoming the first Jewish woman and refugee to sit on the Canadian Supreme Court bench. She retired from the federal bench in 2021.
John Sopinka,was a Canadian lawyer and puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada,the first Ukrainian-Canadian appointed to the high court.
The Attorney General of Ontario is the chief legal adviser to His Majesty the King in Right of Ontario and,by extension,the Government of Ontario. The Attorney General is a senior member of the Executive Council of Ontario and oversees the Ministry of the Attorney General –the department responsible for the oversight of the justice system in the province of Ontario. The Attorney General is an elected Member of Provincial Parliament who is appointed by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario on the constitutional advice of the Premier of Ontario.
Bernie M. Farber is a Canadian writer,commentator,and the former chief executive officer of the Canadian Jewish Congress and a social activist. He has testified before the Canadian courts as an expert witness on hate crime.
Arturo Dizon Brion is a former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He took his oath as a member of the Supreme Court on March 17,2008. From 2006 until his appointment to the Supreme Court,Brion served in the Cabinet of President Macapagal-Arroyo as the Secretary of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).
Haim Yosef Zadok was an Israeli jurist and politician.
Marc Robert Stanley is an American trial lawyer,political activist,Jewish community leader,and philanthropist who has served as the United States Ambassador to Argentina since 2022.
Keith M. Landy was a Canadian lawyer and former president of the Canadian Jewish Congress.
Moshe Ronen is a Toronto lawyer,and a Jewish community leader. Ronen served as vice-president of the World Jewish Congress,national chair of the Canada-Israel Committee,and president of the Canadian Jewish Congress from 1998 to 2001.
Andromache Karakatsanis is a Canadian jurist. She was nominated to the Supreme Court of Canada by Stephen Harper in October 2011. She is the first Greek-Canadian judge on the Court. Since the retirement of Rosalie Abella on July 1,2021,and of Michael Moldaver on September 1,2022,she is the longest-serving member of the Supreme Court.
Jeffrey Adam Rosen is an American lawyer who served as the acting United States attorney general from December 2020 to January 2021 and as the United States deputy attorney general from 2019 to 2020. Before joining the Department of Justice,he was a senior partner at the law firm Kirkland &Ellis and was the United States deputy secretary of transportation.
John Charles Demers is an American attorney who served as the assistant attorney general of the National Security Division. An appointee of President Donald Trump,he served under both,President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden. John Demers also served as acting United States Attorney General for a few hours following the resignation of the previous acting United States Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen at noon on January 20,2021,until President Joe Biden signed an executive order naming Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Human Resources and Administration Monty Wilkinson as acting United States Attorney General later that day.
Itzhak Nener was an Israeli jurist who cofounded the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists and served as vice-president of Liberal International.
Todd McCarthy is a Canadian lawyer and politician,who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2022 provincial election. He represents the riding of Durham as a Member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. McCarthy was also named Parliamentary Assistant to the President of the Treasury Board Prabmeet Sarkaria. In addition to his Parliamentary Assistant Role,he was appointed,Deputy Government Whip and is a Member of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts.
