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The Canadian order of precedence is a nominal and symbolic hierarchy of important positions within the governing institutions of Canada. It has no legal standing,but is used to dictate ceremonial protocol.
Columbia Law School (CLS) is the law school of Columbia University,a private Ivy League university in New York City. It was founded in 1858 as the Columbia College Law School. The university was known for its legal scholarship dating back to the 18th century. Graduates of the university's colonial predecessor,King's College,include such notable early-American legal figures as John Jay,the first chief justice of the United States,and Alexander Hamilton,the first Secretary of the Treasury,who were co-authors of The Federalist Papers.
Harlan Fiske Stone was an American attorney and jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1925 to 1941 and then as the 12th chief justice of the United States from 1941 until his death in 1946. He also served as the U.S. Attorney General from 1924 to 1925 under President Calvin Coolidge,with whom he had attended Amherst College as a young man. His most famous dictum was:"Courts are not the only agency of government that must be assumed to have capacity to govern."
Theodore Davie was a British Columbia lawyer,politician,and jurist. He practised law in Cassiar and Nanaimo before settling in Victoria and becoming a leading criminal lawyer. He was the brother of Alexander Edmund Batson Davie,who served as premier of British Columbia from 1887 to 1889. Theodore Davie was first elected to the provincial legislature in 1882. In 1889,he became attorney-general under Premier John Robson,and succeeded Robson as premier in 1892.
Frederick "Fred" Moore Vinson was an American attorney and politician who served as the 13th chief justice of the United States from 1946 until his death in 1953. Vinson was one of the few Americans to have served in all three branches of the U.S. government. Before becoming chief justice,Vinson served as a U.S. Representative from Kentucky from 1924 to 1928 and 1930 to 1938,as a federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1938 to 1943,and as the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1945 to 1946.
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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.
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The British Columbia order of precedence is a nominal and symbolic hierarchy of important positions within the province of British Columbia. It has no legal standing but is used to dictate ceremonial protocol at events of a provincial nature.
- The King of Canada
- The Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
- The Premier of British Columbia
- The Chief Justice of British Columbia
- Former Lieutenant Governors of British Columbia
- Hon. Iona Campagnolo PC OC OBC
- Hon. Steven Point OBC
- Hon. Judith Guichon OBC
- Former Premiers of British Columbia
- Bill Vander Zalm
- Rita Johnston
- Mike Harcourt OC
- Glen Clark
- Dan Miller
- Hon. Ujjal Dosanjh PC
- Gordon Campbell OC OBC
- Christy Clark
- John Horgan
- The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
- The Members of the Executive Council of British Columbia by order of precedence
- The Leader of the Official Opposition of British Columbia
- Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada resident in British Columbia,with precedence given to members of the federal cabinet
- The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia
- Church representatives of faith communities
- The Justices of the Court of Appeal of British Columbia with precedence to be governed by the date of appointment
- The Puisne Justices of the Supreme Court of British Columbia with precedence to be governed by the date of appointment
- The Judges of the Supreme Court of British Columbia with precedence to be governed by the date of appointment
- The Members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia with precedence to be governed by the date of their first election to the legislature
- The Chief Judge of the Provincial Court of British Columbia
- The Commander Maritime Forces Pacific
- The Heads of Consular Posts with jurisdiction in British Columbia with precedence to be governed by Article 16 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations
- The Mayor of Victoria
- The Mayor of Vancouver
- The Chancellors of the University of British Columbia,the University of Victoria and Simon Fraser University,respectively.
- Hon. Steven PointOBC
- Marion Buller,CM
- Tamara Vrooman,OBC
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Anne MacKenzie is a judge of the Court of Appeal of British Columbia since January 1,2012. She previously served as the Associate Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia. MacKenzie graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1973 followed by a Bachelor of Laws in 1977 from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She articled with the firm of Guild Yule and Company,and upon her call to the bar joined the offices of the Department of Justice.
Lance Sydney George Finch,was a Canadian lawyer and jurist. He was President of the Vancouver Bar Association and a bencher of the Law Society of British Columbia. He was appointed as a judge in 1983 and went on to serve as the Chief Justice of the British Columbia Court of Appeal from 2001 until his retirement on June 16,2013.
