Osgoode Hall Law School - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

Supreme Court of Canada justices

• John Robert Cartwright, former Chief Justice
• Peter Cory, former Puisne Judge and former Chancellor of York University
• Frank Joseph Hughes, former Puisne Judge
• Wilfred Judson, former Puisne Judge
• Andromache Karakatsanis, current Puisne Judge
• Patrick Kerwin, former Chief Justice
• Bora Laskin, former Chief Justice
• Wishart Spence, former Puisne Judge

Other judges

• Kim Carter, former Chief Military Judge of the Canadian Forces, now Ombudsman of British Columbia
• Charles Dubin, former Chief Justice of Ontario
• Harry S. Laforme, Ontario Court of Appeal Judge, head of the Aboriginal Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
• Patrick LeSage, former Chief Justice of Ontario
• Allen Linden, Federal Court of Appeal judge
• Goldwyn Arthur Martin, QC, former Justice of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, prominent criminal law scholar
• Roy McMurtry, former Chief Justice of Ontario, current Chancellor of York University
• Dennis O'Connor, Ontario Court of Appeal judge and Associate Chief Justice of Ontario
• James O'Reilly, Federal Court Judge
• John Richard, current Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Appeal
• Warren Winkler, current Chief Justice of Ontario

Others

• John Black Aird, former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Canadian Senator and founding partner of Aird & Berlis LLP
• Lincoln Alexander, 24th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
• Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty, president of the Canadian Pacific Railway
• Arturo Brion, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the Philippines
• Michael Bryant, former Attorney General, Ontario Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Government House Leader
• Donald Carrick, Olympic boxer, golf champion, former MP
• Carme Chacón, Minister of Defence for the present government of Spain
• Lionel Chevrier, former Attorney General of Canada
• Marshall A. Cohen, former President and CEO of Molson, member of the Trilateral Commission
• Deborah Coyne, prominent legal scholar
• Bill Davis, 18th Premier of Ontario
• George Drew, 14th Premier of Ontario
• Marlys Edwardh, highly-reputed Canadian constitutional lawyer, worked on the Maher Arar case
• Ward P.D. Elcock, former director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service
• Ernie Eves, 23rd Premier of Ontario
• J. S. Ewart QC, advocate of Canadian independence
• Gordon Fairweather, first Chief Commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission
• Jim Flaherty, federal Minister of Finance
• Leslie Frost, 16th Premier of Ontario
• Herb Gray, former Deputy Prime Minister and Solicitor General of Canada
• Edward Greenspan, highly-reputed Canadian barrister, Vice President of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association
• Hugh Guthrie, former Attorney General of Canada
• Barbara Hall, former mayor of Toronto, Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission
• Carol Hansell, Board of Directors, Bank of Canada
• Bill Hastings, former Chief Censor of New Zealand
• James C. Hathaway, scholar, author on international refugee law
• William Howard Hearst, 7th Premier of Ontario
• Ron Irwin, former federal cabinet minister, former Ambassador to Ireland
• William Kaplan, writer, former University of Ottawa professor
• James Kelleher, former member of the Senate of Canada
• William Lyon Mackenzie King, former longtime Prime Minister of Canada
• Peter Kormos, former Minister of Consumer and Commercial Relations, House Leader for the Ontario NDP Caucus
• Faisal Kutty, lawyer, writer, human rights activist and academic teaching at Osgoode Hall Law School and at Valparaiso University
• Judy LaMarsh, former federal Cabinet Minister, writer, and broadcaster
• Floyd Laughren, former Ontario Minister of Finance and Deputy Premier of Ontario
• Jerry Levitan, Academy Award nominated filmmaker
• William Ross Macdonald, former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
• Mark MacGuigan, former Attorney General of Canada
• Gavin MacKenzie, Treasurer of the Law Society of Upper Canada
• Alexander Malcolm Manson, former Attorney General of British Columbia
• Sergio Marchionne, CEO of Fiat and Chrysler Group, LLC
• Paul Martin Sr., longtime MP and Cabinet Minister
• John Matheson, former MP, retired Justice of Ontario, helped develop Canada's flag and the Order of Canada
• George Mcllraith, former acting Attorney General of Canada
• Arthur Meighen, former Prime Minister of Canada
• Willy Munyoki Mutunga, Chief Justice, Republic of Kenya
• Lisa Raitt, Canadian Minister of Labour, former Canadian Minister of Natural Resources
• William E. Raney, former Attorney General of Ontario and later Ontario Supreme Court Justice
• John Robarts, 17th Premier of Ontario
• Ted Rogers, President and CEO of Rogers Communications
• Ian Scott, former Attorney General of Ontario
• Greg Sorbara, former Ontario Minister of Finance
• Paula Todd, award-winning journalist formerly on TVO and currently host of The Verdict on CTV
• John Tory, former President and CEO of Rogers Communications, former Campaign Chair for former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, former leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario
• David Tsubouchi, former Solicitor General of Ontario
• Peter Van Loan, current Minister of Public Safety in the Canadian House of Commons
• Paul C. Weiler, Professor Emeritus, Harvard Law School
• George Stanley White, former Speaker of the Canadian Senate
• David Young, former Attorney General of Ontario