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The 'Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba' is the superior court of the Canadian province of Manitoba. The court is divided into the Family Division and the General Division.
The Family Division deals with family law cases including divorces, guardianships, adoptions and child welfare.
The General Division deals with all other matters, including civil trials, probate law, indictable offences and applications for the review of decisions from certain administrative tribunals.

Contents

Current Justices

Past Justices

Further Reading

External links

Current Justices

Name	Appointed	Division
Chief Justice Marc M. Monnin	August 27, 1997	General
Associate Chief Justice Jeffrey J. Oliphant	August 22, 1985	General
Associate Chief Justice Gerald W. Mercier	September 15, 1989	Family
Mr. Justice Robert Carr	October 13, 1983	Family
Mr. Justice Gil R. Goodman	July 16, 2002	Family
Mr. Justice Kenneth R. Hanssen	March 23, 1984	General
Mr. Justice Daniel P. Kennedy	June 21, 1984	General
Mr. Justice Rodney H. Mykle	September 15, 1989	General
Madam Justice Robyn M. Diamond	September 15, 1989	Family
Mr. Justice A. Clearwater	March 12, 1992	General
Madam Justice Leá A. Duval	November 27, 1992	General
Madam Justice Holly C. Beard	November 27, 1992	General
Mr. Justice Nathan Nurgitz	February 10, 1993	General
Mr. Justice Kris Stefanson	May 28, 1993	Family
Mr. Justice Perry Schulman	May 28, 1993	General
Madam Justice Sylvia Guertin-Riley	July 26, 1995	Family
Madam Justice Brenda L. Keyser	October 3, 1995	General
Mr. Justice John A. Menzies	August 7, 1996	General
Madam Justice Deborah J. McCawley	September 17, 1997	General
Mr. Justice Donald M. Little	February 10, 1998	Family
Mr. Justice Morris Kaufman	October 6, 1998	General
Madam Justice Laurie P. Allen	October 6, 1998	Family
Mr. Justice Douglas D. Yard	October 6, 1998	Family
Mr. Justice Donald P. Bryk	February 16, 1999	General
Mr. Justice Frank Aquila	February 28, 2000	Family
Mr. Justice Robert B. Doyle	February 28, 2000	Family
Mr. Justice C. Murray Sinclair	January 31, 2001	General
Madam Justice Joan G. McKelvey	September 27, 2001	General
Mr. Justice John Scurfield	July 16, 2002	General
Madam Justice Colleen Suche	July 16, 2002	General
Madam Justice Marilyn E. Goldberg	July 16, 2002	Family
Madam Justice Shawn D. Greenberg	October 28, 2003	General
Madam Justice Karen I. Simonsen	December 9, 2004	General
Madam Justice Marianne Rivoalen	February 2, 2005	Family
Madam Justice Lori T. Spivak	May 19, 2005	General
Madam Justice A. Lori Douglas	May 19, 2005	Family
Madam Justice A. Catherine Everett	November 22, 2006	Family
Mr. Justice Michael A. Thomson	June 1, 2007	Family
Mr. Justice Glenn D. Joyal	June 22, 2007	General
Mr. Justice Douglas N. Abra	June 22, 2007	General

Under the federal Judges Act, federally appointed judges (such as those on the Manitoba Court of Appeal) may, after being in judicial office for at least 15 years and whose combined age and number of years of judicial service is not less than 80 or after the age of 70 years and at least 10 years judicial service, elect to give up their regular judicial duties and hold office as a supernumerary judge.
The following justices have elected supernumerary status:

★ Mr. Justice Carr (December 14, 2006)

★ Mr. Justice Goodman (December 14, 2006)

★ Mr. Justice Kennedy (December 21, 2004)

★ Mr. Justice Clearwater (July 10, 2007)

★ Mr. Justice Nurgitz (June 22, 2004)

★ Madam Justice Guertin-Riley (September 16, 2006)

Past Justices

★ Alexander Morris

★ James Charles McKeagney

★ Louis Betourney

★ Edmund Burke Wood

★ Joseph Dubuc (Chief Justice of Manitoba from August 8, 1903 until 1909)

★ James Andrews Miller

★ Lewis Wallbridge

★ Thomas Wardlaw Taylor

★ Robert Smith

★ Albert Clements Killam

★ John Farquhar Bain

★ Albert Elswood Richards

★ William Edgerton Perdue

★ Thomas Graham Mathers

★ Daniel Alexander Macdonald

★ John Donald Cameron

★ Thomas Llewellyn Metcalfe

★ James Emile Pierre Prendergast

★ Hugh Amos Robson

★ Alexander Casmir Galt

★ John Philpot Curran

★ Andrew Knox Dysart

★ John Evans Adamson

★ James Frederick Kilgour

★ William James Donovan

★ Percival John Montague

★ Fawcett Gowler Taylor

★ Ewan Alexander McPherson

★ William James Major

★ Esten Kenneth Williams

★ Arnold Munroe Campbell

★ Joseph Thomas Beaubien

★ John Joseph Kelly

★ Robert George Brian Dickson

★ John Alton Duncan

★ Richard J. Scott (currently serving as Chief Justice of the Manitoba Court of Appeal)

★ Michel A. Monnin (currently serving as a judge on the Manitoba Court of Appeal)

★ Freda M. Steel (currently serving as a judge on the Manitoba Court of Appeal)

★ Barbara M. Hamilton (currently serving as a judge on the Manitoba Court of Appeal)

★ Alan D. MacInnes (currently serving as a judge on the Manitoba Court of Appeal)

Further Reading

★ Dale Brawn, "The Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba 1870-1950: A Biographical History" (Toronto: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2006)

★ Russell Smandych and Karina Sacca, "The Development of Criminal Law Courts in Pre-1870 Manitoba" (1996) 24 Man. L. J. 201

External links

★ Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba website

★ Publicly accessible court registry system

★ Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba decisions database