As the Supreme Court of Canada prepares for its fall session, its newest judge, Justice Russell Brown, was officially welcomed in a ceremony held at the court in Ottawa this morning.
Brown was appointed in late July by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to replace retiring justice Marshall Rothstein, who left the bench on Aug. 31.
Brown was appointed to the Alberta Court of Appeal in Edmonton last year after just 13 months on the Court of Queen’s Bench. He also served as a judge of the Court of Appeal for the Northwest Territories and a judge of the Court of Appeal of Nunavut.
Before being appointed to the bench, Brown served as an associate professor and associate dean at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law. He was also associate counsel with Miller Thomson LLP in Edmonton and practised at Carfra & Lawton LLP and Davis & Co. (now DLA Piper LLP) in Vancouver.
