Charlene Moore appointed as judge of Nova Scotia Supreme Court’s Family Division
The Canadian government has announced the appointments of Alan S. Diner as the new chief justice of the Federal Court and of Charlene J. Moore as a judge of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia (Family Division) in Sydney.
Prime Minister Mark Carney explained that Diner takes the place of Paul S. Crampton, who retired effective Oct. 31, 2025.
Sean Fraser – Canada’s justice minister, attorney general, and minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency – noted that Moore replaces Justice Lee Anne MacLeod-Archer in Sydney, who resigned as of May 31, 2025.
“I wish Justice Moore every success as she takes on her new role,” Fraser said in a news release. “I am confident she will serve the people of Nova Scotia well as a member of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia.”
News releases from the prime minister’s office and the federal justice department provided more information about the judicial appointees.
Alan Diner
Diner received his appointment as a Federal Court judge in 2014. He has chaired the court’s immigration and technology committees.
Before becoming a judge, he headed the Canadian immigration law practice group of Baker & McKenzie, which he joined in 2008. The Law Society of Ontario certified him as an immigration law specialist in 2013.
Diner served in senior public service roles, including managing the establishment of the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program for the province’s Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration.
He worked in the areas of immigration and administrative law at law firms such as Bennett Jones LLP and McCarthy Tétrault LLP in Toronto, as well as Flavell Kubrick & Lalonde in Ottawa.
Owing to his community service and board and pro bono work, Diner received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal and the Canadian Immigration Lawyers Association’s inaugural President’s Award.
He founded the Immigration Law Moot and helped judge the Fox and Wilson Moots. He taught at the University of Toronto, Bond University, and other law faculties,
Diner gained admission to the bars of Ontario in 1995 and New York in 2005. From Osgoode Hall Law School, he earned an LLB and an LLM in international trade and competition law.
Charlene Moore
Since 2022, Moore has served as chief executive officer of the Nova Scotia Legal Aid Commission in Halifax. She joined Nova Scotia Legal Aid in 1999 and helped open its first office in an Indigenous community in partnership with Sipekne’katik First Nation.
For 18 years, she handled family and social justice law matters, including child protection, adult protection, residential tenancies, and Income Assistance and Canada Pension Plan disability appeals. She also supported social work services for Indigenous and African Nova Scotian clients.
Moore belonged to the Association of Legal Aid Plans and the Federal-Provincial/Territorial Permanent Working Group on Legal Aid.
In 2002 and 2022, she won the Queen Elizabeth II Gold and Platinum Jubilee Medals for Nova Scotia. In 2019, she received a King’s Counsel designation.
Moore gained admission to the Nova Scotia bar in 1999. She obtained her BA from Dalhousie University in 1994 and her LLB from Dalhousie University’s Schulich School of Law in 1998.
