The Canadian Bar Association is a professional, voluntary organization which was formed in 1896, and incorporated by a Special Act of Parliament on April 15, 1921. The Ontario Branch has been in existence since 1907 and was incorporated on April 22, 1985.
The following is a list of past presidents of the Ontario Bar Association.
Past Presidents
Kathryn Manning – 2024-2025
Kelly McDermott- 2023-2024
Karen Perron- 2022-2023
Charlene D. Theodore- 2021-2022
Colin Stevenson- 2019-2020
Lynne M.J. Vicars- 2018-2019
Quinn M. Ross- 2017-2018
David L. Sterns- 2016-2017
Edwin G. Upenieks- 2015-2016
Orlando Da Silva, LSM- 2014-2015
Pascale Daigneault- 2013-2014
Morris A. Chochla- 2012-2013
The Hon. Paul R. Sweeny- 2011-2012
R. Lee Akazaki- 2010-2011
The Hon. Carole J. Brown- 2009-2010
The Hon. Jamie K. Trimble- 2008-2009
Gregory D. Goulin, LSM- 2007-2008
James C. Morton- 2006-2007
The Hon. Heather McGee- 2005-2006
Ian Kirby- 2004-2005
Jonathan Speigel- 2003-2004
Virginia MacLean, K.C- 2002-2003
James F. O’Brien- 2001-2002
Thomas C. Marshall- 2000-2001
Susan T. McGrath- 1999-2000
Steven F. Rosenhek- 1998-1999
William J. Simpson, K.C, LSM- 1997-1998
The Hon. Michelle K. Fuerst- 1996-1997
Douglas J. Los- 1995-1996
Igor Ellyn, K.C- 1994-1995
D. Kevin Carroll, K.C- 1993-1994
Erica L. James- 1992-1993
J. Kenneth Alexander- 1991-1992
Garth Manning, K.C- 1990-1991
Thomas G. Heintzman, K.C- 1989-1990
J. Douglas Grenkie, K.C- 1988-1989
Harvey J. Bliss, K.C- 1987-1988
Stephen R. Cameron- 1986-1987
J. Alex Langford, K.C- 1985-1986
Thomas E. Evans, K.C- 1984-1985
The Hon. Lorraine Gotlib- 1983-1984
Raymond J. Ostiguy- 1982-1983
John R. Finley, K.C- 1981-1982
The Hon. Joseph Potts- 1980-1981
The Hon. Mr. Justice John R.R. Jennings- 1979-1980
William H. Kidd, K.C- 1978-1979
Ian W. Outerbridge, K.C- 1977-1978
Donald E. Smith, K.C- 1976-1977
Donald H.L. Lamont, K.C- 1975-1976
Bernard Shaffer, K.C- 1974-1975
T.B. Oliver McKeag, K.C- 1973-1974
The Hon. W.Z. Estey- 1972-1973
Alan T. Marshall, K.C- 1971-1972
John M. Hodgson, K.C, LSM- 1970-1971
William L.N. Somerville, K.C- 1969-1970
Patrick G. Furlong, K.C
The Hon. F. Joseph Cornish- 1967-1968
D. Donald Diplock, K.C- 1966-1967
The Hon. George S. Ferguson- 1965-1966
Stewart S. MacInnes, K.C- 1964-1965
Arthur S. Pattillo, K.C- 1963-1964
The Hon. Gregory T. Evans- 1962-1963
The Hon. John H. Osler- 1961-1962
William S. Martin, K.C- 1960-1961
John T. Weir, K.C- 1959-1960
Joseph Jeffery, K.C- 1958-1959
Vernon W. Armstrong, K.C- 1957-1958
Stanley E. Fennell, K.C- 1956-1957
George A. McGillivray, K.C- 1955-1956
Wilfrid Gregory, K.C- 1954-1955
Edson L. Haines, K.C- 1953-1954
Cecil W. Robinson, K.C- 1952-1953
James R. Maclaren, K.C- 1951-1952
Arthur Kelly, K.C- 1950-1951
D. Park Jamieson, M.B.E., K.C- 1948-1950
E. Gordon Gowling, K.C- 1946-1948
Fred Holmes Barlow, K.C.- 1944-1946
James C. McRuer, K.C.- 1943-1944
Kenneth F. Mackenzie, K.C.- 1939-1943
John R. Marshall, K.C.- 1938-1939
Ward Wright, K.C.- 1935-1938
Henry Hague Davis, K.C.- 1934-1935
Dalton Lally McCarthy, K.C.- 1930-1934
N.W. Rowell, K.C.- 1927-1930
Wallace Nesbitt, K.C.- 1923-1927
George P. Henderson, K.C- 1922-1923
M.H. Ludwig, K.C.- 1919-1922
Sir Allen Aylesworth, K.C.- 1918-1919
E.F.B. Johnston, K.C.- 1915-1917
