The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C., C.C.
Ottawa, Ontario
Beverley McLachlin has had a prodigious impact on Canada’s legal landscape. After practising law in Alberta and British Columbia, and teaching at the University of British Columbia, she served as a judge and chief justice there, before being appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada. As our longest-serving chief justice and the first woman in the role, she has presided over some of the nation’s most important cases. Throughout her career, she has striven to ensure the primacy of the rule of law, and has promoted impartiality, equality and access to justice for all.