Honourable Justice Thomas A. Cromwell, C.C.
Senior Counsel, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, & Former Justice, Supreme Court of Canada

The Honourable Thomas Albert Cromwell, C.C. received law degrees from Queen’s and Oxford, practised law in Kingston and Toronto and taught law at Dalhousie University. After serving as Executive Legal Officer to the Chief Justice Canada, he was appointed a judge of the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal in 1997, serving there until his appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court of Canada in 2008 where he served until 2016.

A member of the Bars of Nova Scotia, Ontario and British Columbia, he is senior counsel with Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Ottawa and Vancouver and an arbitrator/mediator with Arbitration Place. Mr. Cromwell is an honorary fellow of Exeter College, Oxford and of the American College of Trial Lawyers and is the holder of four honorary doctorates in law. A Companion of the Order of Canada, he was recognized in 2018 by Canadian Lawyer Magazine as of one Canada’s most influential lawyers.