New Judicial Appointments

CLEBC Staff/May 10, 2010

The Honourable Anne W. MacKenzie, a judge of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, has been appointed Associate Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia. She replaces the Honourable Justice Patrick Dohm, who retired.

Associate Chief Justice MacKenzie was called to the British Columbia Bar in 1978. In 1990, she was appointed to the Provincial Court of British Columbia, and was elevated to the Supreme Court of British Columbia in 1996.

Associate Chief Justice MacKenzie is an active and long-time member of the British Columbia Supreme Court’s Criminal Law Committee, and has served on the Executive Committee of the Court. She has participated regularly in the Court’s annual education programs, trial advocacy and Continuing Legal Education programs.

Grant Sheard has been appointed to the bench of the British Columbia Provincial Court in Cranbrook. He will take his seat May 17.

Sheard was called to the Bar in 1986 and has practiced civil, family and criminal law since then, for many years in Cranbrook. He served as Crown counsel in Cranbrook from 1991 to 2000. He serves on the court services committee of the Canadian Bar Association (B.C. branch).