The Distinguished Service Award

Past Recipients

2025 – Judge Mary Kate Harvie
2024 – Garth Smorang, K.C.
2023 – Grant Mitchell, K.C. 
2022 – Douglas Finkbeiner, K.C.
2021 – Donna Miller, K.C.
2020 – Chrys Pappas, K.C.
2019 – Justice Brenda Keyser
2018 – K. Eleanor Wiebe, K.C.
2017 – J. Guy Joubert
2016 – Justice Murray Sinclair
2015 – Justice Freda Steel
2014 – Alan Scarth, C.M., K.C.
2013 – Justice Marshall Rothstein
2012 – Judge John Guy
2011 – Roland Penner, C.M., K.C.
2010 – Justice Sylvia Guertin-Riley
2009 – Judge Ronald J. Meyers
2008 – David Matas
2007 – Professor D. Trevor Anderson, K.C.
2006 – Dr. Arthur Mauro, O.C., O.M., K.C.
2005 – The Honourable Alfred Monnin, O.C.
2004 – The Late Israel Harold Asper, O.C., K.C.
2003 – The Honourable Benjamin Hewak
2002 – Yude Henteleff, C.M., K.C.
2001 – Martin H. Freedman, K.C.
2000 – The Honourable Ruth Krindle
1999 – Chief Justice Richard J. Scott
1996 – The Honourable Charles R. Huband
1995 – Clifford H.C. Edwards, K.C.
1994 – Harold Buchwald, C.M., K.C.
1993 – J.F. Reeh Taylor, K.C.
1992 – A. Lorne Campbell, O.C., K.C.
1991 – Donald A. Thompson, K.C.
1990 – G. Campbell MacLean, K.C.
1989 – Frank O. Meighen, K.C.
1988 – To Ruth Matas in memory of the Honourable Roy Matas
1987 – The Honourable Frank Muldoon
1986 – The Honourable Samuel Freedman
1985 – Harry Walsh, K.C.
1984 – Judge Maxwell Cohen
1983 – Keith Turner, K.C.
1982 – The Honourable R.G.B. Dickson