Companion of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: May 11, 2018
• Invested on: May 08, 2019

The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C., C.C.
Ottawa, Ontario

Beverley McLachlin has had a prodigious impact on CanadaÆs 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 nationÆs 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.