Biography

The Honourable Mr. Justice Wallace S. Turnbull

Born in Montreal, QC; preliminary education at Rothesay Collegiate School and Trinity College School; B.A., Dalhousie University, 1960; B.C.L., U.N.B. 1963; post-graduate work at University of Michigan, 1963. Called to the New Brunswick Bar 1963 and appointed Queen's Counsel 1986.

Practised law in Saint John, N.B. from January 1964 until appointed to the New Brunswick Court of Appeal on May 5, 1993.

Earned a Commission in the Royal Canadian Navy (Reserve) while attending university.

Chair of the Construction Division and Vice-Chair of the New Brunswick Industrial Relations Board from 1975-1989, and served as an arbitrator and Chair of Boards of Arbitration in labour and commercial adjudications.

Member of the Council of the New Brunswick Law Society 1971-74. Member of the National Council of the Canadian Bar Association, 1969-1981. President of the New Brunswick Branch of the Canadian Bar Association, 1973-75, and also a member of the Saint John Law Society, Governor of the Canadian Tax Foundation, 1987-1990, an International Associate of the American Bar Association and International Bar Association.

Served as a Director of Canada Ports Corporation from May 30, 1987 until May 1993.

Appointed one of the six public directors of the Investment Dealers Association of Canada in June, 1992 for a two year term. .

Was a member of the Saint John Advisory Board to Canada Permanent Trust Company.

Served as a Director of the Greater Saint John Economic Development Commission, a member of the Saint John Board of Trade and a member of its Council, Executive Committee and as Treasurer.

President of the Turnbull Home, a charitable nursing home; Past Chair of the Board of Governors of Rothesay Collegiate School; former Chancellor of the Anglican Diocese of Fredericton.

Served as the New Brunswick member of the Federation of Law Societies Committee which studied and reported on the Inter-Jurisdictional Practice of Law in Canada. Served a three year term on the Executive Committee of the Canadian Superior Courts Judges Association.

Married to Charlotte (neé Gibbon). Three children and five grandchildren.