Frank Iacobucci
| Frank Iacobucci | |
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| Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada | |
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In office January 7, 1991 – June 30, 2004 |
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| Nominated by | Brian Mulroney |
| Preceded by | Bertha Wilson |
| Succeeded by | Rosalie Abella/Louise Charron |
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| Born |
June 29, 1937 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
Frank Iacobucci, CC QC (born June 29, 1937) was a Puisne Justice on the Supreme Court of Canada from 1991 to 2004 when he retired from the bench. He is an expert in business and tax law.
The son of Italian immigrants, Iacobucci was born in Vancouver, where he attended Britannia Secondary School. He received a B.Comm. and LL.B. from the University of British Columbia and an LL.M. from the University of Cambridge. While attending the University of British Columbia, he became a brother of Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI).
Iacobucci practiced corporate law in New York City and then served as a professor at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law from 1967 until 1982 as well as Dean of the law faculty from 1979 until 1982. He also served as Vice-President and Provost of the university from 1983 to 1985. He entered the public service as Deputy Minister of Justice in the federal government from 1985 to 1988 when he was appointed Chief Justice of the Federal Court. In 1991, Justice Iacobucci was appointed as Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada by Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney and served in this capacity until retiring in 2004.
Following his retirement from the Supreme Court, Iacobucci was appointed Interim President of the University of Toronto in 2004 and served in that post until he was replaced by David Naylor in October 2005. In September of that same year he joined Torys LLP, as Counsel, and since 2005 has been the Chair of the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario. He is the Chair of the Dean's Advisory Committee for the National Centre for Business Law at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law.
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