Alison Harvison Young

Alison Harvison Young is a judge of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. She was appointed to that court on August 31, 2018.[1]

Early life and education

Alison Harvison Young earned a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B. and B.C.L.) degree from McGill University in 1983 and a B.C.L. from Oxford University in 1988.[2][3]

Career

Harvison Young served as law clerk to Justice Willard Estey of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1983 to 1984.[2]

She then worked as a legal academic in family law. She taught at Faculty of Law at McGill University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.[2][3] Before being appointed judge, she was the dean of the Faculty of Law at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.[2][4]

Harvison Young was appointed as a judge of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario by the Canadian government on November 19, 2004 and served until 2018.[3][5][6]

She was appointed judge of the Court of Appeal for Ontario on August 31, 2018.[1][7]

References

  1. ^ a b "Government of Canada announces judicial appointments in the province of Ontario". August 31, 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d "Speaker bios | Biographies des conférenciers". Rod Macdonald's Legal Imagination - A Symposium. Retrieved December 10, 2025.
  3. ^ a b c Ontario Judicial Appointments Announced, 2004-11-19.
  4. ^ "Former Dean appointed to Ontario Court of Appeal | Queen's Law". law.queensu.ca. Retrieved December 10, 2025.
  5. ^ Queen's Law Reports, Issue 2005, https://law.queensu.ca/sites/lawwww/files/publication/QLR/QLR%20lawReport2005.pdf
  6. ^ "Former Judges". www.ontariocourts.ca. Retrieved December 10, 2025.
  7. ^ "Feds appoint 7 new judges in Ontario | Globalnews.ca". Global News. Retrieved December 10, 2025.
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