OTTAWA – Justice Marie Deschamps is retiring from the Supreme Court of Canada, leaving Prime Minister Stephen Harper to fill a third court vacancy in less than a year.
Deschamps will step down in August after a decade on the court.
Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin says Deschamps’s retirement will be effective on August 7 – 10 years to the day after she was appointed and a few months shy of her 60th birthday.
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Deschamps says serving as judge for 22 of her 37 working years was a privilege but she is looking for other ways to serve society.
She previously served on the Quebec Court of Appeal and the Quebec Superior Court.
Her departure is the third in less than a year from the country’s highest court, following the appointments last fall of justices Andromache Karakatsanis and Michael Moldaver.
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