Event class: appointed, judge, court, became, counsel, queen, justice, supreme court, high court, chief justice

Events with high posterior probability

James Charles McKeagney	McKeagney was named Queen's Counsel in 1866.
George Leggatt	Sir George Andrew Midsomer Leggatt (born 12 November 1957) is a Justice of the High Court, one of the Senior Courts of England and Wales and is as such entitled to the judicial title Mr Justice Leggatt.
Henry Barnes Gresson	Soon after his arrival in Christchurch, Gresson was appointed Crown Prosecutor, but resigned from that post and his provincial roles when he was appointed acting judge in 1857 for the South Island.
John C. Major	He was appointed to the Court of Appeal of Alberta on July 11, 1991.
Douglas Johnston, Lord Johnston	In January 1961, Johnston was named as a Senator of the College of Justice, a judicial post, an appointment which vacated his Parliamentary seat.
Edward McTiernan	This was to be short-lived, as in 1930, one year into McTiernan's term, Prime Minister James Scullin controversially nominated him to the High Court of Australia.
Gurbax Singh Malhi	In 2003, he was appointed for life to the Queen's Privy Council for Canada by Prime Minister Paul Martin.
Robert John Pinsent (judge)	In 1865, he was named Queen's Counsel.
Michel Vennat	He was created a Queen's Counsel in 1983.
Harvey Brownstone	He was appointed a judge of the Ontario Court of Justice in 1995, making him the first openly gay judge in Canada.
George Brandis	Brandis was appointed a Senior Counsel of the Supreme Court of Queensland in November 2006.
Robin Millhouse	Millhouse chose instead to form a new political party, named the New LM, After having been made a Queen's Counsel in 1979, upon accepting a position as a South Australian Supreme Court justice.
Michael Kirby (judge)	In February 1996, Kirby was appointed to the High Court of Australia.
David Lynch Scott	However, on 15 September 1921, he became the Chief Justice of Alberta and presided over the Supreme Court of Alberta Appellate Division.
Anthony Mason (judge)	In 1969, Mason was made a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, where he sat as a member of the Court of Appeal.
Heath MacQuarrie	He served as a Member of Parliament for twenty-two consecutive years, until he was elevated to the Canadian Senate in 1979 on the advice of Joe Clark.
Schelto Patijn	On 16 June 1984 Patijn became commissioner of the queen in the province Zuid-Holland.
Augustus Keppel Stephenson	In 1889, he was made Queen's Counsel on the recommendation of Lord Chancellor Halsbury.
Adarsh Sein Anand	He was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of India, on 18 November 1991.
Arthur Roebuck	In 1945, he was appointed to the Canadian Senate by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, and remained in the Upper House until his death.
Marshall Rothstein	In 1999, he was appointed a Judge of the Federal Court of Canada, Appeal Division.
Patrick Keane	In 2005, Keane was appointed a Judge of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Queensland, the highest court in that state.
Kiddu Makubuya	He enrolled as an advocate of the Uganda High Court in 1985.
Sydney John Smith	He was appointed Speaker of the upper house in early 1966 on the advice of Lester Pearson and served for two years.
Geoffrey Briggs	He was appointed a Queen's Counsel for Nigeria in 1955.
Thomas McIlwraith	In March 1893 Griffith stepped down to join the Supreme Court of Queensland and McIlwraith became Premier again.
James Murdock	In 1930, he was summoned to the Senate representing the senatorial division of Parkdale, Ontario on the advice of Prime Minister Mackenzie King.
John Dyson, Lord Dyson	Dyson was appointed to the Bench of the High Court on 30 March 1993, sitting in the Queen's Bench Division, and received a knighthood.
John Douglas Armour	In 1901, he was appointed Chief Justice of Ontario.
Helen Alice Kinnear	She was the first woman in the British Commonwealth to be created a King's Counsel and the first in the Commonwealth appointed to a county-court bench and the first female lawyer in Canada to appear as counsel before the Supreme Court in Canada in 1935.
Yang Ti-liang	In March 1988, Yang was appointed Chief Justice of Hong Kong following recommendation of the Governor Sir David Wilson.
Andrew Li	In 1992, he was appointed member at-large of the Executive Council of Chris Patten (later Lord Patten), the last British governor of Hong Kong, and was appointed Commander of the Order of British Empire the same year.
John Doyle (judge)	During his time as Chief Justice, Doyle was appointed as an Acting Judge of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory in 2000 to hear an appeal concerning the appointment of the then Northern Territory Chief Magistrate Hugh Bradley.
Florence Baron	She was created a Dame upon her appointment as a Justice of the High Court (Family Division) in 2004.
James E. Lockyer	He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1987.
Cyril Walsh	On 1 January 1966, he was elevated to the newly established Court of Appeal of New South Wales (a branch of the Supreme Court), the first specialist appellate court in Australia.
George Leggatt	On 26 October 2012, he was appointed to the High Court, receiving the customary knighthood, and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division.
Edmond Blanchard	When the Federal Court of Canada was split into the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal in 2003, he took a seat on the Federal Court while maintaining his post on the Court Martial court.
Wilfred Fullagar	On 1 August 1945 he was made a Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria.
Lai Kew Chai	On July 1, 1981, he was appointed to the High Court at the age of 40, making him the youngest judge to be appointed to the High Court in Singapore.
Bertha Wilson	She was the first woman appointed to the Court of Appeal for Ontario in 1975.
Rosalie Abella	Abella practised civil and family law until 1976, when at the age of 29 she was appointed to the Ontario Family Court (now part of the Ontario Court of Justice), becoming both the youngest and first pregnant judge in Canadian history.
Hugh Holmes	Holmes became a Queen's Counsel (QC) in 1877.
Jeff Shaw (politician)	On 12 November 1986, Shaw was appointed Queen's Counsel.
Jean-Louis Baribeau	In 1938 he was appointed on the advice of Premier Maurice Duplessis to the Legislative Council of Quebec.
David Calvert-Smith	htm Mr Justice David Calvert-Smith retired from the High Court (Queens Bench Division) on 30 September 2012.
Mike Duffy	On December 22, 2008, Duffy was named a Prince Edward Island representative to the Senate of Canada on the advice of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, sitting as a Conservative.
Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss	She was the first female Lord Justice of Appeal and, until 2004, was the highest-ranking female judge in the United Kingdom.
George Reginald Geary	In 1935 he briefly served as the Minister of Justice in the Cabinet of R. B. Bennett and accordingly became a member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada.
Francis Godschall Johnson	In 1889, he was appointed the 4th Chief Justice of the Province of Quebec.
Mobina Jaffer	She was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1998.
Joseph-Th?ophile Larochelle	He resigned in 1948 to accept a seat in the Legislative Council of Quebec and represented the division of La Salle until his death.
Thomas Dawson, Lord Dawson	In 1992, he was appointed Solicitor General for Scotland, the deputy of the Lord Advocate, succeeding Alan Rodger, who was appointed to the superior post.
Francis Morris	Morris kept in political life until 1917 when he resigned from the House of Assembly to accept the appointment as Judge of the Central District Court.
Diana Bryant	She was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1997 and was a founding member of Chancery Chambers, Melbourne.
James Muirhead	He practised as a barrister and solicitor in the firm of Thomson & Co until 1970 when he was appointed as a Judge of the Local and District Criminal Court of South Australia.
William Webb (judge)	Webb was appointed as a puisne judge on 24 April 1925 to the Supreme Court of Queensland.
Maud de Boer-Buquicchio	She was elected President of Missing Children Europe in 2013, a position she took over from former Advocate General at the European Court of Justice, Sir Francis Jacobs.
David Eady	He was a member of One Brick Court chambers and, as a lawyer, specialised in media law until he was appointed a High Court Judge (Queen's Bench division) on 21 April 1997.
Louis Gerhard De Geer	He was a lawyer, and in 1855 became president of the Göta Hovrätt, or lord justice for the appellate court of Götaland.
Edgar Sydney Little	He was appointed to the Senate three years later in 1928, by the Prime Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King.
Robert Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay	The following year he was appointed a British member of the Court of Arbitration at The Hague, and in 1921 was elected a Judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice established by the League of Nations.
Romesh Chandra Mitra	When the post of chief justice was temporarily vacant in 1882, the Marquis of Ripon, then viceroy of India, appointed Romesh Chandra to officiate in that post - the highest judicial position in the Indian empire.
John Inglis, Lord Glencorse	He was responsible for the Universities (Scotland) Act 1858, and in the same year he was elevated to the bench as Lord Justice Clerk, with the judicial title Lord Glencorse.
Athol Moffitt	In 1969 Moffitt went to the New South Wales Court of Appeal.
William Campbell Sleigh	He became a serjeant-at-law in 1868, the last person received into Serjeants' Inn who was not a judge.
Denys Roberts	When he retired in 1988, his successor, Sir Ti-liang Yang, became the first Chinese Chief Justice in the colonial history of Hong Kong.
Louis LeBel	He stayed on the Court until he was appointed by Jean Chrétien to the Supreme Court in 2000.
Th?r?se Casgrain	In recognition of her achievements, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau appointed Casgrain to the Canadian Senate in 1970, where she sat as an independent for nine months before reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75.
Stephen Stanley Parker	In (about) 1874, he was appointed as a nominee member of the Legislative Council by Governor Sir William Robinson and held the position for eight years.
Harry Batshaw	In 1950, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent appointed him to the Quebec Superior Court.
John Reeves (judge)	On 1 May 2009 Justice Reeves was appointed as an Additional Judge of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory.
Edmund Herring	On 2 February 1944, the Victorian government decided to appoint Herring as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria.
Francis Godschall Johnson	On October 21, 1870 Lieutenant Governor Adams George Archibald appointed Francis as a Legislative Councillor in Rupert's Land and the Northwest Territories.
Helen E. Hoens	She was elevated to the Appellate Division in August, 2002 by Chief Justice Deborah T. Poritz.
Frederick de St Croix Brecken	In 1875, he was named Queen's Counsel.
Iain Macphail, Lord Macphail	In 2005, he was appointed a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the Court of Session and High Court of Justiciary, the Supreme Courts of Scotland.
David Kitchin	In 2011, he was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal effective 5 October 2011, and received the customary appointment to the Privy Council.
Michael Black (judge)	He was appointed Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia on 1 January 1991.
Harald Leslie, Lord Birsay	In 1965, he was appointed Chairman of the Scottish Land Court, taking the judicial title, Lord Birsay.
Rabinder Singh (judge)	Singh was sworn in as a High Court Judge at Royal Courts of Justice on Monday 10 October 2011.
Paul Reeves	On the advice of Prime Minister David Lange, Queen Elizabeth II appointed Reeves the 15th Governor-General of New Zealand on 22 November 1985.
Henry Milton Taylor	Nearly three years later, on 8 April 1991, Sir Henry was sworn in by Chief Justice Joaquim Gonsalves-Sabola as Governor-General of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, becoming the third Bahamian to hold this post.
Sally Thomas	It was announced on 6 October 2011 that Sally Thomas would appointed the 20th Administrator of the Northern Territory, as well as the first female in that role.
Robert Walker, Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe	He and nine other Lords of Appeal in Ordinary became Justices of the Supreme Court upon that body's inauguration on 1 October 2009.
Simon Brown, Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood	He and nine other Lords of Appeal in Ordinary became Justices of the Supreme Court upon that body's inauguration on 1 October 2009.
Ganga Singh	He later established a High Court with a Chief Justice and two sub-judges by an edict in 1922.
Helen Maksagak	Maksagak was appointed as Deputy Commissioner of the Northwest Territories in 1992.
James Blair (Australian judge)	In 1903, at the age of 33, Blair was invited to become Attorney-General of Queensland after Sir Arthur Morgan became Premier of Queensland One of Blair's first acts was to abolish the office of sheriff.
Harold Barrowclough	He returned to the legal profession and in 1953 was appointed Chief Justice of New Zealand.
Johan Ramstedt	Ramstedt was re-appointed Justice Councillor by his successor Prime Minister Lundeberg and in 1909 became the first Government Councillor of the newly created Supreme Administrative Court.
George Tuccaro	On May 12, 2010, Tuccaro was appointed Commissioner of the Northwest Territories.
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote	In 1907 Northcote and Deakin had a falling out when the Governor-General, on instructions from London, declined to give his assent to a bill restricting appeals from the Australian courts to the Privy Council in London.
Angus Glennie, Lord Glennie	He was appointed Queen's Counsel in Scotland in 1998.
Maurice Gwyer	The fact that the chief justice had at first little judicial work allowed him, with encouragement from the viceroy, to take in hand the reform of the University of Delhi ; Gwyer was appointed vice-chancellor in 1938.
Akira Machida	In 2000 he was appointed as a justice of the Supreme Court of Japan.
Keith Mason (judge)	He was appointed as a Queen's Counsel (QC) in 1981.
Robert McCall (lawyer)	In 1891, having already acquired a large junior practice, he took silk (that is, was appointed Queen's Counsel).
Elmer Sopha	Sopha was called to the bar two years later, and was named a Queen's Counsel in 1965.
Francis A. Chenoweth	Chenoweth served as judge on the high court until 1858.