{"id":12072,"date":"2024-02-26T14:29:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T19:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/?page_id=12072"},"modified":"2025-10-14T10:26:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:26:57","slug":"the-honourable-john-d-richard","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/honorary-degree-guidelines-and-nominations\/the-honourable-john-d-richard\/","title":{"rendered":"The Honourable John D. Richard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        The Honourable John D. Richard\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/The-Honourable-John-D.-Richard-160x190.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12073\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/The-Honourable-John-D.-Richard-160x190.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/The-Honourable-John-D.-Richard.png 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Honourable John D. Richard was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, in recognition of outstanding contribution to public life in defence of the independence of the judiciary and service to Carleton University.<br>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Honourable John D. Richard graduated from the University of Ottawa with a degree in Political Science in 1955 and from the Osgoode Hall Law School in 1959. He was called to the Ontario Bar the same year. In 1960, he graduated from Louvain University in Belgium with a Licentiate in Political and Social Sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He practised law with Gowling &amp; Henderson from 1960 to 1988 and with Lang Michener from 1988 to 1994. He was appointed Queen&#8217;s Counsel in 1976, and Judge of the Federal Court of Canada in 1994. In 1999, he was appointed Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Canada. With a change in the law in 2003, he became the Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Appeal and served there until he retired in 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had been involved in many charitable and philanthropic organizations prior to his appointment to the judiciary. He served on Carleton\u2019s Board of Governors from 1982 to 1990, where he contributed significantly to fundraising efforts and served on the Personnel Committee dealing with mandates for negotiations with faculty and staff unions. He lectured in public law at Carleton in the 1960s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2009, he was made the Honorary Chairperson of Reach Canada, a non-governmental organization that helps people with disabilities to get legal help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7LsqyhJcrKY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WATCH THE AWARD CEREMONY OF The Honourable John D. Richard<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Honourable John D. Richard was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, in recognition of outstanding contribution to public life in defence of the independence of the judiciary and service to Carleton University. The Honourable John D. 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