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.

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.

Career

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

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. Before being appointed judge, she was the dean of the Faculty of Law at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.

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.

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

References

  1. 1 2 "Government of Canada announces judicial appointments in the province of Ontario". August 31, 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Speaker bios | Biographies des conférenciers". Rod Macdonald's Legal Imagination - A Symposium. Retrieved December 10, 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 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.