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The Honourable
Mr. Justice George W. Baynton
(Chairman)
The Honourable Mr. Justice George W. Baynton has been a Superior Court Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench for Saskatchewan since 1990. He is the northern administrative judge of the court which holds sittings at various judicial centres throughout the province. He graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Saskatchewan. Prior to his federal appointment to the bench, Mr. Justice Baynton practiced law for 24 years in Lloydminster and was a member of the Canadian Bar Association and of the Law Societies of Alberta and Saskatchewan. In 1977, he was designated a Queen's Counsel by the Province of Alberta.
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Mr. F. William Johnson
(Member)
Mr. F. William Johnson has practiced law in Regina since 1978. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1997. Mr. Johnson graduated from the University of Saskatchewan in 1973 with a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Bachelor of Laws degree. In 1975, he was granted a Master of Laws degree by the University of Oxford, England, where he studied on a Rhodes Scholarship. Prior to his present position, he clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada from 1977 to 1978 and, from 1975 to 1977, taught law at the College of Law of the University of Saskatchewan. He has been active in the Canadian Bar Association at the provincial and national levels, and currently serves as its national Second Vice-President.
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Mr. David E. Smith
(Member)
Mr. David E. Smith is a professor of political studies at the University of Saskatchewan. He holds degrees from the University of Western Ontario, Duke University and the University of Saskatchewan. A faculty member of the University of Saskatchewan since 1964, Mr. Smith was book review editor of Canadian Journal of Political Science from 1979 to 1984. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1981, and served as President of the Canadian Political Science Association in 1994-95. He is co-editor of Drawing Boundaries: Courts, Legislation and Electoral Values. His book The Republican Option in Canada: Past and Present received the Smiley Prize from the Canadian Political Science Association.
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