Frank Marrocco Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Honourable
Frank Marrocco
Office:Associate Chief Justice of the
Superior Court of Justice Ontario
Term Start:June 6, 2013
Term End:November 10, 2020
Predecessor:J. Douglas Cunningham
Successor:Faye McWatt
Appointer:Stephen Harper
Order1:58th
Office1:Treasurer of the Law Society of Upper Canada
Term Start1:2003
Term End1:2005
Predecessor1:Vern Krishna
Successor1:George Douglas Hunter

Frank Neal Stephen Marrocco served as a Canadian judge from 2005 until 2020 and as Associate Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Justice from 2013 to 2020.[1] He was initially appointed to the Superior Court of Justice in 2005 on the recommendation of Prime Minister Paul Martin [2] and then elevated in 2013[3] to Associate Chief Justice by Prime Minister Stephen Harper.[4]

Marrocco is a former Queen's Counsel and was a partner at Gowlings.[5] He was first elected as a Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1995, and he was elected its treasurer (the highest elected position) in 2003.[6]

In July 2020, Marrocco was appointed by the Ontario Government as a Member of the Independent Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission.[7]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.ontariocourts.ca/scj/judges/current/#Exec/ Ontario Courts website
  2. Web site: Orders In Council - Search. Canada. Government of. orders-in-council.canada.ca. en. 2019-06-24.
  3. Web site: Orders In Council - Search. Canada. Government of. orders-in-council.canada.ca. en. 2019-06-24.
  4. Web site: Nortel Trial: Inside Judge Frank Marrocco's courtroom . Ottawa Citizen . 15 February 2012 . 30 March 2015 . Bagnall, James.
  5. http://www.gowlings.com/News/news.asp?newsID=817/ News release from Gowlings website, June 12, 2013
  6. http://www.lsuc.on.ca/with.aspx?id=421 The Law Society of Upper Canada, List of Law Society Treasurers
  7. https://news.ontario.ca/en/backgrounder/57814/members-of-the-independent-long-term-care-covid-19-commission Members of the Independent Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission