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Newfoundland Judicial Appointment Announced
March 19, 1996
Ottawa, Ontario
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien today announced the following
appointment effective immediately:
The Honourable Mr. Justice James Randell Gushue of St. John's
is appointed Chief Justice of Newfoundland. He replaces Chief
Justice N. Goodridge who has chosen to be a supernumerary judge.
Chief Justice Gushue has served as a justice of Newfoundland Court
of Appeal since 1976.
Chief Justice Gushue graduated from Oxford University as a Rhodes
Scholar in 1959 and was admitted to the Bar of Newfoundland in
1960. Prior to his appointment to the Bench, he practised law
with the firm of Stirling, Ryan, Goodridge and Gushue in St. John's.
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