Frank Iacobucci was the first Italian-Canadian judge on the court.
38 Facts About Frank Iacobucci
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Frank Iacobucci has had a distinguished career in private practice, academia, the civil service and the judiciary.
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Frank Iacobucci currently serves as senior counsel at the business law firm Torys LLP.
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Frank Iacobucci was born in Vancouver, British Columbia to working-class Italian immigrants, Gabriel Frank Iacobucci and Rosina Pirillo.
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Frank Iacobucci's father emigrated from Abruzzo in 1922 and his mother emigrated from Calabria in 1925.
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Frank Iacobucci was the third of four children and attended Britannia Secondary School.
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Frank Iacobucci was called by The Law Society of Upper Canada to the Ontario bar in 1970.
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Frank Iacobucci subsequently served as associated dean of the faculty from 1973 to 1975, and was a visiting fellow at Wolfson College in 1978.
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Frank Iacobucci served as dean of the faculty from 1979 to 1983.
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Frank Iacobucci acted as vice-president and provost of the university from November 1983 to September 1985.
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Frank Iacobucci was director for the National Congress of Italian Canadians from 1979 to 1983, and became vice-president in 1980, serving for three years.
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Frank Iacobucci was vice-president and member on the board of governors for the Canadian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies from 1981 to 1998.
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Additionally, Frank Iacobucci was the director of Cambridge Canada Trust for seven years beginning in 1984.
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Frank Iacobucci entered the public service in 1985 as Deputy Minister of Justice and Deputy Attorney General of Canada in the federal government.
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Frank Iacobucci was a principal member of the federal team in negotiations over the Meech Lake Accord in 1987.
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Frank Iacobucci was a member of the Canadian Judicial Council and Education Committee from 1988 to 1991 and was on the executive committee in his last year.
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Frank Iacobucci is a former elder at Islington United Church.
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On January 7,1991, Justice Frank Iacobucci was appointed as justice of the Supreme Court of Canada by Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney and served in this capacity until retiring on July 1,2004.
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In 1996, Frank Iacobucci sat on the advisory committee as a member for McGill University Faculty of Law until 2004.
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Frank Iacobucci was a member of the advisory board for the Institute of Canadian Studies at the University of Ottawa from 1998 to 2004.
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Frank Iacobucci was a conduct review advisor with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board from 2005 to 2018 and a member of the Ontario Law Commission from 2006 to 2012.
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Frank Iacobucci was appointed by the Government of Canada in June 2005 as its representative to lead discussions toward a fair and lasting resolution of the legacy of Indian residential schools.
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Frank Iacobucci is the chair of the Dean's Advisory Committee for the National Centre for Business Law at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law.
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Frank Iacobucci sat on a number of board of directors including Torstar, publisher of the Toronto Star and a series of smaller newspapers and owner of Harlequin Enterprises, a global publisher of popular romance novels.
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Frank Iacobucci served as the commissioner of an internal inquiry into the role of Canadian officials in the torture and detention of three Arab-Canadians in Syria and Egypt as the personal appointee of Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper.
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Frank Iacobucci expressed hope his report would serve as a wake-up call to remedy broader and systemic issues that are at the heart of the current dysfunctional relationship between Ontario's justice system and Aboriginal peoples in the province.
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Frank Iacobucci joined the advisory board of General Motors of Canada in 2006, where he continues to serve to this day.
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On October 3,2018, Frank Iacobucci was appointed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to the position of special envoy for the controversial Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion.
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Frank Iacobucci was appointed a Queen's Counsel, which changed to King's Counsel automatically upon the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the accession of King Charles III on 8 September 2022.
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Frank Iacobucci has received numerous awards, medals, honours and other recognition from across Canada and from organizations in the United States, the United Kingdom and Italy.
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Frank Iacobucci was made an Honorary Fellow of St John's College and Honorary Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyer in 1999.
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Frank Iacobucci was awarded the Medaglia d'Argento del Presidente della Repubblica Italiana in 2000.
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Frank Iacobucci acquired the Canadian-Italian National Award back in the year 2000.
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Frank Iacobucci was given Honorary Citizenship to municipalities: Magone, Cosenza and Cepegatti, Pescara, both located in Italy.
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On behalf of the Governor General of Canada, Frank Iacobucci was awarded the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal in 1992.
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Frank Iacobucci than met with academic leaders, professors and students of the Hebrew University and of Tel Aviv University.
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In 2009, Frank Iacobucci received a star on the Italian Walk of Fame in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Frank Iacobucci met Harvard-educated lawyer Nancy Elizabeth Eastham while they were both at Cambridge.