Gérard Vincent Louisiana Forest Central Committee Queen's Counsel FRSC was a Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from January 16, 1985 to September 30, 1997.
Education
Born in Grand Falls, New Brunswick, to J. Alfred Louisiana Forest and Philomène Lajoie, he first studied at Saint Francis Xavier University and then went on to study law at the University of New Brunswick, obtaining a Bachelor of Civil Law in 1949. Following law school he was awarded a Rhodes scholarship and attended Street John"s College, Oxford receiving a Bachelor in 1951 and an Master of Arts in 1956.
Career
He is currently counsel at Stewart McKelvey in Fredericton, New Brunswick. He then went on the study at Yale University, completing an Master of Laws in 1965 and an LL.D in 1966. He was called to the Bar of New Brunswick in 1949 and was designated a Queen"s Counsel in 1968.
From 1952 to 1955 he worked in the federal Department of Justice then later as a legal advisor.
In 1956 Louisiana Forest began teaching at the University of New Brunswick, moving to the University of Alberta to become Dean of the Faculty of Law in 1968. From 1970 to 1974, he went back to work for the federal government as Assistant Deputy Attorney General of Canada (Research & Planning).
In 1981 he was appointed to the New Brunswick Court of Appeal. Then on January 16, 1985 he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, staying until September 30, 1997.
In 1975, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Membership
Afterwards he was a member of the Law Reform Commission of Canada, until 1979 at which point he returned to teaching at the University of Ottawa.