The President, known as the Treasurer from 1874 to 1998, is the chief elected official of the Law Society.
| President/Treasurer | District or County | Years |
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David Babbington Ring | Victoria | 1869-1874 |
John Foster McCreight, QC | Victoria | 1874-1880 |
J. Roland Hett | Victoria | 1880-1884 |
Montague W. Tyrwhitt-Drake, QC | Victoria | 1884-1889 |
Albert N. Richards, QC | Victoria | 1889-1892; 1894-1897 |
Charles E. Pooley, KC | Victoria | 1892-1894; 1897-1912 |
Gordon E. Corbould, KC | Victoria | 1912-1920 |
Charles Wilson, KC | Vancouver | 1920-1924 |
Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper, KC | Vancouver | 1924-1925 |
John H. Senkler, KC | Vancouver | 1925-1926 |
Albert H. MacNeill, KC | Vancouver | 1926-1934 |
Hon. J.W.deBeque Farris, KC | Vancouver | 1934-1938 |
William E. Burns, KC | Vancouver | 1938-1940 |
William C. Moresby, KC | Victoria | 1940-1942 |
Royal L. Maitland, KC | Vancouver | 1942-1944 |
Charles H. Locke, KC | Vancouver | 1944-1946 |
Arthur D. Crease, KC | Victoria | 1946-1947 |
Clarence McL. O’Brian, KC | Vancouver | 1947-1949 |
Reginald H. Tupper, KC | Vancouver | 1949-1951 |
William H.M. Haldane, QC | Victoria | 1951-1953 |
A. Campbell DesBrisay, QC | Vancouver | 1953-1955 |
Elmore Meredith, QC | County of Vancouver | 1955-1957 |
Thomas G. Norris, QC | County of Vancouver | 1957-1959 |
Arthur J. Cowan, QC | County of Vancouver | 1959-1961 |
Thomas E.H. Ellis, QC | County of Vancouver | 1961-1963; 1964 |
Meredith M. McFarlane, QC | County of Vancouver | 1963-1964 |
Walter S. Owen, QC | County of Vancouver | 1964-1966 |
Leonard St.M. DuMoulin, QC | County of Vancouver | 1966-1967 |
Colin E. McQuarrie, QC | County of Westminster | 1967-1968 |
Arthur M. Harper, QC | County of Vancouver | 1968-1969 |
Charles W. Brazier, QC | County of Vancouver | 1969-1970 |
Edward D. Strongitharm, QC | County of Nanaimo | 1970-1971 |
Charles C. Locke, QC | County of Vancouver | 1971-1972 |
A. Brian B. Carrothers, QC | County of Vancouver | 1972-1973 |
Darrell T.B. Braidwood, QC | County of Vancouver | 1973-1974 |
Peter J. Millward, QC | County of Yale | 1974-1975 |
Hugh P. Legg, QC | County of Vancouver | 1975-1976 |
Thomas K. Fisher, QC | County of Westminster | 1976-1977 |
Mary F. Southin, QC | County of Vancouver | 1977-1978 |
Harry Rankin, QC | County of Vancouver | 1979 |
Raymond G. Herbert, QC | County of Vancouver | 1980 |
Allan L. Cox, QC | County of Victoria | 1981 |
H. Allan Hope, QC | County of Cariboo | 1982 |
George S. Cumming, QC | County of Vancouver | 1983 |
Brian W.F. McLoughlin, QC | County of Vancouver | 1984 |
Jack L.T. Edwards, QC | County of Vancouver | 1985 |
Bruce I. Cohen, QC | County of Vancouver | 1986 |
David W.H. Tupper, QC | County of Vancouver | 1987 |
Dennis J. Mitchell, QC | County of Cariboo | 1988 |
R. Paul Beckmann, QC | County of Vancouver | 1989 |
Robert H. Guile, QC | County of Vancouver | 1990 |
Robert M. Dick, QC | County of Cariboo | 1991 |
Peter Leask, QC | County of Vancouver | 1992 |
Brian J. Wallace, QC | County of Vancouver | 1993 |
Robert T.C. Johnston, QC | County of Victoria | 1994 |
Grant D. Burnyeat, QC | County of Vancouver | 1995 |
Karen F. Nordlinger, QC | County of Vancouver | 1996 |
Benjamin B. Trevino, QC | County of Vancouver | 1997 |
Trudi L. Brown, QC | County of Victoria | 1998 |
Warren T. Wilson, QC | County of Vancouver | 1999 |
Karl F. Warner, QC | County of Westminster | 2000 |
Richard S. Margetts, QC | County of Victoria | 2001 |
Richard C. Gibbs, QC | County of Cariboo | 2002 |
Howard R. Berge, QC | Okanagan District | 2003 |
William M. Everett, QC | County of Vancouver | 2003-2004 |
Ralston S. Alexander, QC | County of Victoria | 2005 |
Robert W. McDiarmid, QC | Kamloops District | 2006 |
Anna K. Fung, QC | County of Vancouver | 2007 |
John J.L. Hunter, QC | County of Vancouver | 2008 |
Gordon Turriff, QC | County of Vancouver | 2009 |
Glen Ridgway, QC | County of Nanaimo | 2010 |
Gavin Hume, QC | County of Vancouver | 2011 |
Bruce LeRose, QC | County of Kootenay | 2012 |
Art Vertlieb, QC | County of Vancouver | 2013 |
Jan Lindsay, QC | County of Westminster | 2014 |
Kenneth M. Walker, QC | Kamloops District | 2015 |
E. David Crossin, QC | County of Vancouver | 2016 |
Herman Van Ommen, QC | County of Vancouver | 2017 |
Miriam Kresivo, QC | County of Vancouver | 2018 |
Nancy G. Merrill, QC | County of Nanaimo | 2019 |
Craig A.B. Ferris, QC | County of Vancouver | 2020 |
Dean P.J. Lawton, QC | County of Victoria | 2021 |
Lisa Hamilton, KC | County of Vancouver | 2022 |
Christopher A. McPherson, KC | County of Westminster | 2023 |
Jeevyn Dhaliwal, KC | County of Vancouver | 2024 |
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