The Honourable Alexandra Hoy is the former Associate Chief Justice of Ontario from 2013 to 2020. Before her appointment to the bench, she was a corporate lawyer in Toronto for 22 years. In January of 2002, she was appointed a judge of the Superior Court of Justice, sitting in Toronto. She was elevated to the Court of Appeal for Ontario on June 6, 2011, and appointed Associate Chief Justice of Ontario on June 6, 2013. She served as Associate Chief Justice of Ontario for seven years and retired from the Court of Appeal on October 1, 2023.
The Honourable Alexandra Hoy is a graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School and the recipient of a ...more Lifetime Achievement Award from Osgoode.
Her legal career began at Lang Michener (now McMillan LLP), where she was first an associate and then a partner. She represented both public and private corporations on a wide range of significant corporate and commercial transactions. Clients included corporations and other entities in the media, communications, telecommunications, retail and insurance sectors. At the time of her appointment to the bench, she chaired the firm’s Business Law Group. Before her appointment to the bench, she served as a director of several private corporations.
While on the Superior Court, she was known to the business bar for her work on the Commercial List. Additionally, she presided in all other areas of the court’s operations, including managing, deciding and administering class action proceedings.
As a member of the Court of Appeal, Ms. Hoy sat on cases covering a wide range of commercial, civil, constitutional, administrative and criminal matters. There, as at the Superior Court, she heard matters in both French and English. While Associate Chief Justice, she chaired the Civil Rules Committee and was an active member of the Canadian Judicial Council, the national council of the judiciary of Canada charged with overseeing the country’s federally appointed judges.
