Governance
Innocence Canada is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1993 and incorporated in 2000.
Innocence Canada’s mandate is to identify, advocate for and exonerate individuals who have been convicted of a crime they did not commit and to prevent wrongful convictions through legal education and reform.
The Innocence Canada and the Innocence Canada Foundation Boards are regulated by a set of By-Laws
Innocence Canada By-Laws
Innocence Canada Foundation By-Laws
Board of directors
Innocence Canada and Innocence Canada Foundation are each governed by a unique volunteer Board of Directors, alongside the Case Review Committee which is responsible for assessing wrongful conviction applications
Ron Dalton
Innocence Canada Co-President and Treasurer, Exoneree & Accountant
Jonathan Freedman
Innocence Canada Co-President, Forensic Psychology Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto
Jerome Kennedy, K.C.
Criminal Defence Lawyer at Roebothan McKay Marshall
James Lockyer
Criminal Defence Lawyer, Partner at Lockyer, Zaduk Zeeh, Member of the Order of Canada and founding director of Innocence Canada
Joanne McLean
Criminal Defence Lawyer
Debbie Oakley
Chair of the Provincial Judges Pension Board, University of Toronto Business Board, former Innocence Canada and Innocence Canada Foundation Executive Director
Bhavan Sodhi
Chief Program Officer at the Innocence Project (New York), former Innocence Canada Legal Director
Maria Shepherd
Founder and Senior Paralegal at Shepherd Advocacy & Litigation, and Exoneree
Tamara Duncan
Criminal Defence Lawyer at Martin and Associates
Jane McMillan
Professor, St. Francis Xavier University & Former Canada Research Chair of Indigenous Peoples and Sustainable Communities
Sean MacDonald
Civil & Criminal Defence Lawyer
Paul Bennett
Barrister
Dan Brodsky
Board Member Emeritus, Criminal Defence Lawyer
Jonathan Freedman
Innocence Canada Foundation Co-President, Forensic Psychology Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto
Debbie Oakley
Innocence Canada Foundation Co-President, Chair of the Provincial Judges Pension Board, University of Toronto Business Board, former Innocence Canada and Innocence Canada Foundation Executive Director
Brian Greenspan
Innocence Canada Foundation Treasurer and member of the Innocence Canada Finance Committee, Criminal Defence lawyer, Partner at Greenspan Humphrey Makepeace
Stephen Goudge, K.C.
Former Justice of the Court for Appeal for Ontario; Head of The Inquiry into Pediatric Forensic Pathology in Ontario
Robert Lapper, K.C
Former CEO of Law Society of Ontario, Lam Chair in Law and Public Policy, MPA program lead at the University of Victoria
Beverley McLachlin, P.C., C.C., CStJ, FCIArb
Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, and Companion of the Order of Canada
Dennis O’Connor, O.C. K.C.
Former Associate Chief Justice of Ontario, Officer of the Order of Canada, Member of the Order of Ontario, and Lawyer at Borden Ladner Gervais
Seymour Epstein
Business Executive
Patrick LeSage, K.C.
Former Chief Justice of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Head of The Inquiry into Trial and Conviction of James Driskell, Honorary Life Member of Innocence Canada Foundation
Jerome Kennedy, K.C.
Chair of the Case Review Committee, Innocence Canada Board Director, and Criminal Defence Lawyer at Roebothan McKay Marshall
Joanne McLean
Innocence Canada Board Director, Criminal Defence Lawyer
James Lockyer, C.M.
Innocence Canada Board Director, Criminal Defence Lawyer, Partner at Lockyer, Zaduk Zeeh, Member of the Order of Canada and founding director of Innocence Canada
Tamara Duncan
Innocence Canada Board Director, Criminal Defence Lawyer at Martin and Associates
Bhavan Sodhi
Innocence Canada Board Director, Chief Program Officer at the Innocence Project
Sean MacDonald
Innocence Canada Board Director, Civil & Criminal Defence Lawyer
Daniel Brown
Criminal Defence Lawyer at Daniel Brown Law
Erin Dann
Criminal Defence Lawyer at Embry Dann
Melvyn Green
Retired Judge of the Ontario Court of Justice
Nader Hasan
Criminal and Constitutional Lawyer
Scott Hutchison
Criminal Defence Lawyer at Henein Hutchison Robitaille LLP
Mark Sandler
Criminal Defence Lawyer
Anne Tucker
Retired Superior Court of Ontario Justice