The Honourable Harry S. LaForme serves as senior counsel at Olthuis Kleer Townshend LLP and is an Anishinabe of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation in Ontario. Starting his legal career at Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt, Judge LaForme progressed from an articling student to an associate before establishing a private practice in Indigenous law, focusing on Constitutional and Charter issues. He has presented cases at all levels of the Canadian Court and represented Canadian Indigenous interests globally, including in Geneva, Switzerland, New Zealand, and the British Parliament. In January 1994, he became one of three Indigenous judges appointed to the Superior Court of Justice, Ontario. In November 2004, he achieved another milestone as the first Indigenous judge appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeal. After retiring from the judiciary in October 2018, he assumed the role of senior counsel with OKT in December 2018. Judge LaForme graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1977 and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1979.
