David Lynch Scott (21 August 1845 – 26 July 1924) was a Canadian militia officer, lawyer, and judge.

He studied law at Osgoode Hall, was called to the Ontario bar in 1870 and practised in Brampton and Orangeville.

[2] Scott first rose to prominence as a lawyer when he acted as the junior counsel for the crown in the prosecutions of Louis Riel, Big Bear, Poundmaker and those involved in the Frog Lake Massacre following the North-West Rebellion of 1885.

Scott became a justice of the newly formed Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories in 1894, seated in Calgary, Alberta.

[3] The feud was resolved in Scott's favour by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Reference re Chief Justice of Alberta.