James C. MacPherson is a justice of the Court of Appeal for Ontario.
Born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, he graduated from Acadia University with a Bachelor of Arts degree and then graduated from Dalhousie Law School in 1974 with a Bachelor of Laws.
In 1981, he became Director of the Constitutional Law Branch of the Department of Attorney General of Saskatchewan.
From 1985 to 1988, he was Executive Legal Officer to the Supreme Court of Canada.
In 1988, he was appointed Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School.