James Edward Lockyer ONB CD KC (born May 27, 1949) is a Canadian lawyer, law professor, and former politician.
From 2007 until 2017 Lockyer taught trial advocacy to lawyers at Osgoode Hall Law School's annual Intensive Trial Advocacy Workshop and since 2007 continues to teach members of the Quebec Bar in its program "Techniques de plaidoirie" at the Université de Sherbrooke.
From 2007 until 2019 he was a visiting teacher of trial advocacy to students at the University of Notre Dame Law School in South Bend Indiana.
He has conducted trial advocacy programs for the Alberta Public Prosecutors Association, the Quebec Department of Justice and law firms and in 2024 will present a seven-day workshop for lawyers at the University of New Brunswick.
He is a past president of the Sopinka Cup National Trial Advocacy Competition involving Canadian law schools and was a member of the organizing committee from 2001 until 2022.
From 2001 to 2023, he organized and conducted the annual McKelvey Cup Trial Advocacy Competition for Atlantic region law schools.
Following his party taking power, on October 27, 1987 Lockyer was appointed Attorney General and Minister of Justice, posts he would hold twice.
In the 1999 New Brunswick general election James Lockyer lost by 1,253 votes to the Progressive Conservative Party's candidate.
He served for many years as vice-president of the Dr. George L. Dumont Hospital's Tree of Hope Cancer fundraising campaign.
Lockyer co-chaired the YWCA "Transitionelle" Campaign raising funds for the establishment of the "Jean Irving Centre for Women and Children" in Moncton.
He is a former member of the Board of Directors of Hope Air, a national charity that arranges free non-emergency medical flights for low-income Canadians who must travel far from home to access healthcare.