Lorne Otis Clarke, OC ONS (November 22, 1928 – May 21, 2016) was a Canadian lawyer and Chief Justice of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court.
[1][2] Born in Malagash, Nova Scotia, in 1928,[3] he graduated from Dalhousie University with a B.A.
In 1981, he was made a Judge of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, Trial Division.
On August 22, 1985, he became the twentieth Chief Justice since the founding of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court in 1754.
[5] He married Mary Louise MacLeod on August 22, 1959, at St.Andrews Presbyterian Church in Pictou, NS.