Malcolm H. Rowe (born June 27, 1953) is a Canadian lawyer who is serving as a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada since 2016.
Rowe was born on June 27, 1953 in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, to parents who grew up in the province's small fishing communities.
[4] He also started his own private practice in Ottawa that focused on Canadian constitutional law, foreign affairs, and arbitration over maritime boundaries.
[5] Rowe was nominated by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in October 2016 to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada, succeeding Justice Thomas Cromwell who retired that September.
[3] Rowe's appointment was the result of a process newly instituted by Trudeau in which any jurist in Canada was invited to apply to a seven-member committee headed by former Progressive Conservative Prime Minister Kim Campbell.