Patrick Dohm

Patrick Dohm (born 1935) was the Associate Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia for 15 years.

Dohm was born and raised in Kamloops, and obtained his Bachelor of Laws from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

He was called to the bar in 1962 and practised law in Kamloops for 10 years with prominent lawyer E. Davie Fulton.

He was appointed Associate Chief Justice, the second highest position in that court, by the Prime Minister of Canada in 1995.

[citation needed] As one of the longest-serving judges, he was regarded by some as BC's most prominent jurist and was well known for granting bail to the accused.