Mahmud Jamal was born on July 20, 1967 and is a Canadian jurist serving as a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada since 2021. He worked as a partner at Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt and taught law at McGill University and Osgoode Hall Law School before his appointment to the Court of Appeal for Ontario in 2019. He was nominated to the Supreme Court on June 17, 2021, taking office on July 1 to succeed Rosalie Abella. Jamal was born in Kenya to a family of Indian origin, making him the first person from a visible minority group to serve as a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
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After his undergraduate education, Jamal attended the McGill University Faculty of Law, graduating with a bachelor of laws (LL.B.) and bachelor of civil law (B.C.L.) in 1993.
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Mahmud Jamal (born July 20, 1967) is a Canadian jurist serving as a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada since 2021.
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Mahmud Jamal was born on July 20, 1967 in Nairobi, Kenya, to an Isma'ili family which had originally immigrated in the 19th century from Gujarat, British India, to East Africa during a railway construction boom.
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