William Stevenson

William Alexander Stevenson (May 7, 1934 – July 7, 2021) was a Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1990 to 1992. Early life William Alexander Stevenson was born in Edmonton, Alberta on May 7, 1934, to Alexander Lindsay Stevenson and Eileen Harriet Burns. In 1956, he graduated from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Arts, and then a Bachelor of Laws in 1957. While at university, he helped found the Alberta Law Review and served as its first Editor in Chief. Upon graduation, he received the Horace Harvey Gold Medal in Law. Legal career He worked at the firm of Morrow, Morrow & Reynolds (subsequently Morrow, Reynolds and Stevenson, now Reynolds, Mirth, Richards & Farmer LLP) in Edmonton until 1968. Stevenson worked as counsel on Ponoka-Calmar Oils v Wakefield, the last Canadian ruling rendered by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. In 1963, he became a teacher at the University of Alberta, serving as a full-time professor from 1968 until 1970 when he returned to his firm. In 1975, he was the first Chairman of the Legal Education Society of Alberta.