Head and shoulders image of Barry L. Strayer, Deputy Judge of the Federal Court of Canada.

Bio/Historical Note: Barry Lee Strayer was born in 1932 in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Strayer graduated in Law at the University of Saskatchewan in 1959. He worked at the Department of Justice in Saskatchewan until 1963 at which point he began teaching at the University of Saskatchewan. He eventually became the Director of the Constitutional Law Division of the Privy Council Office. In 1974 he was appointed Assistant Deputy Minister of Justice where he spent several years working on first drafts of the Charter. Strayer served as a Justice of the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal and later as a Deputy Judge of the Federal Court of Canada. He is known as one of the instrumental drafters of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In 2008 Strayer was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.