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Hon. Nathan Green, QC and chief judge of the Nova Scotia Provincial Court, was born in 1913 at Glace Bay, N.S., the son of Morris and Annie (Diamond) Green. Green attended Dalhousie University and graduated with a BA in 1934 and LL.B. in 1936. He practiced law in Halifax as a sole practiioner from 1936-1954 and was associated with his brother Allan, who took over the practice upon his appointment to the bench. Green was appointed a provincial magistrate for Halifax County in 1959 and first chief judge of the Provincial Court in 1981. He also served the province in the field of labour relations, as conciliator, mediator, arbitrator and industrial inquiry commissioner. In 1974, and again in 1981, he served as a one-man commission of inquiry into the Police Act and police regulations for Nova Scotia. At the time of his death he was chairman of the provincial Royal Commission on Forestry. A recipient of the Centennial Medal in 1967, Green was also part-time lecturer at Dalhousie Law School and active in numerous professional, charitable, civic, and community organizations including the Canadian Jewish Congress and Dalhousie University board of governors. He died in 1982.