Catherine Latimer OC (born in Ottawa) is a Canadian lawyer, criminologist and expert witness. She has served as the executive director of the John Howard Society of Canada since 2011. She earned a BA at the University of Waterloo in 1975, a Masters in Criminology from Cambridge University and a Juris Doctor from Queen's University at Kingston in 1978. She was invested with the Order of Canada in 2018. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]