{{Short description|Canadian judge (1930–2020)}} '''Daniel Merlin Nunn''' (1930 – May 21, 2020) was a Canadian judge and government official. He was chief justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia from 1982 to 2005 and Nova Scotia's conflict of interest commissioner.<ref name="cbc2020-05-22">{{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/former-conflict-of-interest-commissioner-merlin-nunn-died-1.5580100 |url-access= |title=Merlin Nunn, former N.S. Supreme Court chief justice, dies at 89 |date=May 22, 2020 |language=en |access-date=May 22, 2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200522232537/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/former-conflict-of-interest-commissioner-merlin-nunn-died-1.5580100 |archive-date=May 22, 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/news/local/formidable-21-year-nova-scotia-conflict-of-interest-commissioner-merlin-nunn-has-gently-passed-away-453007/|title='Formidable' 21-year Nova Scotia Conflict of Interest Commissioner Merlin Nunn 'has gently passed away' |newspaper=The Chronicle Herald |date=May 22, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.capebretonpost.com/news/local/from-whitney-pier-to-harvard-former-supreme-court-justice-dies-453073/|title=From Whitney Pier to Harvard: former Supreme Court justice dies |newspaper= Cape Breton Post |date=May 22, 2020}}</ref>
Nunn was born in 1930 and graduated from St. Francis Xavier University and Dalhousie University.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IRUrvVk6wnsC&q=Merlin+Nunn+1930 |title = The Canadian Law List|year = 1981}}</ref> He earned a graduate degree in law from Harvard University.<ref name="cbc2020-05-22" />
He was the commissioner of the Nunn Commission on the youth criminal justice system in Nova Scotia.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/mcevoy-inquiry-to-release-findings-1.620417|title= McEvoy inquiry to release findings |date= December 5, 2006 |publisher=CBC News}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://novascotia.ca/just/nunn_commission/_docs/Report_Nunn_Final.pdf| title= Spiralling out of control: lessons learned from a boy in trouble: report of the Nunn Commission of Inquiry |author=The Honourable D. Merlin Nunn, Retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, Commissioner |date=December 2006 | publisher= Unknown Publisher | isbn=1-55457-085-9}}</ref>
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