Table of contents
- Council
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Members
- AOE - Members - Rosella Bjornson
- AOE - Members - Gary W. Bowie Ph.D., LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Wayne Chiu CM, ICD.D
- AOE - Members - Anne Fanning Binder CM, MD, FRCPC
- AOE - Members - Barry Bultz PhD
- AOE - Members - k.d. lang OC
- AOE - Members - David Bissett LLB, CFA, BBA (Hon), LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - David Manz PhD, P.Eng
- AOE - Members - J. Stephens Allan FCA, ICD.D
- AOE - Members - Linda Hughes LLD (Hon), D.Litt (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Jack C. Donald BBA (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Marie L. Gordon K.C.
- AOE - Members - Sheldon Kennedy OC, OM, LLD
- AOE - Members - Solomon J. Rolingher QC, JD
- AOE - Members – Sharon Dawn Carry MCS, B.App.Sc. (Hon), BBA (Hon), B.Ed.
- AOE - Members - Allan Wachowich QC, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Dennis M. Erker MSM, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Douglas Eaglesham CD
- AOE - Members - Leroy Little Bear JD, DAS (Hon), LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Rev. James L. Holland OMI
- AOE - Members - Tony Cashman CD
- AOE - Members - F. Morris Flewwelling CM, BA (Hon), B.Ed.
- AOE - Members - Fil Fraser CM, DLitt (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Michael Massey B.Mus, Dip.V.
- AOE - Members - Ralph Young MSM, P.Eng., LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Robert Hironaka PhD, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Roger Gibbins PhD, FRSC LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Steve E. Hrudey D.Sc., FRSC, FCAE, FSRA, FEC, FGC (Hon), P.Eng, D.Sc (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Colin Glassco MBA
- AOE - Members - Douglas O. Goss QC
- AOE - Members - Patricia Blocksom K.C.
- AOE - Members - Paulette Patterson
- AOE - Members - R.C. (Reg) Basken
- AOE - Members - Roger C. Jackson OC, PhD, D.Sc. (Hon), LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Stan G.P. Grad Eng, B.Sc. (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Vivian Manasc AAA, MBA, FRAIC
- AOE - Members - David P. Werklund LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Dr. Philip John Currie PhD, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - George W. Govier OC ScD PEng FCIM LLD (Hon) ScD (Hon) D.Eng (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Irving Kipnes B.Sc. LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Jacob H. Masliyah OC, PhD, FRSC, FCAE, FCIC, P.Eng., NAE, DSc. (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Julia Hamilton B.Ed., BA
- AOE - Members - Martin Cohos B.Arch., LLD (Hon), P.Eng. (Applied, Hon), FRAIC
- AOE - Members - Shirley Penner M.Mus, ARCT
- AOE - Members - Bill Yuill LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Bruce W. Hogle CM
- AOE - Members - Frits Pannekoek PhD, D.Litt. et Phil. (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Griffin Lloyd PEng, PGeol
- AOE - Members - James A. Marshall
- AOE - Members - Ralph Philip Klein
- AOE - Members - Shirzad Ahmed BA, LLB
- AOE - Members - Wilton Littlechild IPC, CM, FP, QC, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Clare Drake BPE, B.Ed., LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Ernest Preston Manning CC
- AOE - Members - HCol (Ret’d) Frederick P. Mannix OC, CD, LLD (Hon), Bcomm
- AOE - Members - Henry J. Bergen CM, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Hon. A. Anne McLellan PC, OC, LLM, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Janice Eisenhauer BA (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Janice McTighe
- AOE - Members - Walter Paszkowski
- AOE - Members - Catherine M. Roozen BComm LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Dr. Helen Hays CM, MD, FCFP, CCFP
- AOE - Members - Eric Rajah
- AOE - Members - Her Honour, the Honourable Lois Mitchell
- AOE - Members - Louise Annette Miller CM, MBA
- AOE - Members - Lt. General Donald C. Laubman DFC, CD
- AOE - Members - Reinhard Mühlenfeld
- AOE - Members - Ron Southern CC, CBE, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - William H. Bowes
- AOE - Members - Allan P. Markin B.Sc., P.Eng., LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Aritha van Herk MA
- AOE - Members - Dr. Howard V. Gimbel M.D., F.R.C.S.C.
- AOE - Members - Evelyn L. Buckley RN, DD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Robert. C. Westbury CM PhD LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Sister Helen Hengel M Ed.
- AOE - Members - William H. Wilson OMM CStJ CD
- AOE - Members - William J. Mooney B.Sc.
- AOE - Members - Bernadette McDonald BA, BM
- AOE - Members - Chief Victor S. Buffalo
- AOE - Members - Dr. David W. Schindler OC, D.Phil., FRSC, FRS
- AOE - Members - Reza Nasseri P.Eng.
- AOE - Members - Sister Rosaleen Zdunich B.Ed, M. Sc.
- AOE Members - Dr. Norbert R. Morgenstern D.Sc., F.R.S.C.
- AOE - Former chancellor - The Honourable Gordon Towers
- AOE - Members - Daryl K. (Doc) Seaman OC, B.Sc., LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - David W. Leonard Ph.D.
- AOE - Members - Dr. Joseph H. Shoctor O.C., K.C., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - Kenneth Sauer CM, CD, Ed.D, BAPE, BA (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Robert D. Steadward OC, PhD, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Alex Janvier CM, RCA, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Barrie Strafford FRCPSC, KSS, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Dr. Raymond Lemieux O.C., D.Sc., F.R.S
- AOE - Members - Gary William (Wilcox) McPherson CM, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - JR Shaw OC, BA, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - The Honourable Peter Lougheed C.C., P.C., K.C.
- AOE - Members - Douglas H. Mitchell CM, QC, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Dr. Arthur T. Jenkyns C.M.
- AOE - Members - Dr. Maxwell William Ward O.C., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - Harold (Hal) Wyatt CM, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Thomas J. Walsh CM, QC, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Dr. C. Fred Bentley PhD
- AOE - Members - Margaret E. Southern L.V.O., C.M., B.P.E.
- AOE - Members - Patrick R. Nixon CM
- AOE - Members - Dr. James H. Gray CM, LLD
- AOE - Members - The Honourable Ronald Martland C.C., K.C., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - Dr. Alexander Johnston M.Sc., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - The Right Honourable Charles Joseph Clark PC, MP
- AOE - Members - Barbara Poole
- AOE - Members - Dr. Mary Percy Jackson O.C., Ch.B., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - Alvin Gerald Libin OC, LLD
- AOE - Members - Dr. Chester A. Ronning OC, CC
- AOE - Members - Dr. John Carter Callaghan O.C., F.R.C.S.C.
- AOE - Members - Dr. David S. R. Leighton
- AOE - Members - Leonard Kane Haney C.M.
- AOE - Members - M. Ann McCaig B.Ed., LLD
- AOE - Former chancellor - The Honourable Helen Hunley
- AOE - Members - Dr. Walter Hugh Johns O.C.
- AOE - Members - Eric Patrick Newell OC, M.Sc., LLD
- AOE - Members - Herbert Thomas Hargrave
- AOE - Members - Bryan Perkins B.Sc.
- AOE - Members - Dr. Esther Robins C.M., R.N., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - Dr. Winnifred M. Stewart O.C., R.N., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - Senator The Honourable Ernest Charles Manning CC, PC
- AOE - Members - The Honourable Dr. J. W. Grant MacEwan O.C., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - Dr. G. Richard A. Rice C.M., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - John Poole
- AOE - Members - Ron Sakamoto LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Dr. Thomas Benjamin Banks O.C., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - Katie Ohe RCA, MFA (Hon), LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Dr. Robert Bertram Church PhD
- AOE - Members - Dr. William A. Cochrane OC, MD, FRCPC, FACP, DABP, D.Sc. (Hon), LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Malcolm S. Sissons BA
- AOE - Members - Bertha (Berdie) Fowler
- AOE - Members - Muriel Stanley Venne CM, BA (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Robert W. Chapman Sr.
- AOE - Members - Donald F. Mazankowski PC, OC, LLD
- AOE - Members - Dr. Gerald Warren Hankins MD, B.Sc., FRCS, FRCSC
- AOE - Members - Frances E. Wright BA, BJ, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Richard F. Haskayne OC, MD, PhD, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Audrey Attril Morrice LLD
- AOE - Members - Beckie Scott OC, MSM, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Dr. Margaret (Marmie) Perkins Hess OC, BA, DFA (Hon) LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Dr. Steven Kyaw Htut Aung MD, PHD, OMD, FAAFP
- AOE - Members - Harry Hole B.Sc., P.Eng., FCAE, CD, LL.D (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Bonnie D. DuPont M.Ed., F.ICD.D., LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Elsie Kawulych B.Sc., H.Ec.
- AOE - Members - James Deverell Horsman CM, QC, LLD
- AOE - Members - James Kenneth Gray
- AOE - Members - James Simpson Palmer CM, QC, LLB
- AOE - Members - Louis Armand Desrochers CM, QC, LLD
- AOE - Members - Colonel (Retired) Donald Stewart Ethell OMM, MSC, CD
- AOE - Members - Dr. Robert E. Burrell MSC, PhD, FCAHS, FNAI
- AOE - Members - Hon. Samuel Sereth Lieberman CD, QC, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Jenny Belzberg CM
- AOE - Members - John Murrell
- AOE - Members - Leonard Peter Ratzlaff DMA
- AOE - Members - Ronald Neil Mannix B.Sc., H.Ec.
- AOE - Members - Donald Ross Getty OC, HBA
- AOE - Members - Dr. Chester R. Cunningham CM, LLD
- AOE - Members - Dr. Raymond V. Rajotte MSM, PhD, P.Eng., FRCPSC, FRCS
- AOE - Members - Father Charles Michael McCaffery M.Sc.
- AOE - Former chancellor - The Honourable Norman L. Kwong
- AOE - Members - Dr. D. Lorne J. Tyrrell MD, PhD, FRCP
- AOE - Members - Dr. Matthew Warren Spence OC, MD, PhD, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Harley Norman Hotchkiss O.C., B.Sc. P.Geol., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - Stanley George Reynolds CM
- AOE - Former chancellor - The Honourable Lois E. Hole
- AOE - Members - Dr. Shirley M. Stinson MNA, EdD, LLD
- AOE - Members - Ian Malcolm Macdonald
- AOE - Members - Ian Tyson OC, D Litt (Hon), LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - June Louise Lore B.Sc.N.
- AOE - Members - Arthur Ryan Smith
- AOE - Members - Dr. A. Ernest Pallister O.C., B.Sc., P.Geoph., D.Sc. (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Sandy Auld Mactaggart O.C., M.B.A., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - Dr. Donald Russell Stanley S.D., P.Eng., D.Sc. (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Dr. John Snow LL.D., R.C.A., A.S.A.
- AOE - Members - Dr. Stanley A. Milner B.Sc., LL.D.
- AOE - Former chancellor - The Honourable H.A. "Bud" Olson
- AOE - Members - Dr. Francis G. Winspear O.C., F.C.A., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - Dr. Helen Isabel Huston O.C., M.D., LL.D.
- AOE - Former chancellor - The Honourable Frank Lynch-Staunton
- Abbreviations and post nominals
- AOE - Members - Salma Lakhani
- AOE - Members - Ed Stelmach
- AOE - Members - Lena Russell
- AOE - Members - Cam Tait
- AOE - Members - Cor Van Raay
- AOE - Members - Holger Petersen
- AOE - Members - Art Froehlich
- AOE - Members - Greg Powell
- AOE - Members - John Mah
- AOE - Members - Cheryl Foggo
- AOE - Members - Frances Harley
- AOE - Members - Merle Olson
- AOE - Members - Barb Olson
- AOE - Members - Charlie Fischer
- AOE - Members - Eleanor Chiu
- AOE - Members - Elizabeth Cannon
- AOE - Members - Jim Boucher
- AOE - Members - Murray McCann
- AOE - Members - Cyril Kay
- AOE - Members - JudyLynn Archer
- AOE - Members - Robert Brawn
- AOE - Members - Joan Donald
- AOE - Members - Maureen Bianchini Purvis
- History and investiture ceremony
- Nominate an Albertan
Lois Mitchell is an accomplished businesswoman and a proud, longstanding member of Alberta’s dedicated corps of community volunteers. She began her duties as the 18th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta on June 12, 2015 and served until August 26, 2020. She made history education a focus during her tenure as Lieutenant Governor and is Founding Patron of the History and Heroes Foundation.
Lois Mitchell (née Boulding) was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. A passion for sport in general, and for team sports in particular, led her to studies in Physical Education at the University of British Columbia and a position teaching Grade 6 Phys Ed and English in Vancouver.
In 1960, Lois met Calgarian Doug Mitchell who was studying law at UBC and playing with the B.C. Lions Football Club. The couple were married in 1961. A year later, the Mitchells moved to Calgary where Doug began articling with a local firm. It was a natural move for Lois whose Alberta connections reach back to her grandfather, Tom Mackie, a Calgary Chief of Police in the early days of the province. The Mitchells settled in the city to build their careers and raise their four children.
In 1970, an opportunity emerged for Lois to use her natural skills as an entrepreneur. After observing a lack of team apparel available to fellow football fans, she began a business that grew over the decade to become a successful merchandising and sports marketing firm. Lois then created Amherst Consultants, a corporate training firm which allowed her to merge her teaching background with her business and communications strengths. She continued the business in Toronto for five years while Doug took on duties as the Commissioner of the Canadian Football League before returning to Alberta in 1990. In 2007, Lois became a founding partner of Rainmaker Global Business Development, a Calgary-firm dedicated to connecting companies with business opportunities around the world.
Lois Mitchell has maintained a firm commitment to community service and volunteerism throughout her life. Her belief in the value of amateur sport, to both individuals and the community as a whole, prompted volunteer service as a Director of the Hockey Canada Foundation, Ambassador and Governor of the Canadian Women’s Hockey League, Co-Chair of the Gold-Medal Plates dinner in support of aspiring Olympians and was the Chair for the inaugural World Women’s Under-18 Hockey Championships. She has long been a proud patron of the Special Olympics Canada Foundation. The Mitchells have extended generous patronage over the years to a variety of programs and scholarships to support Canada’s athletes and to foster opportunities for women in amateur sport.
Lois Mitchell has shared her business acumen on the boards of UBS Bank (Canada) and Mitacs, an organization that promotes scientific and business innovation among emerging leaders. She is past Chair of the Calgary Chamber of Commerce and Vice-Chair of the Global Business Forum. Her commitment to regional and national endeavours includes a 12-year tenure as Honourary Consul of Colombia for Alberta and Saskatchewan, contributions as a Governor of the Canadian Unity Council and duties as Co-Chair of the 2014 True Patriot Love dinner to support Canada’s men and women in uniform. Her interest in education led to volunteer service on the board of Canada World Youth and as Chair of the Advisory Board of the Latin American Research Centre at the University of Calgary. Her great love of music and the arts can be seen in past volunteer duties as Chair of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, board member of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the National Youth Orchestra, the American Symphony Orchestra League Council and Co-Chair of Calgary 2012 as a Cultural Capital.
In 2016, The Canada Institute presented the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service to the Mitchells as a team. In 2015, Lois received Honourary Doctor of Laws degrees from the Universities of Alberta and Calgary. That same year she became a Dame of Justice of the Order of St. John. In 2012 she was named a Member of the Order of Canada and received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. She was named Calgary Citizen of the Year for 2008 and received the Alberta Centennial Medal in 2005 In 1998 she received the Calgary Women of Distinction Award in the category of Arts and Culture.