The Queen’s Law Alumni in Alberta Council was launched in January 2013 to create support for the Faculty of Law from the Queen’s Law Alumni currently residing in Alberta. To view Alberta Council Alumni click here.
Jennifer Addison
Jennifer Addison is Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary of EPCOR Utilities Inc. and oversees the delivery of all Canadian legal services for EPCOR, as well as compliance, ethics and privacy functions. She is also responsible for information services, physical security and emergency management, and corporate procurement. As Corporate Secretary, Jennifer works closely with EPCOR's Board of Directors.
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Brianna Guenther
Brianna Guenther is Senior Legal Counsel at SemCAMS Midstream ULC (a subsidiary of Energy Transfer NYSE:ET and U.S. private equity firm KKR). SemCAMS Midstream is a gathering and processing business and one of Alberta’s largest licensed gas processors. It owns and operates six gas processing plants located in the heart of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin with combined licensed capacity of approximately 2 billion cubic feet per day.
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Imran S. Hussainaly
Vice-Chair
Imran S. Hussainaly serves as Senior Legal Counsel for Oilers Entertainment Group (OEG).
OEG owns the 5-time Stanley Cup Champion Edmonton Oilers, Edmonton Oil Kings and Bakersfield Condors and operates Rogers Place, North America’s premier and most technologically advanced sports and entertainment venue.
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Peter Johnson
Co-Chair
Peter Johnson is the Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Regulatory Officer for Shaw Communications Inc., and is responsible for Shaw’s Legal group, corporate governance, regulatory and government relations.
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Barbara B. Johnston
Barbara Johnston is the National Co-Chair of Dentons Canada Labour and Employment Group and a partner in the Calgary office. Her practice focuses on management side labour, employment, human rights, constitutional and privacy law. Ms. Johnston has appeared before all levels of courts and administrative tribunals, including the Supreme Court of Canada, the Court of Appeal of Alberta, the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta, the Alberta Labour Relations Board, Human Rights Panels, Boards of Arbitration and Federal Labour Adjudicators. Ms.
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Jean-Ann Naysmith Rooney
Co-Chair
Jean-Ann is a member of the Queen’s Law 1984 class. She was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, where she lived until the age of five. She then moved with her family to Ottawa where she grew up skiing, playing school sports and playing in a band. After high school, she attended Queen’s University and obtained a bachelor’s degree in English and Politics and then a Law degree. She had the privilege of playing on the varsity squash team for Queen’s, belonged to the Queen’s bands and was a don in the girls’ residences for the 3 years of law school.
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Alicia Quesnel
Alicia K Quesnel (BA 1987, MA 1989, LLB (Queen's) 1993 and LLM 1994) is Managing Director of Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP (BDP) in Calgary, Alberta. As Partner, she practiced in the energy/commercial transactions and competition law groups.
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Andrew J. Trevoy
Andrew (“Andy”) Trevoy is an associate with Ogilvie LLP in Edmonton where he practices Small Business Corporate Commercial Law and Not-for Profit and Charities Law. Three years ago he merged his business law firm, Trevoy LLP into the Ogilvie practice. Andy is also a partner in an Edmonton based private equity firm investing in and providing director level leadership to several Alberta-based private business organizations. He does some Human Resources consulting, and is the co-founder and part owner of a business resourcing U.S. based small business trade mark owners.
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Blair C. Yorke-Slader, QC
Blair is Vice-Chairman of Bennett Jones LLP and a partner in the Calgary office. A Fellow of both the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, he is a leading Alberta practitioner in high-stakes corporate and commercial litigation with an active trial and appellate business and energy litigation and arbitration practice.
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