Raynell Andreychuk

Summary

Anita Raynell Andreychuk (born August 14, 1944) is a Canadian retired Senator, lawyer, and former judge and diplomat.

Raynell Andreychuk
Raynell Andreychuk in Ottawa in 2018
Andreychuk in 2018
Canadian Senator
from Saskatchewan
In office
March 11, 1993 – August 14, 2019
Nominated byBrian Mulroney
Appointed byRay Hnatyshyn
Succeeded byBrent Cotter
Personal details
Born
Anita Raynell Andreychuk

(1944-08-14) August 14, 1944 (age 79)
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Political partyConservative
Other political
affiliations
Progressive Conservative (until 2004)
ProfessionLawyer

Career edit

A native of Saskatoon, Andreychuk graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a BA in 1966 and a law degree in 1967, after which she began her legal practice in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.[citation needed] In 1976, she was appointed a judge of the Saskatchewan provincial court after having initiated Regina's first family court. She also served from 1977 to 1983 as chancellor of the University of Regina and was chair of the Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, a policy research institute created in 2000 by the University of Regina, the University of Saskatchewan and the First Nations University of Canada.[citation needed]

In 1985, Andreychuk was appointed associate deputy minister of social services in the province.[citation needed] Two years later, she was named Canada's High Commissioner to Kenya and Uganda and ambassador to Somalia and the Comoros before becoming ambassador to Portugal in 1990.[citation needed] She was also named, the same year, as Canada's permanent representative to the United Nations Environmental Programme and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme. From 1988 to 1993, she was Canada's permanent representative to the United Nations Human Rights Commission.[citation needed]

In 1993, she was named to the Senate by Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn on the advice of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Andreychuk sat as a Progressive Conservative until 2004 when she joined the Conservative Party of Canada.

She has also been active in the Upper House urging recognition of the Ukrainian famine of 1932 to 1933 as a genocide. In May 2008, she was awarded the Order of Yaroslav the Wise for her substantial contribution in the development of Ukrainian-Canadian relations.[citation needed]

Andreychuk was one of thirteen Canadians banned from traveling to Russia under retaliatory sanctions imposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in March 2014.[1]

Having been appointed in 1993, she was, following the retirement of Anne Cools on August 12, 2018, the longest-serving member of the Senate until her own retirement on August 14, 2019.[2]

Senate Committees edit

Chair edit

Vice-Chair edit

Publications edit

  • The work of the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights: an overview of Children: The Silenced Citizens. Saskatchewan Law Review. 71:23-38 no.1 2008.
  • Democracy in the 21st century: Children: the silenced citizens. Canadian Parliamentary Review. 30 (2):2-3 Summer 2007
  • Human rights and Canadian foreign policy. University of New Brunswick Law Journal. 45:311-17 1996 (Annual).

References edit

  1. ^ Susana Mas (24 March 2013). "Russian sanctions against Canadians a 'badge of honour'". CBC News. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
  2. ^ Sheena Goodyear (13 August 2018). "Anne Cools — Canada's 1st black and longest-serving senator — bids the red chamber goodbye". CBC News. Retrieved 13 August 2018.

External links edit

  • Raynell Andreychuk – Parliament of Canada biography
  • Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada Complete List of Posts
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
David Miles Miller
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Comoros Islands
1987-1990
Succeeded by
Lawrence Austin Hayne Smith
Preceded by
David Miles Miller
High Commissioner to Kenya
1987-1990
Succeeded by
Lawrence Austin Hayne Smith
Preceded by
David Miles Miller
High Commissioner to Uganda
1987-1990
Succeeded by
Lawrence Austin Hayne Smith
Preceded by
David Miles Miller
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Somalia
1987-1990
Succeeded by
Lawrence Austin Hayne Smith
Preceded by
Patricia M. Marsden-Dole
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Portugal
1990-
Succeeded by
George Loranger Magann