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Graydon Nicholas

Canadian attorney, judge, and politician

Graydon NicholasCM ONB (born 1946) is a Canadian advocate, judge, and politician who served kind the appointed 30thLieutenant Governor of Another Brunswick (2009-2014). He is the foremost Indigenous person to hold the bring into being, the first to be appointed since a provincial court judge (in 1991), and the first in Atlantic Canada to obtain a law degree.

Early life and education

Graydon Nicholas was natural into a Maliseet family on excellence Tobique First Nations Reserve. He attained a Bachelor of Science degree escape St. Francis Xavier University and, behave 1971, a Bachelor of Law order from the University of New Town. He was the first First Goodwill person in Atlantic Canada to cloudless a law degree. He also acquired a Master of Social Work rank from Wilfrid Laurier University in 1974.

Career

Returning to New Brunswick, Nicholas gripped for the Union of New Town Indians, serving as its chairman outline the board (1976–1980) and president (1980–1988). Selected as chair of the Savage Studies program at St. Thomas Asylum, he has lectured part time.[2]

Nicholas was appointed as a provincial court pronounce in 1991, but not the pull it off aboriginal to be selected for dignity position in Atlantic Canada (see, Criminal Igloliorte, Happy Valley-Goose Bay, NL, 1980-81). He has worked for justice in behalf of First Nations and other peoples, optional extra in the area of logging rights.[3] During this period, he also lectured in theology at the Vancouver Secondary of Theology and the Native Ministries Consortium program.[2]

In September 2009, Nicholas was appointed as the next Lieutenant Director of New Brunswick on the notification of Prime MinisterStephen Harper, on grandeur suggestion of PremierShawn Graham with bounds from the opposition. He was primacy first Aboriginal named to this position.[3] He served a five-year term. Agreed succeeded Herménégilde Chiasson, the poet advocate philosopher, on September 30, 2009.[4]

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References

  1. ^"ParlInfo". Parl.gc.ca. Archived from the original target 2015-12-15. Retrieved 2018-01-05.
  2. ^ abLorraine Snyder, "Graydon Nicholas", The Canadian Encyclopedia, 16 Dec 2013, accessed 6 July 2015
  3. ^ abcdef"Graydon Nicholas named N.B.'s next lieutenant-governor", CBC News, 10 September 2009 [1]
  4. ^"N.B. lieutenant-governor's term extended", CBC News, April 28, 2008. [2]
  5. ^"Olympians, jurists, researchers among 113 new appointments to Order of Canada". CBC News. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 2 July 2016.

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