Elizabeth Sanderson
Public-Servant-In Residence
538-540 King Edward St., Room 213
Ottawa,
Ontario
Canada
K1N 6N5
Elizabeth.Sanderson@uOttawa.ca
(613) 562-5800 ext. 7906
(613) 562-5124
Since February, 2010, Elizabeth Sanderson has been a visiting professor from the Department of Justice under the auspices of the Public Servant-in-residence program of the Canada School of the Public Service. Until the end of 2009, Professor Sanderson was the Assistant Deputy Attorney General, and previously Deputy “ADAG”, of the Aboriginal Affairs Portfolio. From 1997 to 2002, she was Senior General Counsel responsible for the Minister of Justice’s Public Law policy agenda, including judicial affairs, private international law and reform of the access to information and privacy legislation and Canadian Human Rights Act, amongst others. She has held a variety of positions in the Department after articling there in 1979-‘80. She was called to the Ontario Bar in 1981. She holds an LLB from the University of Ottawa, Common Law, an MA in Canadian Studies from Carleton University and BA from McGill University. She was raised in BC’s Similkameen Valley.