Law alumnus Steven Point named new Lieutenant-Governor

On September 4, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the appointment of Judge Steven Point as British Columbia’s newest Lieutenant-Governor.

In 1999, Judge Point was appointed a provincial court judge, most recently sitting in Provincial Court in Abbotsford. In 2005, he was appointed Chief Commissioner of the British Columbia Treaty Commission. A past recipient of a National Aboriginal Achievement Award, Judge Point has also served as an elected Chief of Skowdale First Nation, as the tribal chair of the Stó:lō Nation, and honoured as Grand Chief by the Chiefs of Stó:lō Tribal Council. Between 1991 and 1994 he was the Director of the First Nations Legal Studies Program at the UBC Faculty of Law.

Judge Point graduated from the UBC Faculty of Law in 1985 and was called to the Bar in British Columbia in 1986. For a curriculum vitae and biography, visit http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/nr/prs/j-a2005/02590bk_e.html or http://www.naaf.ca/html/s_point_e.html.