Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Mary Jane McCallum | |
Office: | 8th Chancellor of Brandon University |
1Blankname: | President |
1Namedata: | David Docherty |
Predecessor: | Michael Decter |
Office2: | Senator from Manitoba |
Nominator2: | Justin Trudeau |
Appointed2: | Julie Payette |
Birth Date: | 1 May 1952 |
Predecessor2: | Janis Johnson |
Term Start2: | December 4, 2017 |
Party: | Non-affiliated |
Otherparty: | Independent Senators Group (2018-2022) |
Profession: | Dentist |
Mary Jane McCallum (born 1952) is a Canadian Senator representing Manitoba.
McCallum was born on May 1, 1952. She attended a residential school from the age of five.[1] She received a Dental Nursing Diploma from the Wascana Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences in Regina, Saskatchewan, in 1977 and a dental therapy diploma at the School of Dental Therapy in 1979. She earned a Doctor of Dental Medicine degree from the University of Manitoba in 1990.
A dentist by profession, and a Cree woman, she has spent much of her career working to provide dental and medical services to northern and Indigenous communities in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.[2]
She was appointed to the Senate by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on December 4, 2017.[3] [4]
On May 6, 2021 she was named Chancellor of Brandon University. She is the first Indigenous woman to hold the post.[5]