Elaine McCoy

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Elaine McCoy, QC , BA , LL.B (born March 7, 1946) in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada is a Canadian senator from Alberta.

A lawyer by profession, McCoy is President of the Macleod Institute at the University of Calgary. From 1985 to 1993, she was the Alberta Progressive Conservative Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Calgary West in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, and held several cabinet positions in the government of Premier Donald Getty, including Minister of Labour.

She has also been a senior member of the Alberta Ministerial Advisory Committee for Environmental Protection, Governor of the Calgary Centre for Innovative Technology, and member of the Canadian Evaluation Society and the Law Society of Alberta.

McCoy is currently vice-chair of Climate Change Central, a multi-stakeholder organization formed to co-ordinate greenhouse gas emission reductions across the province of Alberta.

She was appointed to the Senate on the recommendation of Prime Minister Paul Martin on March 24, 2005. She sits in the Upper House representing Calgary as a Progressive Conservative. Unless she resigns or passes away, Senator McCoy will continue to sit in the Senate until 2021

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Preceded by Peter Lougheed	MLA Calgary West 1986-1993	Succeeded by Danny Dalla-Longa

Progressive Conservative Rump Caucus in the Canadian Senate

Norman Atkins | Elaine McCoy | Lowell Murray

	Alberta Caucus serving in the 39th Canadian Parliament.
Senators	Tommy Banks (Lib), Joyce Fairbairn (Lib), Daniel Hays (Lib), Elaine McCoy (PC), Grant Mitchell (Lib), Claudette Tardif (Lib)
Members of Parliament	Diane Ablonczy (Con), Rona Ambrose (Con), Rob Anders (Con), Leon Benoit (Con), Blaine Calkins (Con), Rick Casson (Con), Ken Epp (Con), Peter Goldring (Con), Art Hanger (Con), Stephen Harper (Con), Laurie Hawn (Con), Rahim Jaffer (Con), Brian Jean (Con), Jason Kenney (Con), Mike Lake (Con), Ted Menzies (Con), Rob Merrifield (Con), Bob Mills (Con), Deepak Obhrai (Con), Jim Prentice (Con), James Rajotte (Con), Lee Richardson (Con), Monte Solberg (Con), Kevin Sorenson (Con), Brian Storseth (Con), Myron Thompson (Con), Chris Warkentin (Con), John Williams (Con)