John Nilson

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John Nilson

(Interim) Leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party
In office November 19, 2011 – March 9, 2013
Preceded by	Dwain Lingenfelter
Succeeded by	Cam Broten
MLA for Regina Lakeview
Incumbent
Assumed office 1995
Personal details
Born	(1951-07-09) July 9, 1951^[1] Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Political party	New Democratic Party
Occupation	lawyer

John Nilson is a Canadian politician in Saskatchewan. He is the member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan for the Regina Lakeview constituency, representing the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party. A former lawyer with the Saskatchewan law firm Macpherson Leslie and Tyerman, he was first elected in the 1995 provincial election.

Nilson was educated at Pacific Lutheran University, the University of Oslo, at St. Olaf College in Minnesota and the University of British Columbia. He was admitted to the British Columbia bar in 1978 and to the Saskatchewan bar in 1979.^[2]

He was appointed as Minister of Justice and Attorney General on November 22, 1995, Minister of Crown Investments Corporation on September 30, 1999, Minister of Health on February 7, 2001, where he was Saskatchewan's longest serving health minister and then Minister of Environment on February 3, 2006.

In the wake of the NDP's loss in the 2011 election and the resignation of leader Dwain Lingenfelter, Nilson, who was re-elected, was declared interim leader of the party.^[3] He was succeeded by Cam Broten in the leadership election on March 9, 2013.^[4]

References

↑ Quiring, Brett (2004). Saskatchewan politicians: lives past and present. Canadian Plains Research Center Press. p. 179. ISBN 0889771650. Retrieved 2012-03-18.
↑ "Mr. John Nilson". Members of the Legislative Assembly. Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. Retrieved 2012-03-18.
↑ "John Nilson, veteran MLA, chosen interim Sask. NDP leader". CBC News. 19 November 2011. Retrieved 20 November 2011.
↑ "Cam Broten elected as new leader of Saskatchewan NDP". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, March 9, 2013.

External links

Saskatchewan New Democrats: Regina Lakeview

v t e Current members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan Party	Wall Bjornerud Boyd Bradshaw Brkich Campeau Cheveldayoff Cox D'Autremont Docherty Doherty Doke Draude Duncan Eagles Elhard Harpauer Harrison Hart Heppner Hickie Hutchinson Huyghebaert Jurgens Kirsch Krawetz Lawrence Makowsky Marchuk McMillan McMorris Merriman Michelson Moe Morgan Norris Ottenbreit Parent Phillips Reiter Ross Steinley Stewart Tell Tochor Toth Weekes Wilson Wyant

New Democrat	Broten Belanger Chartier Forbes McCall Nilson Sproule Vermette Wotherspoon

v t e Leaders of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party and its antecedents

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (1932–1967)	Coldwell Williams Brockelbank Douglas Lloyd

Saskatchewan New Democratic Party (1967–present)	Blakeney Romanow Calvert Lingenfelter Nilson Broten

Leadership elections	1942 1943 1961 1970 2001 2009 2013

Persondata
Name	Nilson, John
Alternative names
Short description	Canadian politician
Date of birth	July 9, 1951
Place of birth	Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Date of death
Place of death

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