For the American military pilot, see Kim Campbell (pilot). For the fictional British television character, see Kim Campbell (Waterloo Road).
The Right Honourable
Kim Campbell
PC CC OBC KC
Campbell in 2012
19th Prime Minister of Canada
In office June 25, 1993 – November 4, 1993
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Governor General
Ray Hnatyshyn
Deputy
Jean Charest
Preceded by
Brian Mulroney
Succeeded by
Jean Chrétien
Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
In office June 13, 1993 – December 14, 1993
Preceded by
Brian Mulroney
Succeeded by
Jean Charest
Minister of National Defence
In office January 4, 1993 – June 25, 1993
Prime Minister
Brian Mulroney
Preceded by
Marcel Masse
Succeeded by
Tom Siddon
Minister of Veterans Affairs
In office January 4, 1993 – June 25, 1993
Prime Minister
Brian Mulroney
Preceded by
Gerald Merrithew
Succeeded by
Peter McCreath
Minister of Justice and Attorney General
In office February 23, 1990 – January 3, 1993
Prime Minister
Brian Mulroney
Preceded by
Doug Lewis
Succeeded by
Pierre Blais
Minister of State (Indian Affairs and Northern Development)
In office January 30, 1989 – February 22, 1990
Prime Minister
Brian Mulroney
Minister
Pierre Cadieux
Preceded by
Bernard Valcourt
Succeeded by
Shirley Martin
Parliamentary constituencies
Member of Parliament for Vancouver Centre
In office November 21, 1988 – October 25, 1993
Preceded by
Pat Carney
Succeeded by
Hedy Fry
Member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly for Vancouver-Point Grey
In office September 24, 1986 – November 21, 1988
Serving with Darlene Marzari
Preceded by
Pat McGeer
Garde Gardom
Succeeded by
Tom Perry
Personal details
Born
Avril Phaedra Douglas Campbell
(1947-03-10) March 10, 1947 (age 77) Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada
Political party
Independent (since 2003)
Other political affiliations
NPA (1980–1986)
BC Social Credit (1983–1988)
Progressive Conservative (1988–2003)
Spouses
Nathan Divinsky
(m. 1972; div. 1983)
Howard Eddy
(m. 1986; div. 1993)
Hershey Felder
(m. 1997)
Alma mater
University of British Columbia (BA, LLB)
London School of Economics
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Avril Phaedra Douglas "Kim" CampbellPC CC OBC KC (born March 10, 1947) is a former Canadian politician, diplomat, lawyer, and writer who served as the 19th prime minister of Canada from June 25 to November 4, 1993. Campbell is the first and only female prime minister of Canada. Prior to becoming the final Progressive Conservative (PC) prime minister, she was also the first woman to serve as minister of justice in Canadian history and the first woman to become minister of defence in a NATO member state.[1]
Campbell was first elected to the British Columbia Legislative Assembly as a member of the British Columbia Social Credit Party in 1986 before being elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a PC in 1988. Under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, she occupied numerous cabinet positions including minister of justice and attorney general, minister of veterans affairs and minister of national defence from 1990 to 1993. Campbell became the new prime minister in June 1993 after Mulroney resigned in the wake of declining popularity. In the 1993 Canadian federal election in October of that year, the Progressive Conservatives were decimated, losing all but two seats from a previous majority, with Campbell losing her own. Her 132-day premiership is the third-shortest in Canadian history.[a]
Campbell was also the first baby boomer to hold the office, as well as the only prime minister born in British Columbia.[2] She is the chairperson for the Canadian Supreme Court advisory board.[3][4]
^"Biographical notes: Independent Advisory Board members". Prime Minister of Canada. February 19, 2021. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
^Skard, Torild (2014). "Kim Campbell". Women of Power – Half a century of female presidents and prime ministers worldwide. Bristol: Policy Press. ISBN 978-1-44731-578-0.
^"Kim Campbell to chair Supreme Court advisory board". Maclean's. The Canadian Press. August 2, 2016.
^"Prime Minister announces Advisory Board to select next Supreme Court Justice" (Press release). Government of Canada. July 17, 2017.
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