Margaret E. Hughes

Part-time Board member

Margaret E. Hughes is Professor Emerita of Law at the University of Calgary. Professor Hughes holds a B.A., a Bachelor and Master's of Laws and a Master's of Social Work. From 2001 to 2005, she was the Associate Vice-President (Human Resources) at the University of Calgary and provided strategic leadership as a member of the University's bargaining team during negotiations with the Faculty Association in 2002 and 2004. Professor Hughes previously served as Dean of the Faculty of Law during which time she negotiated the establishment and funding of the law faculty's first graduate program and co-chaired a successful initiative to establish an interdisciplinary research institute for the study of law and the family. Professor Hughes co-chaired the University of Calgary's Annual Labour Arbitration Conference for 10 years and she has served as an arbitrator in Alberta. She has also taught law at the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Windsor. Professor Hughes was appointed as a part-time member of the Public Service Labour Relations Board on August 1, 2007 for a period of three years. She was subsequently reappointed for an additional five-year term, which will end on August 1, 2015.