15 Facts About Doug Black

Douglas John Black was born on May 10,1952 and is a lawyer and former Canadian senator and from Alberta, Canada.

Doug Black was appointed to the Senate on Prime Minister Stephen Harper's advice on January 25,2013, having won a Senate nominee election in 2012.

Doug Black resigned from the Senate on October 31,2021, in order to return to private life.

Doug Black attended the University of Alberta, where he was actively involved in student government, and in 1975, graduated from Dalhousie University with a Bachelor of Laws.

Doug Black was called to the Newfoundland Bar in 1977 and the Alberta Bar in 1994.

Doug Black is former chairman of the board of the Michaelle Jean Foundation and was founder of the Lake Crest Independent School in St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Doug Black is Governor-Emeritus of the Banff Centre, where he was National Co-chair of the centre's successful $130 million campus revitalization campaign.

Doug Black was founding president of the Energy Policy Institute of Canada, a not-for-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the development of a Canadian energy framework.

Doug Black ran as one of three Progressive Conservative senate nominees in the 2012 Alberta Senate nominee election.

Doug Black finished first out of thirteen candidates in the province-wide vote, taking 428,791 votes.

Doug Black was appointed to the Senate on January 25,2013, and sat as a Conservative until July 2016, when he changed his designation to Independent.

Doug Black subsequently joined the Independent Senators Group and, on November 4,2019, he joined the Canadian Senators Group.

Doug Black sat on the Senate Committees on Transport and Communications; and serves as chair on the Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce.

Doug Black was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2002 and was awarded the Alberta Centennial Medal in December 2005 for community leadership.

Doug Black stepped down from the Board and his roles in several other organizations prior to taking up his duties in the Senate.