11 Facts About Jim Gurnett

James Gurnett was born on October 10,1949 and is a former politician from Alberta, Canada.

Jim Gurnett served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1985 until 1986.

Jim Gurnett is currently the principal of Common Place Services, doing a variety of consulting work, primarily with NGOs.

Previously, Jim Gurnett was Manager of Community Services at Bissell Centre, serving people living in poverty in Edmonton's urban core.

For 15 years Jim Gurnett worked as teacher, program facilitator and administrator at schools in Alberta and Afghanistan.

Jim Gurnett has been a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Chief of Staff for the NDP caucus at the Alberta Legislature, Director of Communications and Outreach for the Official Opposition at the Alberta Legislature, and a newspaper editor.

Jim Gurnett was elected to the Alberta Legislature in a by-election for Spirit River-Fairview after the local MLA, party leader Grant Notley, died in a plane crash.

Jim Gurnett attempted to win his seat back in the 1989 Alberta general election.

Jim Gurnett then ran in Sherwood Park in the 1993 provincial election, placing third.

Jim Gurnett has had a children's book, The Meeting Place, published by the Alberta Association of Immigrant Serving Agencies, and is author of one chapter in Search for Equality and Justice, Alberta's Human Rights Story, a book on the history of human rights in Alberta, published in 2012 by the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights.

Jim Gurnett is author of Together, Creating a Better World, a handbook for community work to end gender discrimination.