Maureen Anne McTeer is a Canadian author and lawyer, married to Joe Clark, the 16th Prime Minister of Canada.
19 Facts About Maureen McTeer
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Maureen McTeer's father taught her and her older sister, Colleen, to play hockey, resulting in McTeer's childhood dream of playing in the NHL.
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Maureen McTeer's commitment to feminism was born when her father reminded her that girls do not play in the NHL.
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Maureen McTeer switched her focus to her academic and debating talents, which earned her a scholarship to the University of Ottawa.
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Maureen McTeer earned an undergraduate degree in 1973 and a law degree in 1976, both from Ottawa, where she served as features editor of the student newspaper, The Fulcrum, and was a member of the English debate team and the Progressive Conservative Campus Club.
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Maureen McTeer worked as a staffer in Clark's office before marrying him in 1973.
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When Clark became leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in 1976, Maureen McTeer became controversial for keeping her own surname and maintaining her own career.
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At one official luncheon for Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, where Maureen McTeer was seated with the guest of honour, the other women at the table teased Maureen McTeer by addressing her always as "Mrs Clark".
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Maureen McTeer was a professor and taught at the Universities of Dalhousie, Calgary and British Columbia in Canada, and was a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley.
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Maureen McTeer was a distinguished scholar in residence at American University in the Government department and lectured at George Mason University.
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Maureen McTeer is the author of three books, In my own Name, her autobiography, Parliament: Canada's democracy and how it works, and Residences: Homes of Canada's leaders.
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Maureen McTeer wrote journals for various academic journals, many on the ethics of health, including euthanasia.
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Maureen McTeer promoted Frances Itani's novel Deafening in Canada Reads 2006.
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Maureen McTeer promoted its French-language translation, Une coquille de silence, in Le combat des livres 2006.
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One of the tournament's trophies, the Maureen McTeer Trophy, is named for her.
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Maureen McTeer was awarded the DIVA award for Outstanding Contributions to Women's Health and Well-Being, and the Hungarian President's Cross.
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Maureen McTeer is a specialist in medical law, and for a while was a member of the Royal Commission on Reproductive and Genetic Technologies.
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Maureen McTeer received the Governor General's Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case in 2008.
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Maureen McTeer was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Carleton University in Ottawa in 2010 and an Honorary Doctorate of Civil Law from Acadia University in 2017.