Suzanne Anton was elected to represent the riding of Vancouver-Fraserview in 2013 after a distinguished career at the municipal level. She was appointed Attorney General and Minister of Justice on 10 June 2013.
A lawyer and former prosecutor with the Criminal Justice Branch of B.C., Suzanne has nine years of elected service She was elected to Vancouver City Council in 2005 and re-elected in 2008. Before becoming a City Councillor, she served three years on the Vancouver Park Board.
Suzanne was on the Board of Directors for the B.C. Pavilion Corporation (PavCo), the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the BC Sports Hall of Fame. She served on the 2011 Grey Cup committee and the Vancouver 125 committee.
Suzanne served as the Vancouver director for the Federation of Canadian municipalities, where she was the vice chair of the Committee to Increase Women’s Participation in Municipal Government and sat on the Governance Review Committee.
As a Director of Metro Vancouver, Suzanne was a member of the Waste Management Committee, the Land Use and Transportation Committee, and the UBC/Metro Vancouver joint committee.
Suzanne served as the Vancouver director on Translink during the initial construction of the Canada Line. While there, she also served on the audit committee.
Suzanne has served on numerous community and sport boards. She was also a mathematics teacher in Portugal and Nigeria (with CUSO). She has experience in the leadership, management and financial operations of some of B.C.'s largest organizations.