Christy Clark

Christina Joan Christy Clark, MLA is a Canadian politician who currently serves as the 35th premier of British Columbia, Canada. Clark was sworn in as premier on March 14, 2011, after she won the leadership of the British Columbia Liberal Party in the 2011 leadership election on February 26, 2011. She is the second woman to serve as premier of British Columbia, after Rita Johnston in 1991

Clark was born on October 29, 1965 in Burnaby, British Columbia, the daughter of Mavis Audrey and Jim Clark. Her father was a teacher and a threetime candidate for the legislative assembly, and her mother, who was born in Glasgow, Scotland, was a marriage and family therapist in Vancouver. Clark graduated from Burnaby South Senior Secondary before attending Simon Fraser University , the Sorbonne in France and the University of Edinburgh in Scotland to major in political science and religious studies. She did not graduate from any postsecondary institution.

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