Jim Kenyon

Jim Kenyon
MLA for Porter Creek North
In office November 4, 2002 – October 11, 2011
Preceded by	Don Roberts
Succeeded by	Doug Graham
Minister of Economic Development
In office July 12, 2004 – May 4, 2011
Premier	Dennis Fentie
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Steve Nordick
Minister of the Environment
In office November 30, 2002 – July 12, 2004
Premier	Dennis Fentie
Preceded by	Dale Eftoda
Succeeded by	Peter Jenkins
Personal details
Political party	Yukon Party; Canadian Alliance
Residence	Whitehorse, Yukon
Occupation	Veterinarian

Jim Kenyon is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Porter Creek North in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 2002 to 2011. He is a member of the Yukon Party.

Kenyon was a candidate for the leadership of the Yukon Party in 2011, following the resignation of Dennis Fentie, but lost to Darrell Pasloski.

Jim Kenyon, a former veterinary surgeon, first attempted to enter electoral politics in the 2000 Canadian federal election in the riding of Yukon as a member of the newly formed Canadian Alliance Party. Kenyon was unsuccessful in his attempt to unseat incumbent New Democrat Louise Hardy, though Hardy did lose to Liberal candidate Larry Bagnell.

Kenyon ran again, this time at the territorial level, in the 2002 Yukon election on behalf of the Yukon Party in the Whitehorse riding of Porter Creek North. Though long-held by the Yukon Party, Porter Creek North had been lost to the Yukon Liberals in the 2000 election; however, incumbent Liberal Cabinet minister-turned-independent MLA Don Roberts, had opted not to seek re-election. Kenyon won Porter Creek North with nearly half the vote and joined the new Yukon Premier, Dennis Fentie, in defeating the Liberals and forming government.

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