The Honourable Noël Kinsella PC |
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Speaker of the Senate | |
In office February 8, 2006 – November 26, 2014 |
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Nominated by | Stephen Harper |
Preceded by | Daniel Hays |
Succeeded by | Pierre Claude Nolin |
Senator from New Brunswick (Fredericton-York-Sunbury) |
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In office September 12, 1990 – November 26, 2014 |
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Appointed by | Brian Mulroney |
Personal details | |
Born |
Noël Augustus Kinsella November 28, 1939 Saint John, New Brunswick |
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse(s) | Ann Conley Kinsella |
Profession | Professor, senior public servant |
Religion | Roman Catholic |
Noël Augustus Kinsella, PC (born November 28, 1939) is a Canadian politician and was Speaker of the Canadian Senate from 2006 to 2014.
Kinsella was born in Saint John, New Brunswick. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from University College in Dublin, Ireland. He is also an alumnus of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas Angelicum in Rome from which he earned a Ph.L. and then a Ph.D. in 1965 with a dissertation entitled Toward a theory of personality development : a study of the works of Erik H. Erikson. Furthermore, he received an S.T.L. and an S.T.D. degree from the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome. He was a Professor for 41 years at St. Thomas University and is currently a member of the Board of Governors. He also served as Chair of the Atlantic Human Rights Centre.
Kinsella was appointed to the Canadian Senate on the recommendation of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney on September 12, 1990, as a Senator for New Brunswick. He sat as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party caucus until 2004 when he joined most of the Tory caucus in becoming a Conservative Senator.