Calgary judge receives promotion (08/31/97)

Calgary judge receives promotion

by Nestor Gula

TORONTO - Justice Allen B. Sulatycky of Calgary was appointed a judge of the Court of Appeal of Alberta in Calgary on July 7. He replaces Justice R.P. Kerans, who resigned recently. Prior to this new appointment, Justice Sulatycky sat on the Court of the Queen's Bench of Alberta (the province's court of second instance).

Born in Hafford, Saskatchewan, Justice Sulatycky completed law school at the University of Saskatchewan in 1962 and was called to the Bar of Alberta in 1963. Speaking with The Weekly in a recent interview, Judge Sulatycky said, "I moved to Alberta primarily because there were more opportunities there at the time, and I had a cousin who practiced law there and another cousin, by marriage, who was a judge in Edmonton."

From 1968 to 1973, he served as a member of Parliament for the Liberal Party representing the Rocky Mountain riding, which is on the western edge of Alberta and encompasses the Banff and Jasper national parks. As an MP in the government of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, he served as parliamentary secretary to Energy, Mines, and Resources Minister Joe Green and later to Indian Affairs and Northern Development Minister Jean Chrétien, who is Canada's current prime minister.

He lost his seat in the election of October 30, 1972, to Progressive Conservative Joe Clark, who later became leader of his party and briefly served as prime minister of the country in 1979.

Judge Sulatycky was appointed to the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta in 1982. Prior to his apointment he practiced law with the firm Parlee, Irving, Henning, Mustard and Rodney in Calgary.

While in Edmonton and Calgary, Judge Sulatycky was involved with the local chapters of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress and the Ukrainian Professional and Business Association, but has curtailed his community activism since being appointed to the Bench.

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