About
Lesley McCullough has extensive legal and policy experience in governance and Aboriginal rights. She has worked for the Government of Yukon since 1992. Before becoming acting Assistant Deputy Minister of Courts and Regulatory Services, she held a variety of positions at the Government of Yukon's Land Claims and Implementation Secretariat, including legal counsel to the Government of Yukon in the negotiation of the Umbrella Final Agreement and Yukon First Nation Final and Self-Government Agreements, and director of mandate and policy. Lesley is a graduate of F.H. Collins Secondary School in Whitehorse, Yukon and has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the University of Alberta and a law degree from Queen's University. Lesley McCullough: I'm Lesley McCullough. I moved to the Yukon as a young teenager. I've lived in the Yukon almost all of my life. I'm a lawyer by training, and right now I'm the Assistant Deputy Minister – I'm an Assistant Deputy Minister of Justice. And during, I guess, the late 80s and the 90s, into the 2000s, I worked variously as a legal counsel and then as director of mandate and policy and sometimes as a negotiator for the Yukon Government in the Yukon land claims – comprehensive land claim negotiation process.