Eleanor Clitheroe-Bell
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The Rev. Eleanor Clitheroe-Bell, MBA , LL.M , LL.B, M.Div, is a Canadian cleric and former businesswoman.
Born in Montreal in 1955, Clitheroe earned her LL.B from the University of Western Ontario (UWO) in 1977. In 1978 she earned her LL.M from McGill University, and earned her MBA from UWO in 1980. In 2005, she obtained a Master of Divinity from Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto.
She then worked at a law firm in Toronto, and worked as an executive for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. She was Ontario's deputy minister of finance from 1990 to 1993 under the NDP government of Bob Rae. She then became a vice-president of Ontario Hydro, and served as president and CEO when its name was changed to Hydro One. In 2000 she became chancellor of UWO.
In 2002 she was named Business Woman of the Year by the National Post, but soon afterward she was fired as CEO of Hydro One after a public controversy arose regarding her substantial salary and benefits. Her wrongful dismissal lawsuit against the utility is still pending.
From 2000 until 2004 she was Chancellor of the University of Western Ontario. In 2005, she was ordained a deacon in the Anglican Church of Canada, and later that year, was priested. She is Executive Director of Prison Fellowship Canada, and Assistant Curate at St. Cuthbert's, Oakville, Ontario. She is known to her parishioners as "Reverend Ellie".
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