Mrs. Angela Pitt - MLA for Airdrie

Heavenly Father, we thank you for MLA, Ms. Angela Pitt, Airdrie.  We pray blessings, health and strength on all she wishes to accomplish.   Please, Lord, open doors for Ms. Pitt and give her discernment and new vision and strategies as she seeks to act upon things that are vital and of value to the people in this province.  We pray strength for the journey she is on to serve her community and province.   May she pursue meaningful time with her family which brings stability at home and at work.

Angela Pitt is the member of the Legislative Assembly for Airdrie. She is currently member of the Standing Committee on Families and Communities.

Prior to serving with the Legislative Assembly, she was a small business owner in Airdrie. During this time she also served as president of a local constituency association and was an active volunteer in her community.

She holds a business administration diploma with a major in marketing from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT).

Mrs. Pitt lives in Airdrie and enjoys reading, gardening, and snowboarding with her husband and two children.

Mr. Colin Piquette - MLA for Athabasca-Sturgeon-Redwater

Heavenly Father, we thank you for MLA, Colin Piquette, Athabasca-Sturgeon-Redwater.  We thank You for the position he serves on the Special Standing Committee on Members Services for Alberta’s Economic Future.   Please bless the time he volunteers to various community organizations.  Surround him with godly counsel, Lord, to help him reach his full potential.  We thank you for his efforts as he seeks to improve the lives of Albertans.  May he be encouraged as he serves in his community and this province.  Please bless him and his family with good health and give him direction in all his endeavors.  In Jesus’ name.   Amen

Colin Piquette was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, representing the constituency of Athabasca-Sturgeon-Redwater, on May 5, 2015.

He is a member of the Special Standing Committee on Members’ Services and the Standing Committee on Alberta's Economic Future. Previously he served on the Standing Committee on the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund.

Prior to serving with the Legislative Assembly, he was an insurance agent representing the Cooperators in Athabasca and Boyle (1999-2001,2011-2015), a consultant with the City of Edmonton's Respectful Workplace training initiative (2006 to 2011), and an instructor in ethics and law in education for the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta (2006-2011).

He also spent several years abroad teaching English at post-secondary institutions and foreign language institutes in South Korea (1997-1999,2001-2005). Prior to 1997, he ran a small publishing company, worked as an operator for Celanese Canada, and helped his parents on the family farm in Plamondon.

Mr. Piquette's employment experience also includes contract work as a political organizer with the Alberta Federation of Labour and the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees on national pension and labour law reforms respectively.

Throughout the years he has volunteered his time to various community organizations. At the time of his election in 2005 he was serving as president of the Boyle District Chamber of Commerce, as vice-president of the Boyle Betterment Committee, and as a director with the Boyle and District Agricultural Society.

Other community organizations Colin has been involved with over the years include Community Service Learning at the University of Alberta, Next Up Alberta, Public Interest Alberta, the Alberta Public Interest Research Group, the Learning Centre, Friends of the Lubicon Alberta, and the Friends of Medicare. He is a founding member of the Centre for Community Organizing and Popular Education (CCOPE).

Colin was also very active in campus politics as an undergraduate student at the University of Alberta in the late eighties and early nineties, working for the end of apartheid, women's choice, indigenous rights, francophone rights, and equality for gays and lesbians, among other worthy causes.

His extensive community involvement has earned him the Evelyn Kline Memorial Award in Community Development and an Edmonton Chamber of Voluntary Organizations community service learning project grant.

In addition to a bachelor of arts degree in political science he holds a master's degree in adult education, both from the University of Alberta.

Honourable Shannon Phillips - MLA for Lethbridge-West

Father, we are grateful for Hon. Ms. Shannon Phillips and the experience she has had in the public sector.  We ask that you would use that experience as she seeks to improve the lives of the citizens of this province.  We pray that you would give her the strength to carry out the many tasks before her and be an encouragement to the Premier.  May she sense Your love and goodness over every part of her life.

Minister of Environment and Parks

Minister Responsible for the Status of Women

Deputy Government House Leader

Shannon Phillips was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, representing the constituency of Lethbridge-West, on May 5, 2015.

On May 24, 2015, Ms. Phillips was sworn in to cabinet as Minister of Environment and Parks and as Minister Responsible for the Status of Women. She also serves as Deputy Government House Leader.

Prior to serving with the Legislative Assembly, she worked with the Alberta Federation of Labour as a policy analyst for five years.

She also spent five years as a member of the board of directors for the Womanspace Resource Centre, a non-profit organization that provides resources, referrals and education to the community and to individual women.

In 1999 she received a bachelor of arts with honours in political science and in 2002 she completed her master of arts, both at the University of Alberta.

Together with her two sons Ms. Phillips resides in Lethbridge, Alberta.

Ms. Brandy Payne - MLA for Calgary-Acadia

Father, we are thankful for MLA Brandy Payne today and for her willingness to serve the people in Calgary-Acadia.  We pray she would sense Your love and guidance as she goes about her Legislative work and in her constituency.  Continue to give her vision, direction and the steps necessary to move our province forward in the direction You desire.  Protect her family and may You provide time for them to spend quality time together.

Brandy Payne was elected as the Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Calgary-Acadia on May 5, 2015.

She currently serves as deputy chair of the Select Special Ethics and Accountability Committee. She is also a member of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts and the Standing Committee on Families and Communities.

Ms. Payne holds a journalism degree from Carleton University and graduated with high honours. She has also attended Mount Royal College, taking numerous training courses in project management.

Prior to her election, Ms. Payne worked in administrative and management capacities for over 15 years, including as owner and operator of her own yoga business since 2010.

She and her husband, Scott, are raising a young daughter, Zoe.

Mr. Prasad Panda - MLA for Calgary-Foothills

Father God, we thank you for Mr. Prasad Panda, the position he holds as MLA for Calgary - Foothills and his desire to service the people of Alberta. We ask you Father for wisdom to carry out his new role with excellence and integrity. May he be blessed with strength and endurance in the busyness of his schedule and surrounded with a good team to assist him in his endeavours. Amen

Biographical information for individual Members will be posted as soon as it is available.

Mr. Ronald Orr - MLA for Lacombe-Ponoka

Dear Lord, we thank You for MLA Ronald Orr as he serves the people of Lacombe – Ponoka.  We pray that You would bless him for the many hours of active service and the care he has shown towards the people of these communities.  May he be surrounded with individuals who will support and assist him in his role in the Legislature and refresh him with new strength.  Amen.

Ronald Orr was elected as the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Lacombe-Ponoka on May 5, 2015. He currently serves as a member of the Standing Committee on Families and Communities.

Mr. Orr has a master’s degree in theology and is an ordained minister. He also holds a journeyman carpenter’s ticket and a registered housing professional certificate and has previously owned a general contracting business.

His community involvement includes board positions with a number of charitable organizations, including the Gull Lake Centre and Calgary’s Mustard Seed Society. He also served as a public information officer for the municipal emergency management team for the village of Clive, Alberta.

Mr. Orr was born in Calgary and has lived in Lacombe-Ponoka for 13 years. He and his wife, Donna Marie, have three children.

Premier Rachel Notley - MLA for Edmonton-Strathcona

Heavenly Father, we come before You today on behalf of our Premier, Rachel Notley.  Bless her with Your grace and peace. May she experience Your wisdom and help for the challenges that come before her.  We also ask that You would guide her as she serves the people of our province and seeks to bring about future development to move Alberta towards greater success and prosperity.  May she be blessed with strength and vitality as she fulfills her role in the legislature.   In Your Holy Name we pray, Amen.

Premier of Alberta

Rachel Notley was sworn in as the province's 17th Premier on May 24, 2015. She grew up in Fairview, Alberta, and is the daughter of former Alberta ND leader Grant Notley and his wife Sandy.

Having grown up in a passionate political family that believed in the importance of building a fairer, more inclusive society, Rachel was naturally drawn to work to make her home province better, and first ran for election for the Alberta New Democrats in Edmonton-Strathcona in 2008. She was re-elected in 2012 and again in 2015.

Rachel holds a bachelor of arts in political science from the University of Alberta, and a law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School. She has worked for a variety of labour unions in both Alberta and British Columbia and served as a ministerial advisor to British Columbia's Attorney General in the 1990s. Rachel's work during her legal career focused on labour law, workers' compensation advocacy and workplace health and safety issues.

Rachel lives in Edmonton's Old Strathcona neighbourhood, along with her husband Lou and their two children Ethan and Sophie.