Rod Frank

Rod Frank is the Mayor at Strathcona County. Previously, Rod served as an Antitrust Law Advisor, Rod Frank Consulting. He was an Associate General Counsel at TELUS Communications. Rod holds a BCom in Business and a JD in Law from the University of Alberta.

Rod was elected to his first term as Mayor of Strathcona County on October 16, 2017. Mayor Frank moved with family to Sherwood Park in 1963, and now lives here with his own family.

Rod has Business and Law Degrees from the University of Alberta, and brings 30 years’ experience in business and law to Strathcona County Council. He was also a former Lawyer In Your Corner columnist for the Sherwood Park News.

Leadership credentials in the business world include co-leader of Legal Services at TELUS, and practice lead to the wholesale, business, and wireless divisions; as well as lead competition law advisor. He was lead counsel closing a $1.2 billion-dollar deal, one of the single largest telecom services transactions in Canadian history.

In the legal field, he headed the Canadian Bar Association’s National Competition Law Section, comprised of over 1,000 expert antitrust lawyers. Rod is also a former member of the American Bar Association’s Compliance & Ethics Advisory Board.

In the non-profit sector, Rod was one of the original incorporators of the Elk Island Education Foundation (REAL Foundation), and a former President and General Manager of the Edmonton Wildcat Junior Football Club.

Rod is committed to serving the citizens throughout this four-year term. The core of his plan is to provide financial certainty for individuals and industry, and a citizen-centred culture.