Doug Shanks

Human Resource & Compensation Committee, Member

Governance & Nominating Committee, Member

Doug Shanks is a lifelong resident of Thunder Bay. He has practiced law in Thunder Bay since 1978 and with the Thunder Bay firm of Cheadles LLP since 1984. He has more than 40 years of experience, primarily in the fields of corporate and commercial law.

Doug was on the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre Board of Directors, the chair of the Quality Committee, and on the Executive Committee. He has now retired but while in practice was counsel to national and international corporations, chartered banks and various governmental organizations and agencies.

He received a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Western Ontario in 1976 and subsequent training with the University of Windsor Faculty of Law in alternate dispute resolution.