Linda has been a lawyer since 1986, a mediator since 1992, a Registered Family Mediator since 1995 and a Registered Collaborative Lawyer since 2000. But Linda is more than just a lawyer;

 

She is a community minded woman who has been recognized by the legal profession and the Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Alberta by her Queen’s Counsel appointment for her many contributions to the Canadian community;

 

When you spend time with Linda Long, Q.C. you will meet a woman committed to the principles of equal access to justice for all, to law reform, to the equality of men and women, to the right of all people, regardless of ethnic origin, country of origin, mental health, physical health, religious background, or any other status which marginalizes individuals, to equal treatment before the law;

 

Linda has contributed over her long career to creating equality of opportunity for many people in many walks of life in Canada;

 

Linda is proud of having served Canada in the Canadian Forces for over 10 years before entering university in 1980 to begin studies for her legal career. After graduation from law school in 1985, and while gaining experience in family law, Linda was appointed in 1990 by Canada’s Minister of National Defence to the Minister’s Advisory Board on Women in the Canadian Forces, where she served for three years advising the Minister on gender integration policy development. Linda contributed to policy development which ensure that the young men and women of Canada today have the opportunity to serve their country equally, and without discrimination, pursuant to the protections guaranteed by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; 

 

Linda is also proud to have spearheaded two refugee sponsorships, one of eight Cambodian refugees who had been consigned to a refugee camp for eleven years after the Vietnam war, and the second of a Rwandan man who had escaped the genocide which had claimed his remaining family members.

 

Linda has helped foreign workers with employment abuse problems without charge; been a foster parent for a severely mentally ill man for 3 ½ years - and provided emergency housing in her own home to an immigrant who had become homeless during severe winter conditions when no one else would help, and he was residing in a warehouse;

 

Linda has received two citations from the Canadian Red Cross Society for special contributions to the Edmonton Tornado Relief Effort, over a period of five years;

 

She has been on the Boards of the Alberta Family Mediation Soceity - twice - and the Alberta Arbitration and Mediation Society; 

 

Linda helped found the Families of Native Children in 1989; She has been the recipient of an eagle feather from Grandma Grizzly in 2000, and an eagle blanket and star blanket and an honour dance from the Red Road Healing Society, in the Cree tradition, in 2008.

 

Linda has been married 32 years, has three sons and is a proud Kookum to five grandchildren.