Jody Wilson-Raybould

The Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould PC OBC KC
Puglaas
Minister of Veterans Affairs Associate Minister of National Defence
In office January 14, 2019 – February 12, 2019
Prime Minister	Justin Trudeau
Preceded by	Seamus O'Regan
Succeeded by	Lawrence MacAulay
Minister of Justice Attorney General of Canada
In office November 4, 2015 – January 14, 2019
Prime Minister	Justin Trudeau
Preceded by	Peter MacKay
Succeeded by	David Lametti
Member of Parliament for Vancouver Granville
In office October 19, 2015 – September 20, 2021
Preceded by	Riding established
Succeeded by	Taleeb Noormohamed
Personal details
Born	Jody Wilson (1971-03-23) March 23, 1971 (age 53) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Political party	Independent
Other political affiliations	Liberal (until April 2019)
Spouse	Tim Raybould
Residence	Vancouver[1]
Education	University of Victoria (BA) University of British Columbia (JD)

Jody Wilson-Raybould PC OBC KC (born March 23, 1971), also known by her initials JWR^[2][3] and by her Kwak’wala name Puglaas,^[4][5] is a Canadian lawyer, author, and former politician who served as the member of Parliament (MP) for the British Columbia (BC) riding of Vancouver Granville from 2015 to 2021. She was initially elected as a member of the Liberal Party – serving as justice minister and attorney general from 2015 to 2019, and briefly as veterans minister and associate national defence minister in 2019 – until she resigned in response to statements from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during the SNC-Lavalin affair. She was later expelled from caucus and continued to sit in Parliament as an Independent and was reelected in 2019, but did not run in 2021. Before entering federal politics, she was a BC provincial Crown prosecutor, a treaty commissioner and regional chief of the BC Assembly of First Nations.