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Former Vernon Monashee MLA Tom Christensen has made Queen's counsel.
The announcement was made Friday by Attorney General Suzanne Anton.
Christensen is an associate at Nixon Wenger LLP with a general practice, including wills and incapacity planning, estate administration and real estate conveyancing and financing.
He served as Vernon's MLA from 2001 to 2009 and held three cabinet portfolios in education, aboriginal affairs and reconciliation and children and family development.
Christensen is a continuing education instructor at Okanagan College, director and chair of Community Living B.C. and director of the Canadian Mental Health Association, Vernon branch. He also previously served as chair of the Legal Services Society of B.C.
The honorary title, QC, is conferred on only seven per cent of practising lawyers in B.C. and allows a barrister to wear a black silk robe in the courtroom.
"The QC designation is given to lawyers who have shown professional integrity, excellence in the practice of law, and who have contributed to their communities and the legal profession in meaningful ways,” said Anton, in a media release.
The first Queen's counsel was Sir Francis Bacon who served as legal advisor to Queen Elizabeth I beginning in 1594.
