Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

The Speaker of the Alberta Legislative Assembly, is the presiding officer in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.

The Speaker is selected by secret ballot in the first session of a new legislative assembly.

List of speakers
No. Portrait Name
Electoral district
(Birth–Death)		 Term of office Party Legislature
Term start Term end
1 Charles W. Fisher
MLA for Banff (until 1909)
MLA for Cochrane (from 1909)
(1866–1919)		 March 15,
1906		 May 5,
1919		 Liberal 1st
2nd
3rd
4th
2 Charles Pingle
MLA for Redcliff
(1880–1928)		 February 17,
1920		 July 18,
1921		 Liberal
3 Oran McPherson
MLA for Little Bow
(1886–1949)		 February 2,
1922		 May 25,
1926		 United Farmers 5th
4 George Johnston
MLA for Coronation
(1884–1977)		 February 10,
1927		 July 22,
1935		 United Farmers 6th
7th
5 Nathan Eldon Tanner
MLA for Cardston
(1898–1982)		 February 6,
1936		 January 4,
1937		 Social Credit 8th
6 Peter Dawson
MLA for Little Bow
(1892–1963)		 February 25,
1937		 March 24,
1963		 Social Credit
9th
10th
11th
12th
13th
14th
7 Arthur J. Dixon
MLA for Calgary South (until 1971)
MLA for Calgary-Millican (from 1971)
(1919–2007)		 March 26,
1963		 March 1,
1972		 Social Credit
15th
16th
8 Gerard Amerongen
MLA for Edmonton-Meadowlark
(1914–2013)		 March 2,
1972		 June 11,
1986		 Progressive Conservative 17th
18th
19th
20th
9 David J. Carter
MLA for Calgary-Egmont
(born 1934)		 June 12,
1986		 August 30,
1993		 Progressive Conservative 21st
22nd
10 Stanley Schumacher
MLA for Drumheller
(1933–2020)		 August 30,
1993		 April 14,
1997		 Progressive Conservative 23rd
11 Ken Kowalski
MLA for Barrhead-Westlock
(until 2004)
MLA for Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock
(from 2004)
(born 1945)		 April 14,
1997		 May 23,
2012		 Progressive Conservative 24th
25th
26th
27th
12 Gene Zwozdesky
MLA for Edmonton-Mill Creek
(1948–2019)		 May 23,
2012		 June 11,
2015		 Progressive Conservative 28th
13 Bob Wanner
MLA for Medicine Hat
(born 1949)		 June 11,
2015		 May 20,
2019		 New Democratic 29th
14 Nathan Cooper
MLA for Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills
(born 1980)		 May 21,
2019		 Incumbent United Conservative 30th
31st

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