predecessor successor appointed birth_place party office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
stanley waters new district tommy banks tom sindlinger brian mulroney calgary , alberta progressive conservative senator assembly of alberta for calgary-buffalo for alberta , alberta member of the legislative 22 august 1935 1993 1971 ron ghitter
 2000 1979 ronald d. ghitter
ron ghitter

ronald d. ghitter -lrb- born august 22 , 1935 -rrb- is a canadian lawyer and former senator .
born in calgary , alberta , he received his bachelor of arts degree in 1956 and his bachelor of law degree in 1959 from the university of alberta .
he practised real estate law in calgary .
from 1986 to 1988 , he was executive vice president of development at trizec corporation .
he was first elected in the 1971 alberta general election defeating popular calgary stampeders star don luzzi from the alberta social credit party in a very tight race .
he served two terms as a member of the legislative assembly of alberta for the electoral district of calgary-buffalo until 1979 .
following revelations that james keegstra , an eckville school teacher , had taught his students anti-semitic propaganda , ghitter headed a committee investigating issues of tolerance and understanding within the educational system .
this committee released a report to the government in 1984 .
ghitter re-entered politics in 1985 to run for the leadership of the progressive conservative party but came in third losing to don getty .
he was appointed to the senate in 1993 representing the senatorial division of alberta .
from 1996 to 1999 , he was the chair of the senate standing committee of energy , the environment and natural resources .
sitting as a progressive conservative , he resigned in 2000 .
in 1990 , he was awarded the alberta human rights award .
