Tracy-Anne McPhee

Tracy-Anne McPhee has a Bachelor of Arts (1983), a Bachelor of Education (1984) and an L.L.B. from Dalhousie University Law School (1990). She has held senior positions with the Federation of Law Societies, Law Society of Yukon, Maddison Chair in Northern Justice, Yukon Law Foundation and the Canadian Bar Association, both locally and nationally. She was the first female President of the Yukon Law Society. In 2006, she became the President of the Canadian Federation of Law Societies.((“Minister Tracy-Anne McPhee.” 2025 website:  Speaker Bios | House of Wolf))

McPhee was Yukon’s Ombudsman and Information and Privacy Commissioner from May 2007 to end of April 2012. Representing Riverdale South, she was elected to the Yukon Legislative Assembly in 2016 and served as Minister of Justice and Minister of Education. She was re-elected in 2021 and served as Minister of Health and Social Services and Minister of Justice. She held the position of Government House Leader in both Legislative Assemblies.((“Hon. Tracy-Anne McPhee.” Yukon Legislative Assembly, 2025 website: Tracy-Anne McPhee | Yukon Legislative Assembly)) She did not run in the 2025 election, the last of seven governing Liberal cabinet ministers to publicly announce they would not be running again.((“Health and Justice Minister McPhee won’t run in upcoming Yukon elections.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 12 September 2025.))
	
McPhee faced criticism in 2019 for her handling of the situation when a student was sexually assaulted by an education assistant at Hidden Valley Elementary School. The Liberal Party praised McPhee for her role in modernizing legislation. She supported boosting funding to the RCMP to create the Car 867 program, staffed with a mental-health nurse, and the Sexualized Assault Response Team (SART). She oversaw the creation of a health authority, the walk-in clinic, and the mental wellness unit at the Whitehorse General Hospital.((“Health and Justice Minister McPhee won’t run in upcoming Yukon elections.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 12 September 2025.))