ALRI is honoured to announce that Carly Fox, Matthew Woodley, and Cal Johnson Q.C. have joined its Board of Directors.

Carly Fox is a member of the Kainai Nation in southern Alberta. She is a partner at Fox Fraser LLP located in Redwood Meadows, AB. Carly represents First Nations governments and organizations in relation to specific claims, governance, negotiations, and litigation. Carly has a law degree from the University of Victoria. She was called to the bar in Alberta in 2008 and in Manitoba in 2020. Carly is a sought after speaker on many areas of Indigenous law and has provided her expertise on various federal and provincial legislation including The Safe Drinking Water for First Nations Act, the Indigenous Languages Act, the Impact Assessment Act, the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit, and Metis children, youth, and families, among others.

Cal was born and raised in Calgary and completed his Bachelor of Commerce degree there before moving to Edmonton to complete his Bachelor of Laws at the University of Alberta. He returned to Calgary and was called to the Alberta bar in 1976, after articling with Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP. He has stayed there ever since, now acting as counsel for the firm. Cal has served as a Bencher of the Law Society of Alberta since 2013, including time as Chair or Vice-Chair of its Governance Committee, Audit Committee, Policy and Regulatory Reform Committee, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee and Executive Committee. Outside of his work as Bencher, Cal has chaired and served on the Board of Directors of Vertigo Theatre, and has served as a Director of the United Way, the Springbank Community Planning Association and the Doorway (A Youth Employment Empowerment Agency). He has instructed in the Bar Admission course in the area of Business Law, and in CPLED in the area of Ethics and Professionalism. He has also served the Canadian Bar Association in the past as Chairs of the South Alberta Real Estate Subsection and the South Alberta Joint Legislative Review Committee.

Matthew A. Woodley provides advice to a wide range of organizations including employers, print and broadcast media organizations, post-secondary institutions, municipalities and professional regulatory bodies. He is admitted to the bar in Alberta, Yukon and the Northwest Territories. Matt focuses on human resource, free expression, constitutional, and administrative law. He has appeared at all levels of Court in Alberta on matters ranging from the constitutional right to equality, to free expression in the media and on post-secondary campuses, open courts, and privacy law. Matt clerked with the Alberta Court of Appeal and Court of Queen’s Bench before articling with RMRF. He also taught Communications Law at MacEwan University for 10 years, and provides pro-bono services to the Edmonton Community Legal Centre and the Civil Claims Duty Counsel Project.