of human rights issues, as well as providing guidance to Commission members regarding such functions as their tribunal hearings, and to the Commission director regarding the overall objective of the Commission. Section 15 of the Alberta Human Rights Act provides that the Chief and members are appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council. The current Chief of the Commission and Tribunals is Kathryn Oviatt, who was appointed in November 2022. Prior to October 2009, the position was simply referred to as the Chief Commissioner. Previous chiefs include: Dr. Evaristus A. Oshionebo – September 2022 – November 2022 Collin May – July 2022 – September 2022 Kathryn Oviatt – January 2022 – July 2022 Michael Gottheil – August 2018 – January 2022 William D. McFetridge (acting) – August 2017 – August 2018 Robert A. Philp – July 1, 2014 – June 30, 2017 David Blair Mason – 2009–2014 Brenda F. Scragg (acting) – 2008–2009 Charlach Mackintosh – 1994–2008 Jack O'Neil – 1993–1994 Fil B. Fraser – 1989–1992 Stan Scudder – 1986–1989 Marlene Antonio – 1981–1986 Bob Lundrigan – 1979–1981 Max Wyman – 1973–1979 , members of the Commission are: Nduka Ahanonu Sandra Badejo Faraz Bawa Doris Bonora, K.C. Samuel Crowfoot Cynthia Dickins Jessica Gill Teresa Haykowsky Duncan Marsden Ali Memon D. Jean Munn, K.C. Evaristus Oshionebo Kathryn Oviatt Erika Ringseis Karen Scott Wilma Shim Salimah Walji-Shivji, K.C. Nathalie Whyte Tribunal The quasi-judicial Tribunal office is the independent adjudicative arm of the Alberta Human Rights Commission. Members of the Tribunal are neither employees of the Government of Alberta or the Commission; they are private citizens appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council. Controversial decisions Mihaly v The Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta Since 1999, Ladislav Mihaly, who trained as an engineer in Czechoslovakia in the 1970s, has sought accreditation as an engineer in Alberta, but the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA) said that he did not meet its requirements. He refused to submit to any of the technical examinations but did take a required ethics examination—and failed it, twice. Almost a quarter of Alberta's engineers are immigrants who submitted to the same examinations that Mihaly refused or failed. In 2008, he took his case to the Alberta Human Rights Commission, which ruled in February 2014 that APEGA must pay Mihaly $10,000, provide him with a personal mentor and form a committee to re-evaluate his credentials.