Colleges and Universities as well as Women's Issues. In 2002, she was named Woman of the Year in Politics by the Hamilton Status of Women Committee. Bountrogianni was re-elected in the 2003 election, in which the Liberals won a majority. On October 23, 2003, she was named Minister of Children's Services and Minister of Citizenship and Immigration. In October 2004, Bountrogianni introduced and stewarded the passage of the AODA, the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act After a cabinet shuffle on June 29, 2005, Bountrogianni was named Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and Minister responsible for Democratic Renewal. She decided not to run for re-election in 2007, and was succeeded by another Liberal, Sophia Aggelonitis. Cabinet positions Provincial electoral record Federal attempt In 2011, she ran as the Liberal candidate in the 2011 federal election, finishing third behind Terry Anderson and the winner, New Democrat incumbent Chris Charlton. Federal electoral record After politics In 2007, she became President of the Royal Ontario Museum but stepped down in February 2011 (to run for federal parliament). From 2007 to 2012, she served on the Child and Youth Committee for the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC). In 2012, she was a professor at Ryerson’s G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education, where she performed research and taught political psychology courses. On July 1, 2013, she was appointed the interim Dean of the Chang School of Continuing Education. On April 23, 2014, she was named Dean of the Chang School of Continuing Education. She served as Dean until May 2019. She was appointed as Chair of the Board of Help Us Help in 2020, a foundation supporting orphans and vets in Ukraine. See also List of University of Waterloo people References External links Consul General Chen Xiaoling Visited Hon. Marie Bountrogianni, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration of the Province of Ontario Marie Bountrogianni: Laurier Library Images 1956 births Canadian people of Greek descent Women government ministers of Canada Candidates in the 2011 Canadian federal election Living people McMaster University faculty Members of the Executive Council of Ontario Ontario Liberal Party MPPs Politicians from Hamilton, Ontario University of Waterloo alumni University of Toronto alumni Wilfrid Laurier University faculty Women MPPs in Ontario 21st-century Canadian women politicians Liberal Party of Canada candidates for the Canadian House of Commons