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Janelle Anderson
Associate
Janelle is an associate corporate and commercial lawyer in the firm’s Saskatoon office.
Education & Qualifications
- GCB.D (Competent Boards, 2023)
- GPC.D (Governance Professionals of Canada, 2022)
- Regulatory Compliance and Legal Risk Management for Financial Institutions Certification (Osgoode Hall, York University, 2019)
- Saskatchewan Bar (2015)
- JD (University of Saskatchewan, 2014)
- BA (University of Saskatchewan, 2010)
Languages
More about me
Janelle is a member of the firm’s Corporate and Commercial group. Her practice focuses on commercial contracting, procurement, major projects, governance, transactions, corporate structuring and regulatory compliance. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Governance Professionals of Canada and previously served as Crown Counsel to the Government of Saskatchewan Ministry of Justice, where she advanced several public policy initiatives. Janelle also previously served as a member of the executive team at a Schedule 1 Bank overseeing governance and regulatory compliance and has practiced law at other mid-sized Saskatoon law firms.
Janelle holds the Designated Governance Professional (GPC.D) certification from the Governance Professionals of Canada, the ESG Global Competent Boards Designation (GCB.D) from Competent Boards and a Regulatory Compliance and Legal Risk Management for Financial Institutions Certificate from Osgoode Hall Law School. She earned her Juris Doctor (2014) and Bachelor of Arts in Regional and Urban Planning (2010) from the University of Saskatchewan.
- Board Member, Governance Professionals of Canada (2025–present)
- Member, Governance Professionals of Canada (2020–present)
- Member, Institute of Corporate Directors (2020–present)
- Member, Law Society of Saskatchewan (2015–present)
- Director, GRC Chair, Friends of the Broadway Theatre (2020–2021)
- Committee Member, Chief Justice of Canada’s National Action Committee on Access to Civil and Family Justice (2016–2018)
- Board Member, PLEA (2017–2018)
- Member, Saskatchewan Access to Justice Working Group (2016–2018)
- Board Member, Children’s Wish Foundation Saskatchewan Chapter Advisory Board (2016–2018)
- Committee Member, Dean’s Forum on Access to Justice Steering Committee (2013–2015)
- Saskatchewan Law Review (2013)
- LAC Coordinator, CLASSIC (2012–2013)
