Robert Wayne Mitchell

Robert Wayne "Bob" Mitchell (March 29, 1936 – November 18, 2016) was a lawyer and former political figure in Saskatchewan, Canada. He represented Saskatoon Fairview from 1986 to 1999 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a New Democratic Party (NDP) member.

Biography He was born in Preeceville, Saskatchewan in 1936, From 1970 to 1974, he served as Director of Legal Services for the federal Department of Regional Economic Expansion and the federal Department of Labour in Ottawa. Mitchell was Deputy Minister of Labour in Saskatchewan from 1974 to 1979. He then practised law in Saskatoon. From 1981 to 1982, he was chief negotiator for the Canadian government for Inuit land claims in the central and eastern Arctic.

Mitchell ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the provincial assembly in 1982 before being elected in 1986. He served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Human Resources, Labour and Employment, as Provincial Secretary, as Minister of Justice and Attorney General, as Minister of Labour and as Minister of Post-Secondary Education and Skills Training. He retired from the Commission on October 1, 2014, and was replaced as Chair by Brent Cotter. In 2017, he was posthumously made a member of the Saskatchewan Order of Merit.

Mitchell died in 2016, at the age of 80.