Janet Epp Buckingham serves the Director, Law and Public Policy for the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada. In this capacity, she addresses government and the courts on a wide variety of issues from an evangelical Christian perspective; including religious freedom, marriage and family, sanctity of life and care for the vulnerable in our society.
Dr. Buckingham writes regular commentaries for the Christian and secular press as well as being interviewed on Canada AM, CBC Newsworld, Sunday Morning (CBC) and Christian radio and television. Her life and work have been featured in Salvation Army's Catherine magazine, Canadian Lawyer Magazine , the Ottawa Citizen and Concept-Femme ( Switzerland ).
In 1986 Dr. Buckingham received her LL.B. from Dalhousie University . She clerked for Mr. Justice Barry Strayer of the Federal Court from 1986-1987. She has been called to the bar and practiced law in Nova Scotia and Ontario . Dr. Buckingham completed her LL.D. at the University of Stellenbosch , South Africa in 1998, with a dissertation comparing religious freedom in Canada and South Africa . She also has several academic publications in Canada and South Africa on religious freedom.
Dr. Buckingham currently resides in Ottawa , Canada with her husband and two children.