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M.E. Thompson 211the founding Chair in 2001. She received the CRM–SSC Prize in 2003 for herwork on inference for over-dispersed generalized linear models, the analysis ofrecurrent event data, and spatial and spatio-temporal modelling for diseasemapping. In 2002, Dr. Dean was President of WNAR, the Western NorthAmerican Region of the Biometric Society; she was also President of the SSC in2006–07 and is currently Dean of the Faculty of Science at Western University,London, Ontario.Another example is Shelley Bull, a graduate of the University of Waterlooand Western University in Ontario. As a faculty member in biostatistics inthe Samuel Lunenfeld Institute of Mount Sinai General Hospital, in Toronto,she became interested in research in statistical genetics in the 1990s. Whenthe Networks of Centres of Excellence MITACS (Mathematics of InformationTechnology for Complex Systems) began in 1999, Dr. Bull became the leaderof a national team pursuing research at the interface of statistics and genetics,in both modeling and analysis, with emphasis on diseases such as breast cancerand diabetes. The cohesiveness of the group of statistical genetics researchersin Canada owes much of its origin to her project.I am proud to count myself among the builders, having chaired the Departmentof Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloofrom 1996 to 2000. Besides Charmaine Dean and myself, other women instatistics who have chaired departments include Nancy Reid (Toronto), NancyHeckman (UBC), Karen Campbell (Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Western),Cyntha Struthers (St. Jerome’s), Sylvia Esterby (UBC Okanagan) and ChristianeLemieux (Waterloo).Nadia Ghazzali, formerly at Université Laval, has held since 2006 theNSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering (Québec Region). Sheis the first woman statistician to become President of a university in Canada.She was appointed Rector of the Université duQuébec àTrois-Rivières in2012.Since the late 1990s, the SSC has had an active Committee on Women inStatistics, which sponsors events at the SSC annual meetings jointly with theCanadian Section of the Caucus for Women in Statistics. Cyntha Strutherswas both the founding Chair of the Caucus section, in 1987–89, and Chair ofthe SSC Committee on Women in Statistics in 1998–2000.For professional leadership, an early example was Nicole P.-Gendreau ofthe Bureau de la statistique du Québec (which has since become the Institutde la statistique du Québec). Mme Gendreau was Public Relations Officer inthe Statistical Society of Canada from 1986 to 1989. She was the founder of theNewsletter, SSC Liaison, the chief communication vehicle of the communityin Canada, now in online and print versions, and still very much in keepingwith her original vision.The process of developing SSC Accreditation was brought to fruition in2003–04 (when I was President of the SSC) under the dedicated leadershipof Judy-Anne Chapman, now at Queen’s University. (At least 30 of the 140PStat holders to date are women.) As Chair of the SSC Education Committee,