Heather May Klimchuk ECA (born August 10, 1958) is a Canadian politician who was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Edmonton-Glenora as a Progressive Conservative, from 2008 to 2015.
In the 2011 PC leadership election Klimchuk supported Gary Mar,[2] who was defeated by Alison Redford.
Klimchuk was re-elected by a more comfortable margin in the 2012 election and was named Minister of Human Services on September 15, 2014 in the first cabinet of Jim Prentice.
Her father worked on Premier Peter Lougheed's first electoral campaign and was a classmate of Joe Clark's at law school.
[9] Klimchuk holds a bachelor of arts (special) from the University of Alberta in political science.