Shelagh M’Gonigle is a retired civil servant with the Federal-Provincial Relations Office, the Department of Communications (minority access) and a women’s specialist for the Canadian Human Rights Commission. She co-owned and managed a small residential construction and renovation company. Shelagh was a municipal councillor and served on numerous boards including the Women’s Legal and Educational Fund (Ottawa President and national executive member), Ottawa Ballet, Elizabeth Fry Society, Vanier Institute of the Family of Canada (chair of the fundraising and investment committees).  She is a member of the Ottawa Anglican Diocesan Synod and served three terms on its Executive Committee and chair of the Friends of the Diocesan Archives fundraising campaign. Shelagh sat on the Diocesan Episcopal Commission on the Delivery of Ministry, the Task Force on the Implications of the Blessings of Same Sex Unions, the Second Century Fund (planned giving) Committee, and chaired the Anglican Studies Program Advisory Committee at St. Paul’s University, Ottawa. In her parish, Shelagh chaired the Task Force on Barrier Free Access and co-chaired the Starfish Initiative for refugee sponsorship and integration. She serves as a member of the Diocese’s Investment Committee and the Sierra Club of Canada Foundation. Shelagh sponsors two orphans, Masimphane and Nthomeng, whom she befriended as a HL volunteer in Lesotho, 2004.