Members of the Board of Directors

Mitchell Holash, KC

Chair

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Mitchell Holash, KC

For more than 30 years, Mitchell has dedicated himself to the enhancement of our provincial community as a successful and active lawyer in many high profile litigations, arbitrations and public hearings; and as a community volunteer. In 2010, he was awarded the professional distinction of Queen's Counsel.

He has served as Chair of the Saskatchewan Police Commission, and as a professional representative on Saskatchewan Justice's Northern Justice Review Committee.

In 2009, Mitchell was appointed provincially to the Lieutenant Governor's Saskatchewan Honours Advisory Council (currently serving as its Chair) and nationally to the Oversight Committee for the Indian Residential School Adjudication Secretariat. He was named to the Board of Directors of the SaskPower Corporation in 2010 by Order in Council, and chaired its HR and Labour Relations Committee. In 2015, he was appointed Board Chair for the Saskatchewan Transportation Company.

Mitchell was appointed provincially to the Saskatchewan Arts Board (2003-09). He also served as the founding Chair of the Prince Albert Arts Board (1995-2012), the inaugural Chair of the E.A. Rawlinson Centre for the Arts Governance Committee (2003-2012), Chair of the Alfred Jenkins Soccer Field House Project (2007-2010), Chair of the project funding for the reconstruction of the Art Hauser Centre Arena (2005-2006), and as a founding director of the Wanisca First Nations Arts Festival (2007). Mitchell was an active executive member for the Board of the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame, as well as Chair of its Induction Selection Committee (1997-2000). He is a trustee of the Saskatchewan Foundation for the Arts (2007-present) and a founding director of the Saskatchewan Health Excellence Awards (2003-present).

Named Prince Albert's Citizen of the Year (2003), Mitchell was also distinguished with the Saskatchewan Association of Community Planners Community Development Award (2004), the Saskatchewan Centennial Medal (2005), the Lieutenant Governor's Saskatchewan Volunteer Medal (2006), and the Prince Albert Sportsman of the Year Award (2014).

Mitchell and his wife, Sheila, reside in Prince Albert and enjoy together three sons.

Appointed January 24, 2018