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'''Anne Helen Russell''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|CM|KC}} (born May 22, 1940) is a former judge<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Canada|first=Supreme Court of|date=2001-01-01|title=Supreme Court of Canada – SCC Case Information – Search|url=https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/1607/index.do|access-date=2022-02-03|website=scc-csc.lexum.com}}</ref> on the [[Alberta Court of Appeal]].

== Life ==
Russell was born Anne Helen Lucas in [[Winnipeg, Manitoba|Winnipeg]] and studied law at the [[University of Alberta]]. She was appointed to the [[Provincial Court of Alberta]] in 1984, to the [[Alberta Court of Queen's Bench|Court of Queen's Bench]] in 1992, and to the Court of Appeal in 1994. She served until her retirement in 2006. She is one of the few Alberta judges who have served on all three courts in the province.

One of the most famous judgements she delivered was on the case of [[Vriend v. Alberta|Vriend versus Alberta]]<ref name=":0" /> that she presided over on the Court of Queen's Bench. The case involved a dismissal of a teacher because of his [[sexual orientation]]. She found in favour of Vriend – a decision that was overturned by the Court of Appeal, but which then proceeded to the [[Supreme Court of Canada]], where Russell's original ruling was upheld.

She currently lives in [[Victoria, British Columbia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gg.ca/en/order-canada-recipients-june-2022|title=Order of Canada appointees - June 2022 |date=21 June 2022 |access-date=2022-06-30}}</ref>

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