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Ms. Heather Howe
Member, National Board of Directors
The Arthritis Society

Heather Howe is a corporate lawyer who practiced with McCarthy Tetrault for approximately 18 years until January 2000. She was a partner specializing in securities law applicable to investment funds. She is currently active in charitable and not-for-profit activities. Heather is the Past-Chair of the Board of The Arthritis Society, Ontario Division, and a member of the National Board of Directors. She is a member oftheBoard of Bishop Strachan School and a member of the Governance Committee. She is also a Trustee of the Art Gallery of Ontario Foundation, and a member of its audit committee. In addition she is working part-time as a legal consultant to a copyright collective organization, AVLA.

Heather grew up in Ottawa and attended Carleton University, receiving her Hons. B.A. in 1974 prior to working for National Museums of Canada for four years. She attended Osgoode Hall Law School from 1978 to 1981 and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1983. She qualified to practice in New York State in 1985, while working for Debevoise & Plimpton in New York City.

Heather is married to Greg A. Reed and has two children, Erik Reed in Grade 12 at Royal St. George's College and Katherine Reed is in Grade 10 at Bishop Strachan School.

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