Five luminaries to receive honorary degrees at spring convocation

A business and public leader focused on developing innovative solutions to the challenges of poverty, economic opportunity and quality of life,she is the former executive vice-chair of Magna International Inc., where she also served on the board of directors and as the company's president and CEO.

Stronach entered politics in 2004 after having been one of the key individuals involved in uniting the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative parties. She subsequently ran for the national leadership of the new Conservative Party and was elected to the House of Commons in 2004 as a Conservative MP.

In 2005 she joined the Liberal Party and served as an MP for Newmarket-Aurora until October, 2008, holding three cabinet positions in that time.

During his 10 years as music director of the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, Russell has fostered unprecedented growth and invigorated the musical life of the Windsor-Essex region. He is widely considered North America's leader in orchestral educational programming and from 1997 to 2009 conducted the "LinkUP!" educational concert series at Carnegie Hall.

He has forged performance partnerships with the University of Windsor School of Music, the Windsor Centre for the Creative Arts and dozens of choral, dance and performing ensembles throughout the community. Since the creation of his One Community - One Symphony project in 2008, he has worked with more than 1,000 teenagers in school music programs and his concerts have engaged more than 100,000 students and teachers in Essex, Lambton and Kent counties.

He was the national managing partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Canada, and served as Global Leader of the organization's Middle Market practice until 2007. He has been a director of SMART Technologies Inc. since 2010 and a member of the board of directors for Hydro One Inc. since 2007.

Mueller currently sits on the board of the Windsor-Essex Economic Development Commission and the Ontario Ministry of Finance Economic Advisory Panel.

He served as president and chair of the Windsor Symphony Society; president of the Better Business Bureau of Windsor; director of the Rotary Club of Windsor; president of the Cerebral Palsy Association of Windsor and Essex County; and was a member of the Stratford Festival's board of governors.

She is the only captain to lead a Canadian hockey team to two Olympic gold medals — in Salt Lake City in 2002 and Turin in 2006 — and also received a silver medal at the Nagano Olympics in 1998.

Campbell-Pascall was captain of Canada's national women's hockey team from 2001 to her retirement in 2006, making her the longest-serving captain in Canadian hockey history. In 2007, she became the first female hockey player elected to the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame.

She was the first woman to provide colour commentary on Hockey Night in Canada and currently works as an on-air analyst for The Sports Network's women's hockey coverage, as well as providing colour commentary for the Score, the NHL Network and Hockey Night in Canada.

He has served as a judge for the Court of Appeal for Ontario since 1999 and served previously as a member of the Ontario Court of Justice.

He was dean of the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law from 1990 to 1995 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1991.

He has written several books, including The Law of Habeas Corpus; The Last Day, the Last Hour: The Currie Libel Trial; Injunctions and Specific Performance; The Charter of Rights and Freedoms (with Katherine Swinton and Kent Roach); Brian Dickson: A Judge’s Journey (with Kent Roach); and The Persons Case: The Origins and Legacy of the Fight for Legal Personhood (with Patricia McMahon).