Rose-Marie Losier-Cool

The Honourable Rose-Marie Losier-Cool
Speaker Pro Tempore of the Senate of Canada
In office November 17, 1999 – October 7, 2002
Speaker	Gildas Molgat Dan Hays
Preceded by	Gerry Ottenheimer
Succeeded by	Lucie Pépin
Government Whip in the Senate
In office January 15, 2004 – February 5, 2006
Prime Minister	Jean Chrétien
Leader	Jack Austin
Preceded by	Bill Rompkey
Succeeded by	Terry Stratton
Canadian Senator from Tracadie
In office March 21, 1995 – June 18, 2012
Nominated by	Jean Chrétien
Appointed by	Roméo LeBlanc
Preceded by	Roméo LeBlanc
Succeeded by	Paul McIntyre
Personal details
Born	(1937-06-18) June 18, 1937 (age 87) Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada
Political party	Liberal

Rose-Marie Losier-Cool (born June 18, 1937) is a retired Canadian Senator for New Brunswick.

A member of New Brunswick's Acadian community, Losier-Cool worked as a teacher for thirty-three years, two decades of which were spent at École secondaire Népisiguit in Bathurst, New Brunswick.

She was elected the first woman president of the Association des enseignantes et des enseignants francophones du Nouveau-Brunswick in 1983 and has sat on the board of directors of the Canadian Teachers' Federation. She was awarded the Teacher of the Year Award for non-sexist teaching by the government of New Brunswick in 1993. In 1994–95, she was Vice-President of the New Brunswick Advisory Council on the Status of Women.

Losier-Cool was appointed to the Senate on March 21, 1995 on the advice of then Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chrétien and sits as a Liberal. In January 2004, she was appointed Government Whip in the Senate, the first woman ever to hold this role. Loisier-Cool left the Senate upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75 on June 18, 2012.

External links

• Rose-Marie Losier-Cool – Parliament of Canada biography
• Liberal Senate Forum