The Speaker of the Alberta Legislative Assembly, is the presiding officer in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. The Speaker is selected by secret ballot in the first session of a new legislative assembly. ## List of speakers[edit] Affiliation | Name | Years served | | | Liberal | Charles W. Fisher | 1905–1919 | Liberal | Charles Pingle | 1920–1922 | United Farmers | Oran McPherson | 1922–1926 | United Farmers | George Johnston | 1926–1936 | Social Credit | Nathan Eldon Tanner | 1936–1937 | Social Credit | Peter Dawson | 1937–1963 | Social Credit | Arthur J. Dixon | 1963–1972 | Progressive Conservative | Gerard Amerongen | 1972–1986 | Progressive Conservative | David J. Carter | 1986–1993 | Progressive Conservative | Stanley Schumacher | 1993–1997 | Progressive Conservative | Ken Kowalski | 1997–2012 | Progressive Conservative | Gene Zwozdesky | 2012–2015 | New Democratic | Bob Wanner | 2015–2019 | United Conservative | Nathan Cooper | 2019–Present ## See also[edit] * Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada * Speaker of the Senate of Canada ## External links[edit] * Alberta Legislative Assembly List of Speakers * History of the Speakers of the Assembly Hansard May 16, 2006[permanent dead link] Order of precedence Preceded by Former Premiers of Alberta | Order of precedence in Alberta | Succeeded by Ambassadors and High Commissioners accredited to Canada * v * t * e Speaker of the Legislative Assembly (by province or territory) Provinces| * Alberta * British Columbia * Manitoba * New Brunswick * Newfoundland and Labrador * Nova Scotia * Ontario * Prince Edward Island * Quebec * Saskatchewan Territories| * Northwest Territories * Nunavut * Yukon * Category * Canada portal * v * t * e Politics of Alberta Lieutenant Governor| * Salma Lakhani * Former lieutenant governors Premier| * Danielle Smith (Premiership) * Former Premiers * List of Premiers by time in office Legislature| * Current assembly * Former legislatures * Executive Council (Cabinet) * Speaker of the Assembly * Nathan Cooper * Opposition Leader * Rachel Notley * Former Opposition Leaders Political parties| * United Conservative * Danielle Smith * New Democratic * Rachel Notley * Alberta Party * Barry Morishita * Alberta Advantage * Marilyn Burns * Communist * Naomi Rankin * Green * Jordan Wilkie * Independence * Artur Pawlowski * Liberal * John Roggeveen * Reform * Randy Thorsteinson * Wildrose Independence * Jeevan Singh Mangat Elections| * 30th general election (2019) * Past elections * Electoral districts * Other Canadian politics: * Federal * AB * BC * MB * NB * NL * NS * ON * PE * QC * SK * NT * NU * YU * v * t * e Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta North-West Territories| * Wilson * Ross * Betts * Eakin * Gillis Alberta| * Fisher * Pingle * McPherson * Johnston * Tanner * Dawson * Dixon * Amerongen * Carter * Schumacher * Kowalski * Zwozdesky * Wanner * Cooper This Alberta-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | * v * t * e *[v]: View this template *[t]: Discuss this template *[e]: Edit this template