PEI's Famous Five Graduating Student Award

Beginning in May 2019, the PEI's Famous Five Graduating Student Award will be granted to a graduating student who has held a leadership role while a student at UPEI and/or plans to pursue a career in politics. Preference will be given to women students. This award honours five women who, in 1993, held five of the most influential positions in the province of Prince Edward Island: Premier Catherine Callbeck, Leader of the Opposition Pat Mella, Speaker of the House Nancy Guptill, Lieutenant Governor Marion Reid, and Deputy Premier Elizabeth Libbe Hubley. This was the first and last time in Canadian history that five women held these positions simultaneously. The award is established to encourage the next generation of women political leaders and is aligned with the work of the PEI Coalition for Women in Government, which works to increase women's leadership at all levels of government.