John Roggeveen
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John Roggeveen (b. 1960,Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian lawyer and politician from Alberta who ran in the 2004 Alberta provincial election for the Alberta Liberal Party in the constituency of Calgary Shaw, finishing second.
After graduating from Archbishop O’Leary High School in Edmonton, Alberta in 1978, he attended the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, graduating in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science (Honours), first class, in psychology. From there, he went on to attend law school at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, obtaining his Bachelor of Laws in 1986.
After graduating from law school, he articled with the downtown Calgary law firm, Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer, and was admitted to the Alberta bar in 1987. He remained as an associate at Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer until 1989, after which he joined the McLeod & Company law firm in south Calgary. He left McLeod & Company in 1995.
In 1996, he started his own law practice, and in 1997 joined McConnell MacInnes Graham where he remained until early in 2002, to set up his practice in the Midnapore area of Calgary.
He has been President of the Calgary Shaw Provincial Liberal Association of the Alberta Liberal Party since 2004 and Vice-president of the Calgary Southeast riding association for the Liberal Party of Canada since 2005. He was co-campaign manager for James Ludwar, the Liberal Party of Canada's candidate in Calgary Southeast in the 2006 federal election in Canada.
He is a member of the Canadian Bar Association and the Alberta Civil Trial Lawyers Association.
