Chief Kim Baird
Director, BC Hydro
Appointed April 10, 2008
Chief Kim Baird's ancestral name is Kwuntiltunaat. She has served as elected Chief of the Tsawwassen First Nation since 1999.
Chief Baird successfully negotiated B.C.'s first urban treaty, a triumph that she saw through from beginning to end since she started work for Tsawwassen First Nation as a Land Claims Researcher in 1990. On December 6, 2007, history was made when Chief Baird signed Tsawwassen First Nation's first treaty in Ottawa on Parliament Hill.
She has the distinction of being the first aboriginal woman to address the BC Legislature on October 15, 2007 when the BC Treaty Legislation process was initiated.
