Barbara Frum

Barbara Frum (born March 14, 1945) is a former Laurentian politician. She served as the president of St. Lawrence from 2004 to 2012. She was the fourth woman president of the country. Before that, she went into the field of journalism, working as a reporter for WBBM-TV from 1976 to 1982. When Frum first went to the field of politics, she served as mayor of the city of her birthplace, Johnston, from 1983 to 1991; then became a provincial senator from 1991 to 1997; then to the federal Senate from 1997 to 2000, and as Vice President under Theodore Legarda from 2000 until his assassination in 2004.