Wally Oppal was appointed Attorney General and Minister Responsible for Multiculturalism on June 16, 2005.

He was elected to represent the riding of Vancouver-Fraserview in 2005.

Mr. Oppal was born in Vancouver and focused his academic and professional endeavours on improving social justice and community safety. He attended UBC law school and practiced law for 14 years in Vancouver.

Mr. Oppal was appointed to the County Court of British Columbia in 1981, and to the Supreme Court of British Columbia in 1985. In 2003, he was appointed to the British Columbia Court of Appeal.

Mr. Oppal's passion for and commitment to the Canadian legal system has followed him through a variety of positions including: president of the Law Courts Education Society of British Columbia, member of the 1993 Ad Hoc Advisory Committee for a National Strategy on Community Safety and Crime Prevention, director of the B.C. Coalition for Safer Communities, and member of the Supreme Court National Criminal Law Programme Judges Criminal Law Committee. He also authored the Independent Commission of Inquiry into Policing in British Columbia.

Mr. Oppal is married and has two children, both of whom are in school.