Sherri Walsh is the Ethics Commissioner for the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba. She is also Manitoba’s Lobbyist Registrar and Information and Privacy Adjudicator. She was appointed effective May 1, 2026.

Commissioner Walsh received her Bachelor of Arts in French Literature from the University of Winnipeg and her Bachelor of Laws from the University of Manitoba.

She has decades of experience as a litigator, adjudicator, arbitrator and commissioner where her practice covered a wide range of subjects including administrative law, human rights, securities litigation, treaty land entitlement matters and workplace and safe sport investigations.

She has presided as Chair of discipline hearings in the financial regulatory industry for the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (“CIRO”) and its predecessor organizations, served as an arbitrator under the Manitoba Framework Agreement for Treaty Land Entitlement, was a long standing adjudicator under the Human Rights Code of Manitoba and served for many years as a part time Chair of the Workers Compensation Appeal Commission.

She has published hundreds of decisions in these roles. From 2011 to 2013 she acted as Commission Counsel to the Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry - a large public inquiry conducted by the Honourable Ted Hughes. She was the City of Winnipeg’s first Integrity Commissioner and served in that role from 2017 until 2026.

She was also the province’s first Chief Adjudicator under the Manitoba Human Rights Code and the province’s first Municipal Codes of Conduct Appeals Director. Throughout her career, Commissioner Walsh has advanced the law in Manitoba in substantive and procedural ways, particularly in the areas of human rights, administrative law and public sector ethics.

She has been recognized for her work by receiving a number of awards including:

• The Manitoba Bar Association Pro Bono Public Interest Award
• The inaugural Human Rights Commitment Award co-sponsored by the Canadian Human Rights Commission, the Manitoba Human Rights Commission and the Community Legal Education Association and
• The inaugural Outstanding Alumni Award from the University of Manitoba Faculty of Law.

Outside the practice of law, she has maintained a deep commitment to the community, volunteering with and serving as a Director on the boards of a number of non-profit community-based organizations, including the foodbank Harvest Manitoba.