{"id":11806,"date":"2024-01-22T09:40:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T14:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/?page_id=11806"},"modified":"2025-10-14T14:59:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:59:02","slug":"the-right-honourable-david-johnston","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/honorary-degree-guidelines-and-nominations\/the-right-honourable-david-johnston\/","title":{"rendered":"His Excellency The Right Honourable David Johnston"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        His Excellency The Right Honourable David Johnston\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"168\" height=\"204\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/The-Right-Honourable-David-Johnston.png\" alt=\"The Right Honourable David Johnston\" class=\"wp-image-11807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/The-Right-Honourable-David-Johnston.png 168w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/The-Right-Honourable-David-Johnston-160x194.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, the 28th Governor General of Canada, was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 9:30 a.m. ceremony on Tuesday, June 7, &#8220;in recognition of his successful career as an educator, brilliant leader of many post-secondary institutions and his service to Canada as Governor General.&#8221;<br>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Johnston has dedicated his life to public service. A strong believer in both equality of opportunity and excellence, he spent most of his career in higher education as a professor and later administrator at several of Canada\u2019s leading universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Johnston has focused his mandate on strengthening learning and innovation, philanthropy and volunteerism, and families and children. Since his installation as governor general in October 2010, he has travelled widely across Canada and around the world, connecting, honouring and inspiring Canadians and their global partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aasCr37c1sU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WATCH THE AWARD CEREMONY OF The Right Honourable David Johnston<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, the 28th Governor General of Canada, was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 9:30 a.m. ceremony on Tuesday, June 7, &#8220;in recognition of his successful career as an educator, brilliant leader of many post-secondary institutions and his service to Canada as Governor General.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":340,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-11806","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11806"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13555,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11806\/revisions\/13555"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=11806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}