Eleanor Clitheroe-Bell

Eleanor Ruth Clitheroe, MBA , LL.M , LL.B, M.Div (born January 29, 1954) is a Canadian cleric and former businesswoman.

Born in Montreal, Clitheroe earned her LL.B from the University of Western Ontario (UWO) in 1977. In 1978 she earned her LL.M from McGill University, and earned her MBA from UWO in 1980. In 2005, she obtained a Master of Divinity,from Wycliffe College. She is a candidate for a PHD Theology at University of Toronto.

She articled at the Tory, Tory DesLauriers & Binnington law firm in Toronto, and worked for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. She was Ontario's deputy minister of finance under the New Democratic Party from 1990 to 1993. She then became a vice-president of Ontario Hydro, and served as president and CEO when its name was changed to Hydro One. In 2000, she became chancellor of University of Western Ontario.

In 2002 she was named Business Woman of the Year by the National PostShe later commenced a lawsuit against the utility for severance and pension compensation, after legislation was passed by the Conservative government retroactively reducing pension. This lawsuit was dismissed by the Ontario Superior Court on June 26, 2009 saying, "In short, the Legislature within its jurisdiction can do everything that is not naturally impossible,and is restrained by no rule human or divine...prohibition "Thou shalt not steal," has no legal force upon the sovereign body and there would be no necessity for compensation to be given.

From 2000 until 2004 she was chancellor of the University of Western Ontario. In 2005, she was ordained a deacon in the Anglican Church of Canada, and later that year, was priested. She is executive director of Prison Fellowship Canada, and assistant curate at St. Cuthbert's, Oakville, Ontario. She is known to her parishioners as "Reverend Ellie".

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Academic offices
Preceded by Peter Godsoe	Chancellor of the University of Western Ontario 2000–2004	Succeeded by Arthur Labatt