Annamarie Castrilli

Who is Annamarie Castrilli?

Annamarie Castrilli is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. A lawyer, and university lecturer, she sat on several boards of directors, including being the chair of the University of Toronto's Governing Council. She was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 1995 Ontario general election as a Liberal, and served as a Member of Provincial Parliament through June 1999. In 1996, she ran for the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party, but finished sixth. After losing a nomination battle in her newly constituted constituency, she crossed the floor to the governing Progressive Conservatives on the day the 1999 Ontario general election was called. She ran in that campaign as a Conservative candidate in Parkdale—High Park, but lost to one of her fellow Liberal leadership contenders, Gerard Kennedy. She has not run for public office since.