JoAnne L. Buth (born May 23, 1954) is a Canadian retired politician. She was appointed to the

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by Governor General David Johnston on the advice of Prime Minister

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on January 6, 2012, replacing the retired Sharon Carstairs. She sat as a Conservative. She retired from the Senate on August 10, 2014 in order to become CEO of the Canadian International Grains Institute, a group that promotes Canadian field crops. She has a

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in biology from the University of Winnipeg and an

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from the University of Manitoba. Buth's background in agriculture includes stints as a research and development manager with DowElanco Canada and as an information officer for the federal agriculture department's research station in Winnipeg. More recently she worked in

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as a manager and weed management specialist in Manitoba's provincial ministry of agriculture. Prior to her Senate appointment, she was president of the Canola Council of Canada, a lobby group for the canola industry.

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Senate biography
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