Marie Georgine Judith Keating ( Vallee; May 19, 1957 – July 15, 2021) was a Canadian

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, provincial civil servant, and

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from the province of

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, who also had a career in the

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. On January 30, 2020, Keating was nominated by

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to fill the vacant Senate seat in

, which had become vacant earlier in the month following the mandatory retirement of former Senator Paul McIntyre.

Career

Prior to being appointed to the Senate, Keating had served in various capacities with the government of New Brunswick, including as Chief Legislative Counsel, Chief Legal Advisor to the

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, the province's First Nations Representative, and a provincial chair of the working group on

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. She was the first woman to serve as Deputy Minister of Justice and Deputy Attorney General of New Brunswick. She was also, at the time of her appointment to the Senate, editor-in-chief of the Canadian Bar Association’s ''Solicitor’s Journal''. Keating died on July 15, 2021, at the age of 64 after a period of declining health.Judith Keating
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