New Brunswick Sen. Judith Keating, a ‘tireless advocate,’ has died at 58 – New Brunswick | Globalnews.ca

New Brunswick Sen. Judith Keating has died. She was 58 years old.

Keating was appointed to the Senate in January 2020 and sat with the Independent Senators Group.

She was a lawyer and constitutional expert who spent several decades as a senior civil servant in the New Brunswick, including as a legal adviser to the premier.

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She was also the first woman to be the deputy minister of justice and attorney general in that province.

In a statement, Senate Speaker George Furey called her a “tireless advocate.”

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