Doreen Redhead was appointed to the Provincial Court of Manitoba

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 on April 5, 2007.

Judge Redhead was graduated from the University of Manitoba

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 Law School in 1996. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts in sociology

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. She articled with Lofchick, Jones & Associates in Winnipeg

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 and practised law on behalf of the Fox Lake First Nation in Gillam

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 and the Keewatin Tribal Council

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 in Thompson

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.

She was the first First Nations

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woman appointed to the bench in Manitoba.

Judge Redhead has served on a number of boards, including the Keewatin Housing Association and Broadband Communications North, and has been actively involved in a number of other committees and associations.