Kathlyn Mary Curtis was appointed to the

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on March 1, 2001. Curtis gained her law degree from the

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in 1988. A period with the Prosecutions Branch was followed by her appointment as a

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. She presided over the

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court, hearing guilty pleas and contested matters primarily related to highway traffic offences. She has also worked as a

probation officer A probation or parole officer is an official appointed or sworn to investigate, report on, and supervise the conduct of convicted offenders on probation or those released from incarceration to community supervision such as parole. Most probat ...

, a juvenile counsellor at the Manitoba Youth Centre, a

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and a

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