Former lieutenant-governor Steven L. Point is going back to work as a provincial court judge.
Point was named to the bench along with Shannon Keyes to help ease caseload pressures, Justice Minister Suzanne Anton announced Thursday.
The former lieutenant-governor will start work in Abbotsford March 3, while Keyes takes her Prince George post Tuesday.
Point, who studied law at the University of B.C., became a judge in 1999, serving until 2005 when he became chief commissioner of the B.C. Treaty Process. He was B.C.’s lieutenant-governor from 2007 to 2012.
Keyes, a graduate of the University of Victoria, has been practising law for 26 years, most recently as a Crown counsel in Prince George.
