Judy Klassen is a Canadian provincial politician, who was interim leader of the Manitoba Liberal Party,[1] from October 2016 to June 2017, succeeding Rana Bokhari.
She defeated incumbent New Democratic Party (NDP) MLA and Deputy Premier Eric Robinson in a closely contested race.
[2] In April 2019, Klassen announced she would not be seeking re-election in Keewatinook, instead seeking the federal Liberal nomination for the riding of Churchill—Keewatinook Aski in the 2019 federal election.
However, she lost by an over two-to-one margin to incumbent Niki Ashton of the NDP.
Klassen grew up in St. Theresa Point First Nation and has a business studies diploma from Red River College in Steinbach.