Her family also lived in the Manitoba towns of Elkhorn, Virden and Carberry, before moving to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1938.
[2] Carter graduated from Nutana Collegiate in 1941 and subsequently earned degrees in arts and law from the University of Saskatchewan.
She was called to the Saskatchewan bar in 1948[1] and opened a law practice with Peter Makaroff and her husband, Roger Carter.
[7][8] The journalistic focus on Carter's maternal status, as opposed to her superior academic and professional accomplishments, was the subject of later criticism.
In Marland v. Nelson,[11] she canvassed the jurisdiction of the court to vary an order under the Saskatchewan Matrimonial Property Act.