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Stephanie McLean, an NDP cabinet minister from Calgary, will not seek re-election in 2019.

McLean, minister for Service Alberta and status of women, said the decision not to run again was not easy, but she is eager to pursue her legal practice.

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“Serving the people of Calgary-Varsity and working in the Notley government has been, and remains, an enormous honour,” she said in a statement Thursday.

“At the same time, my life’s ambition has been the law. And as a young lawyer, I am eager to pursue my practice. I have no doubt that all I have learned and come to appreciate in government will make me a better lawyer advancing the cause of justice in a meaningful, if less public, way.”

McLean was elected on May 5, 2015. Before serving as an MLA, she started a small business practising law and later partnered to create GTM LLP, where she practised family and criminal litigation, according to her biography on the province’s website.