Education
Kennedy studied at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton where he earned a Bachelor of Science before going on to earn his Doctor of Medicine degree from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Kennedy studied at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton where he earned a Bachelor of Science before going on to earn his Doctor of Medicine degree from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Kennedy served as a village councillor for Perth-Andover and was chairman of the District 31 School Board. A practising physician in his hometown area, he was chief and president of the medical staff at Hotel-Dieu Saint-Joseph, and a director of the New Brunswick Medical Society. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in 1987 and re-elected in 1991, 1995, a 1997 by-election, 1999, 2003 and 2006.
He was currently Dean of the House from 2006 to 2010.
He represented the electoral district of Victoria-Tobique until his defeat in the 2010 election and also practices medicine as a family physician.