Career
During her time in the Alberta Legislature she served in the Executive Council of Alberta from 1986 to 1989. Cripps ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature for the first time in the 1979 Alberta general election. She was easily re-elected in the 1982 Alberta general election with a larger plurality defeating two other candidates.
She was run for her third and final term in the 1986 Alberta general election.
After the election she was appointed Associate Minister of Agriculture by Premier Don Getty. She served that until her retirement at the dissolution of the Legislature in 1989.