Mona Duckett practices criminal defence and related administrative law in Edmonton with the firm Dawson Stevens Duckett & Shaigec, Barristers. She received her Bachelor of Laws from the University of Alberta in 1983 and was admitted to the Alberta Bar the following year.

Mona was a Bencher of the Law Society of Alberta from 2000 to 2006, serving as President in 2006. She has been a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers since 2003, and is a current member and past president of the Criminal Trial Lawyers Association.

Mona has also been a Bar Admission Course instructor in criminal law since 1987, and a member of the Faculty of the National Criminal Law Program since 2000.