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A Calgary woman stole more than $1 million from her employer over nearly a decade, primarily by using her position as social club treasurer.

In a statement of agreed facts made a court exhibit Thursday, Linda Louise Miller admitted defrauding $1,422,889.86 from Trimac Transportation Services between 2005 and her firing in 2013.

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The document, signed by Miller, her lawyer, Lori MacKay, and Crown prosecutor Brian Kiers, was presented to provincial court Judge Allan Fradsham to support her guilty plea to fraud.

“Miller had been with Trimac for approximately 21 years when the fraud was discovered,” the statement said.

“At that time she was an assistant manager in the accounts receivable department and her primary duty was to oversee incoming payment from Trimac’s clients and ensure they were posted to the proper accounts.”

In April, 2004, Miller also took on the role as treasurer for the company’s social club — which held an account with CIBC to pay for social events, gifts and miscellaneous reimbursements for employees, and required two signatures to be drawn on.

“Ms. Miller was one of the executives with signing authority (on the account),” the exhibit said.

Her criminal behaviour was discovered in April 2013, when she asked the social club’s vice-president to sign blank cheques to reimburse another employee for expenses related to an office move.