Chief Justice of Quebec

The title of Chief Justice of Quebec (French: Juge en chef du Québec) is assumed by the chief justice of the Court of Appeal of Quebec.

Province of Quebec (1763-1791)
Lower Canada (1791-1841)
Part of the Province of Canada (1841-1867)
A province of the Dominion of Canada (1867-1931)
A province of Canada (since 1931)

Name	Portrait	Start[1]	End
William Gregory[2]		1764	1766
William Hey[3][4]		3 February 1766	27 September 1774
Peter Livius[5][6]		August 1776	1786
William Smith[7][8]		2 November 1786	6 December 1793 (Died in office)
William Osgoode[9][10]		24 February 1794	1 May 1802
John Elmsley[11]		29 October 1802	29 April 1805
Henry Allcock		1 July 1805	22 February 1808(Died in office at Québec)
Jonathan Sewell[12]		22 August 1808	1838
James Stuart[13]		22 October 1838	1853
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine[14]		13 August 1853	1864
Jean-François-Joseph Duval		March 1864	1874
Antoine-Aimé Dorion		1 June 1874	31 May 1891
Alexandre Lacoste		14 September 1891	24 January 1907
Henri-Thomas Taschereau		29 January 1907	11 November 1909
Louis-Amable Jetté		16 November 1909	10 August 1911
Horace Archambeault		10 August 1911	25 August 1918
Jean-Baptiste-Gustave Lamothe		22 December 1922	19 September 1932
Pierre-Eugène Lafontaine		22 December 1922	19 September 1932
Joseph-Mathias Tellier		21 September 1932	31 December 1942
Séverin Létourneau		9 January 1943	17 December 1949
Antonin Galipeault		18 January 1950	1 March 1961
Lucien Tremblay		1 March 1961	1 July 1977
Édouard Rinfret		10 August 1977	12 May 1980
Marcel Crête		12 May 1980	11 mars 1988
Claude Bisson		24 May 1988	31 October 1994
Pierre A. Michaud		1 November 1994	20 June 2002
Michel Robert		25 June 2002	30 August 2011
Nicole Duval Hesler		7 October 2011

References

1. Date the person was appointed, sworn in or started exercising, depending on the sources
2. Audet, Francis-Joseph (1927). "Gregory, William, 1764-1766". Les juges en chef de la province de Québec, 1764–1924. Québec: L'Action Sociale. p. 7.
3. Audet (1927), p. 13, Hey, William, 1766-1776.
4. in collaboration with; Marshall, Peter (1979). "Hey, William". In Halpenny, Francess G. Dictionary of Canadian Biography. IV (1771–1800) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
5. Audet (1927), p. 18, Livius, Peter, 1777-1786.
6. Upton, L. F. S. (1983). "Livius, Peter". In Halpenny, Francess G. Dictionary of Canadian Biography. V (1801–1820) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
7. Audet (1927), p. 25, Smith, William, 1786-1793.
8. Upton, L. F. S. (1979). "Smith, William (1728-93)". In Halpenny, Francess G. Dictionary of Canadian Biography. IV (1771–1800) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
9. Audet (1927), p. 31, Osgoode, William, 1794-1802.
10. Mealing, S. R. (1987). "Osgoode, William". In Halpenny, Francess G. Dictionary of Canadian Biography. VI (1821–1835) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
11. Firth, Edith G. (1983). "Elmsley, John". In Halpenny, Francess G. Dictionary of Canadian Biography. V (1801–1820) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
12. Greenwood, F. Murray; Lambert, James H. (1988). "Sewell, Jonathan". In Halpenny, Francess G. Dictionary of Canadian Biography. VII (1836–1850) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
13. Kolish, Evelyn (1985). "Stuart, Sir James". In Halpenny, Francess G. Dictionary of Canadian Biography. VIII (1851–1860) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
14. Monet, Jacques (1976). "La Fountaine, Sir Kouis-Hippolyte". In Halpenny, Francess G. Dictionary of Canadian Biography. IX (1861–1870) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.

External Links

• The Courts of Québec, "Chief Justices", in the site of the Court of Appeal of Québec, 2008