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The Quebec Court of Appeal is composed of 22 judges puisne and of 7 supernumerary judges. It is headed by a Chief Justice, the Honourable Manon Savard, who was appointed to that position on June 10, 2020.

*Supernumerary Judge

List of Former judges

Chief Justices since the foundation of the Court of Appeal of Quebec

1849 - 1853: Sir James Stuart
1853 - 1864: Sir Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine
1864 - 1874: The Honourable Jean-François Duval
June 1, 1874 - May 31, 1891: Sir Antoine-Aimé Dorion
September 14, 1891 - January 24, 1907: Sir Alexandre Lacoste
January 29, 1907 - November 11, 1909: Sir Henri-Thomas Taschereau
November 16, 1909 - August 10, 1911: Sir Louis-Amable Jetté
August 10, 1911 - August 25, 1918: Sir Horace Archambeault
September 19, 1918 - November 24, 1922: The Honourable Gustave Lamothe
December 22, 1922 - September 19 1932: The Honourable Eugène Lafontaine
September 21, 1932 - December 31, 1942: Sir J.-Mathias Tellier
January 9, 1943 - December 17, 1949: The Honourable Séverin Létourneau
January 18, 1950 - March 1, 1961: The Honourable Antonin Galipeault
March 1, 1961 - July 1, 1977: The Honourable Lucien Tremblay
August 10, 1977 - May 12, 1980: The Honourable Édouard-Gabriel Rinfret
May 12, 1980 - March 11, 1988: The Honourable Marcel Crête
May 24, 1988 - October 31, 1994: The Honourable Claude Bisson
November 15, 1994 - June 20, 2002: The Honourable Pierre A. Michaud
June 25, 2002 - August 31, 2011: The Honourable J.J. Michel Robert
October 7, 2011 - April 7, 2020: The Honourable Nicole Duval Hesler

 

Judges (in alphabetical order)

Victor Allard (1920-1931)
Horace Archambault (1908-1911)
Thomas Cushin Aylwin (1849-1868)
Louis-François-Georges Baby (1881-1896)
Pierre-Amable Badeaux (1959-1966)
William Badgley (1866-1874)
Gregor Barclay (1934-1954)
Jean-Louis Baudouin (1989-2008)
Marc Beauregard (1980-2012)
Jean Beetz - (1973-1974) *appointed judge to the Supreme Court of Canada
Dominique Bélanger (2012-2022)
Laurent-E. Bélanger (1973-1983)
Alphonse Bernier (1921-1942)
Yves Bernier (1973-1991)
Ernest Bertrand (1949-1955)
André Biron (ad hoc) (1995-2004)
Claude Bisson (1980-1996)
Bernard Bissonnette (1942-1964)
Jean Blanchet (1891-1908)
William Langley Bond (1929-1942) *appointed Associate Chief Justice of the Superior Court
Joseph-Guillaume Bossé (1888-1908)
Jean Bouchard (2009-2023)
André Brossard (1989-2011)
Roger Brossard (1964-1976)
Jonathan Saxton Campbell Würtele (1892-1904)
Lawrence-Arthur Canon (1927-1930) *appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada
René-Édouard Caron (1855-1873)
Henry George Carroll (1909-1921)
Paul Charles Casey (1946-1979)
Jacques Chamberland (1993-2021)
François Chevalier (ad hoc) (1984-1994)
Fernand Choquette (1956-1970)
Julien Chouinard (1975-1979 *appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada
Roger Chouinard (1983-1998)
Levi Ruggles Church (1887-1892)
Lise Côté (2005-2010)
Marcel Crête (1972-1988)
Alexander Cross (1877-1892)
Alexander George Cross (1907-1919)
Pierre J. Dalphond (2002-2014)
Jacques Delisle (1992-2009)
Marie Deschamps (1992-2002) *appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Jules O. Deschênes (1972-1973) *appointed Chief Justice of the Superior Court
Charles-Édouard Dorion (1920-1939)
Lewis Thomas Drummond (1864-1873)
André Dubé (1973-1993)
Jacques Dufresne (2005-2021)
René Dussault (1989-2008)
Jean-François Duval (1855-1864)
Nicole Duval Hesler (2006-2020)
Jean-François Émond (2014-2017)
Morris J. Fish (1989-2003) *appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Edmund James Flynn (1920-1927)
André Forget (1996-2012)
Jacques R. Fournier (2011-2013) *appointed Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Quebec
Lucie Fournier (2019-2022)
J.-Napoléon Francoeur (1940-1945)
Jules-Arthur Gagné (1945-1956)
Claude Gagnon (1972-1975)
Claude C. Gagnon (2013-2020)
Antonin Galipeault (1930-1950)
Clément Gascon (2012-2014) *appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada
Paul-Arthur Gendreau (1986-2010)
Honoré Gervais    (1911-1915)
Lorne Giroux (2005-2020)
Charles D. Gonthier (1988-1989) *appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada
Robert-Alfred-Ernest Greenshields (1919-1929) *appointed Associate Chief Justice of the Superior Court
Edmund Guérin (1920-1932)
Robert Newton Hall (1892-1907)
Allan R. Hilton (2003-2022)
Eratus Edwin Howard (1920-1934)
George Miller Hyde (1950-1973)
Maurice Jacques (1981-1991)
Nicholas Kasirer (2009-2019) *appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada
Fred Kaufman (1973-1991)
François Lajoie (1970-1984)
Antonio Lamer (1978-1980) *appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada and, in 1990, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Joseph Lavergne (1906-1922)
Louis LeBel (1984-2000) *appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada
Jacques A. Léger (2009-2015)
René Letarte (ad hoc) (1997-2003)
Séverin Létourneau (1922-1942)
Jacques J. Levesque (2012-2024)
Claire L'Heureux-Dubé (1979-1987) *appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Louise Mailhot (1987-2006)
Albert Malouf (1981-1991)
Aimé Marchand (1942-1955)
John Edward Martin (1918-1922) *appointed Associate Chief Justice of the Superior Court
Jean Martineau (1954-1959)
Albert Mayrand (1974-1985)
Gérald McCarthy (1980-1994)
Errol Malcom McDougall (1942-1949)
Edward Stuart McDougall (1942-1957)
William Collis Meredith (1859-1866) *appointed Chief Justice of the Superior Court
Pierre A. Michaud (1992-2002)
Amédée Monet (1977-1991)
Samuel Cornwallis Monk (1868-1888)
George H. Montgomery (1957-1987)
Benoît Morin (2001-2017)
Marcel Nichols (1982-1995)
John A. Nolan (1979-1986)
Joseph R. Nuss (1995-2009)
Louise Otis (1993-2009)
Joseph-Aldéric Ouimet (1896-1906)
George Robert Whittey Owen (1955-1987)
Philippe Panet (1849-1855)
Rodolphe Paré (1976-1990)
Étienne Parent (2015-2017)
François Pelletier (2000-2022)
Louis-Philippe Pelletier (1915-1921)
Jacques Philippon (ad hoc) (1995-2001)
Robert Pidgeon (1997-2001) *appointed Associate Chief Justice of the Superior Court
Garon Pratte (1945-1968)
Alfred Prévost (1942-1945)
Michel Proulx (1989-2004)
Thomas Kennedy Ramsay (1873-1886)
Pierrette Rayle (2002-2008)
Édouard-Gabriel Rinfret (1952-1977)
Adjutor Rivard (1921-1941)
Antoine Rivard (1961-1973)
Alexander Rives-Hall (1922-1942)
J.J. Michel Robert (1995-2011)
Louis Rochette (2000-2021)
André Rochon (2002-2014)
Jean-Roch Rolland (1849-1855)
Melvin L. Rothman (1983-2005)
Thérèse Rousseau-Houle (1990-2006)
Claudine Roy (2017-2020)
Élie Salvas (1966-1972)
John Sewall Sanborn (1874-1877)
Paul St-Germain (1931-1951)
Joseph-Léon Saint-Jacques (1932-1961)
Marie St-Pierre (2012-2018)
Henry Steinberg (1993-1995)
André Taschereau (1955-1972)
Jean-Thomas Taschereau (1873-1875) *appointed judge of the Supreme Court of Canada
Joseph-Mathias Tellier (1920-1932)
Ulric-Joseph Tessier (1875-1892)
France Thibault (1998-2023)
Christine Tourigny (1987-1998)
Norman William Trenholme (1904-1918)
Jean Turgeon (1969-1985)
William S. Tyndale (1983-1995)
Claude Vallerand (1983-2003)
Paul Vézina (2005-2018)
Richard Wagner (2011-2012) *appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in 2012 and, in 2017, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Joseph-Charles Walsh (1932-1947)