Lise Thibault
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Adrienne Clarkson
Michaëlle Jean
Lise Thibault | |
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.jpg) Thibault in 2006 | |
| 27th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec | |
| In office 30 January 1997 – 7 June 2007 | |
| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Governors General | Roméo LeBlanc Adrienne Clarkson Michaëlle Jean |
| Premier | Lucien Bouchard Bernard Landry Jean Charest |
| Preceded by | Jean-Louis Roux |
| Succeeded by | Pierre Duchesne |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 April 1939 Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan, Quebec, Canada |
| Spouse | René Thibault |
| Parent(s) | Paul Trudel Laurenza Wolfe |
| Alma mater | Cégep de Saint-Jérôme |
| Profession | Civil servant, Teacher, Journalist |
Lise Thibault DStJ (French pronunciation: [liz tibo]; born 2 April 1939) is a Canadian politician who served as the 27th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec from 1997 to 2007. She later spent six months in jail for misuse of public funds, which she was ordered to repay the government. As of 2026, she is the only Canadian vice-regal representative to have been incarcerated.
Born in Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan, Quebec, she was the eldest daughter of Paul Trudel and Laurenza Wolfe. She was educated at the Académie Marie-Anne de Montréal, and then went on to teachers' college at Cégep de Saint-Jérôme. She married René Thibault in 1959.[1] Thibault was permanently disabled in a tobogganing accident as a teenager, and uses a wheelchair.[2][3]
Career
Thibault taught with the adult education department of the Milles-Îles and Des Écores school boards from 1973 to 1978. She worked for Télé-Métropole from 1977 to 1981. From 1982 to 1984 she was a host and researcher at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as for programs about family and community issues. She was the vice president for Quebec's Commission de la santé et de la sécurité du travail (CSST) from 1987 to 1993. She was president and CEO of the Office des personnes handicapées du Québec from 1993 to 1995.[1]
She was closely associated with the federal Liberal Party for many years, and on the advice of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, the Governor General appointed her Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec, following the resignation of Jean-Louis Roux in 1997. She became Quebec's first female viceroy, and the first disabled lieutenant governor in Canada. In February 2005, Thibault had a stroke.[4] She was one of the longest serving lieutenant governors in Canadian history, serving for over ten years.
