Ottawa, Ontario
17 October 2014
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today announced the following appointment:
>The Honourable Marc Noël, a Judge of the Federal Court of Appeal, is appointed Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Appeal, to replace the Honourable Pierre Blais, who retired on June 23, 2014.
Mr. Justice Noël was appointed a Judge of the Federal Court of Canada, Trial Division and ex officio member of the Court of Appeal and Judge of the Court Martial Appeal Court in 1992. He was appointed a member of the Competition Tribunal in 1993 and Judge of the Federal Court, Appeal Division in 1998. Since 2003, the date of the coming into force of the Courts Administration Service Act, he has been a Judge of the Federal Court of Appeal.
Prior to his appointment, he was a partner in the Montreal office of Bennett Jones Verchere. He also served as Governor of the Canadian Tax Foundation and as President of the Canadian Bar Association Tax Subsection for Quebec.
Mr. Justice Noël graduated from the University of Ottawa with a Bachelor of Arts, a Bachelor of Civil Law and a Bachelor of Common Law, and was called to the Bar of Quebec and the Bar of Ontario. In 1990, he was appointed Queen's Counsel.
