Curriculum vitae

The Honourable J. Michel Doyon, K.C., B.A., LL. L., Ph. D., Ad. E.
29^th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec

Born in Quebec City, QC
Married to Pauline Théberge
Children : Jean-François, Ing. and Marie-Hélène, CHRP

Educational Background

1964	Bachelor of Arts (History), Laurentian University, Sudbury.
1966	Master of Arts (History), Laval University, Quebec City.
1967	Normale Supérieure, Laval University, Quebec City.
1971	Bachelor of Law, Laval University, Quebec City.
1972	Called to the Bar of Quebec.
1978	PhD (History), Laval University, Quebec City.
1984	Doctoral studies completed (Philosophy), Laval University, Quebec City.

Official Function

2015	Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.

Professional Experiences

1972 - 1986	Professor of Corporate and Commercial Law, Quebec Bar’s Professional School.
1972 - 1986	Member of the examination and Correction Committee, Quebec Bar’s Professional School.
1976	Initiator and member of the organizing Committee, 14th Annual Congress of the International Association of Young Lawyers held in Quebec City.
1976 - 1978	Member of the Board of Directions, International Association of Young Lawyers.
1988 - 1993	Lecturer (Computing & Law), Faculty of Law, Laval University.
2002 - 2003	Vice-president of the Quebec City Bar Association, Member of the Administrative Committee and the General Council of the Quebec Bar Association.
2003 - 2004	President of the Quebec City Bar Association, Member of the Administrative Committee and the Finance Committee and the General Council of the Quebec Bar Association.
2004	Member of the Advisory Board of the Quebec National Assembly Exhibition marking the 200th Anniversary of the Quebec Civil Code.
2006 - 2007	Vice-president of the Quebec Bar Association, Chairman of the Finance Committee, Member of the Administrative Committee, the Continuing Legal Education Committee and the General Council of the Quebec Bar Association, Member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation de services du Barreau du Quebec.
2007 - 2008	President of the Quebec Bar Association.
2008 - 2009	Negotiator for the Quebec Bar Association with Mr. le Bâtonnier Paul-Albert Iweins, Chairman of the National Council of Bars (CNB - France), for the purpose of concluding an Arrangement for the mutual recognition of Professional qualifications between the Quebec Bar and the CNB. Co-signor with Mr. le Bâtonnier Paul-Albert Iweins, on September 7, 2007, of an Agreement to encourage exchanges and collaboration between their respective bars and, on October 17, 2008, a statement of intent to pursue a specific arrangement related to their profession.
2008	Initiator of the compulsory continuing legal education of the Quebec Bar Association.
2008 - 2014	Member of the Continuing Legal Education Committee and the subcommittee on caregivers.
2009 - 2012	Member of the Scientific Committee of the jointly organized conferences of  the Quebec Bar Association and Lyon Bar Association as part of the Annual Centre Jacques Cartier Conferences.
2009 - 2014	Initiator, conceptor and member of the Production Committee of the television series « Le Droit de savoir », a public broadcast on Quebec law, co-produced by the Quebec Bar Association, le Canal Savoir et Télé-Québec. Forty-nine  TV programs have been aired between 2011 and 2014.
2010 - 2014	Chairman of the Quebec Bar Association Committee on Dying with Dignity, committee set up in connection with the public consultation held by the Select Committee on Dying with Dignity of the Quebec National Assembly.
2011 - 2015	Vice chairman of the Professional Liability Insurance Fund of the Quebec Bar Association, Chairman of the Committee on Governance and member of the Ethics Committee.
2014 - 2015	Chairman the Continuing Legal Education Committee.

Professionnal Involvment

1987 - 1998	Member of the CBC Board of Directors, member of the Executive, Finance, English and French Broadcasting Committees, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the CBC Pension Plan and the Audit Committee.
1987 - 2005	Chairman of the PILT (Payment in Lieu of Taxes) Advisory Panel, whose  mandate is «to provide advice to the Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) with respect to the resolution of disputes concerning PILT payments between the federal government and Canadian taxing authorities».
2010 - 2011	Member of the Quebec Electoral Boundaries Commission of the 2012 Redistribution of Federal Electoral Districts.

Social Involvement

1979 - 1982	Member of the Board of Directors and Chairman (1981-1982) of the l’Association des gens de l’air du Québec and Trustee of the Roger Demers Foundation.
1982 - 1988	Member of the Board of Directors of Le Centre d'enseignement et de recherches en informatique Clément Lockwell.
1979 - 1984	Founding member, member of the Board of Directors and President (1982-1984) of la Fondation François Charon, Québec, now known under as l’Institut de réadaptation en déficience physique de Québec (IRDPQ).
1981 - 1987	Member of the Board of Directors and Captain (1986-1987) of the Royal Quebec Golf Club.
1988 - 1995	Member and Commandeur (1991-1994) of the Military & Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem.
1995 - 1999	Member of the Board of Directors of the Quebec Symphony Orchestra.
1998 - 1999	President of the Quebec Historical Society.
1999	Member of the Board of Directors and vice-chairman of la Corporation des fêtes du 150e anniversaire du Barreau de Québec.

Honours

1992	Appointed Queen’s Counsel (Q.C.).
1992	Recipient of the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal.
1997	Fellow of the International Napoleonic Society.
1999 - 2004	Honorary Colonel, 3 Wing, Royal Canadian Air Force, Bagotville.
2002	Recipient of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal.
2003	Member of the Order of St. John.
2005	Governor, 3 Wing, Royal Canadian Air Force, Bagotville.
2009	Awarded the title of Advocatus Emeritus (Ad. E.).
2012	Recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal.
2014	Recipient of the Quebec City Young Lawyers Association Centennial Award.
2016	Recipient of the Médaille du Barreau.

2016	Titular Member of the Royal 22e Régiment.

2016	Knight of Justice of the Order of St. John and Vice-Prior of Order of St. John Quebec Council.

2017	Officer of the Ordre de la Croix des Fusiliers.
2018	Knight of the Ordre de la Croix du Régiment de Trois-Rivières.
2022	Knight in the National Order of the Legion of Honour of the French Republic
2022	Medal of the Quebec Bar Council
2022	Appointed Governor of the Laval University Foundation

 

Academic works

• MA Thesis (History): Le jugement des Américains sur les Canadiens lors de l'invasion du Canada en 1775.
• PhD Thesis (History): Opération survie: le Parti conservateur à la recherche d'une nouvelle identité 1942-1948.

Legal Publications

• La Bureautique, in Continuing Legal Education, Quebec Bar Association,  texte publié dans Formation permanente du Barreau du Québec, Course 80, 1983 annual Meeting.
• Planification financière d'un cabinet d'avocats, in Quebec Bar Admission course.
• Droit, Loi et Équité, dans in Revue Générale de droit (1995) 26 R.G.D., 325-337
• Accessibilité aux jugements et droits d’auteur, in Revue de l’Association littéraire et artistique, 2008.
• Les avocats et le Barreau, une histoire…, (2009), Barreau du Québec, 249 p.
• Le Rabat, Cent ans d’histoire du Jeune Barreau de Québec 1914-2014, Jeune Barreau du Québec, May 2017, 234 p.

Other Publications

• Québec -Capitale de la Neige, Souvenir Album of the 25th Anniversary of the Quebec City’s winter carnival.
• Le club Royal Québec, 125 ans d’histoire, 1874-1999 (1999).
• The Royal Quebec Golf Club (2005).

Spoken and written languages

French and English