- Minister of Justice (Quebec)
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The Minister of Justice (in French: Ministre de la Justice) is responsible for the administration of courts and prosecutors in Quebec, Canada. The Minister is automatically the Attorney General, and Registrar of Quebec.
On June 4, 1965, the Justice Department Act came into effect, making Quebec the first Canadian province to have a department of justice. The first Minister appointed under the new Act was Claude Wagner.
Previous Quebec Ministers of Justice:
- Kathleen Weil (December 18, 2008–present)
- Jacques P. Dupuis (April 18, 2007 - December 18, 2008)
- Yvon Marcoux (February 18, 2005 - April 18, 2007)
- Jacques P. Dupuis (April 27, 2004 - February 18, 2005)
- Marc Bellemare (April 29, 2003 - April 27, 2004)
- Normand Jutras (October 29, 2002 - April 29, 2003)
- Paul Bégin (March 8, 2001 - October 28, 2002)
- Linda Goupil (December 15, 1998 - March 8, 2001)
- Serge Ménard (August 25, 1997 - December 15, 1998)
- Paul Bégin (September 26, 1994 - August 25, 1997)
- Roger Lefebvre (January 11, 1994 - September 26, 1994)
- Gil Rémillard (June 23, 1988 - January 11, 1994)
- Herbert Marx (December 12, 1985 - June 23, 1988)
- Raynald Fréchette (October 3, 1985 - December 12, 1985)
- Pierre Marc Johnson (March 5, 1984 - October 3, 1985)
- Marc-André Bédard (November 26, 1976 - March 5, 1984)
- Gérard D. Lévesque (July 30, 1975 - November 26, 1976)
- Jérôme Choquette (May 12, 1970 - July 30, 1975)
- Rémi Paul (July 23, 1969 - May 12, 1970)
- Jean-Jacques Bertrand (June 16, 1966 - July 23, 1969)
- Claude Wagner (June 4, 1965 - June 16, 1966)
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List of Attorneys-General of Quebec (Procureur Général du Québec)
Prior to 1965, the senior justice official in the province was the Attorney General. This role was created in 1867 replacing the role of Attorney General of Canada East and before 1841 the Attorney General of Lower Canada.
- Gédéon Ouimet 1867-1873
- Georges Irvine 1873-1874
- Levi Ruggles Church 1874-1876
- Auguste-Réal Angers 1876-1878
- David Alexander Ross 1878-1879
- Louis-Onesime Loranger 1879-1882
- Joseph-Alfred Mousseau 1882-1884
- Louis-Olivier Taillon 1884-1887
- Honoré Mercier 1887-1888
- Arthur Turcotte 1888-1890
- Joseph-Emery Robidoux 1890-1891
- Thomas Chase Casgrain 1891-1892, 1892–1896
- Edmund Jamess Flynn 1892
- Louis-Philippe Pelletier 1896-1897
- Sir François-Xavier-Horace Archambeault 1897-1905
- Lomer Gouin 1905-1919
- Louis-Alexandre Taschereau 1919-1936
- Joseph-Edouard Perrault 1936
- Charles-Auguste Bertrand 1936-1939
- Maurice Duplessis 1936-1939
- Wilfrid Girouard 1939-1942
- Léon Casgrain 1942-1944
- Maurice Duplessis 1944-1959
- Antoine Rivard 1959-1960
- Georges-Émile Lapalme 1960-1963
- René Hamel 1963-1964
- Claude Wagner 1964-1965
List of Attorneys-General of Canada East (Procureur Général du Canada-Est) 1841-1867
- Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine 1842-1843
- James Smith ? −1847
- William Badgley 1847-1848
- Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine 1848-1851
- Lewis Thomas Drummond 1851-1856
- Sir George-Étienne Cartier 1856-1862
- Sir Antoine-Aimé Dorion 1863-1864
- Sir George-Étienne Cartier 1864-1867
List of Attorneys-General of Lower Canada (Procureur Général du Bas-Canada) 1791-1841
- James Stuart 1825-1832
- Charles Richard Ogden 1833-1840
- Jonathan Sewell 1791-1793
- Jonathan Sewell 1795-1796
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