The Bâtonnière of Montreal

Mtre Caroline Larouche (2009)

Mtre Larouche has a highly diversified academic and professional background. She received a Bachelor of Law degree and a Master’s in Molecular Biology and Law from the University of Sherbrooke and also has a Juris Doctor degree from Queens University.

After specializing in medical and professional liability in private practice with Bélanger Longtin LLP, she joined the Quebec Attorney General’s office as a litigator in 2012. Since 2017 she has been a Crown prosecutor in the gangs and organized crime unit for Quebec’s Director of Criminal and Penal Prosecutions in Montreal.

Mtre. Larouche has always been very active in Montreal’s legal community. In addition to being a director of the Young Bar of Montreal for 5 years, including a term as President in 2015-2016, she has volunteered on various Montreal Bar committees since 2011.

In 2016 she joined the Council of the Montreal Bar as its Secretary and since then has also acted as Councillor and First Councillor. She therefore brings a great deal of experience as she begins her year as Bâtonnière.

She has been acting as Bâtonnière de Montréal since May 8, 2024 after taking over from Mtre. David Ettedgui. Mtre. Larouche is the 159th person, the 9th woman and the very first Crown prosecutor to fill this position in the section’s history.

Former Bâtonniers

2020 to 2023

2022-2023
Julie Mousseau
1994
2021-2022
Extra Junior Laguerre
2007
2020-2021
Robin Schiller
1984
2019-2020
Alexandre Forest
2011

2010 to 2020

Michel P. Synnott
Brian R. Mitchell
Simon Tremblay
Magali Fournier, Ad. E.
Greg Moore
Luc Deshaies, Ad. E.
Catherine Pilon
Elizabeth Greene
1981
Marc Charbonneau
1976
Nicolas Plourde, Ad. E.
1993

2000 to 2009

Stephen G. Schenke
1990
Gilles Ouimet, Ad. E.
1987
Julie Latour
1988
David R. Collier
1984
Bernard Synnott, Ad. E.
1987
Stéphane Rivard
1979
Alan M. Stein
1963
Richard Wagner
1980
Michel A. Pinsonnault
1975
Lynne Kassie, Ad. E.
1976

1990 to 1999

Ronald Montcalm, c.r
1967
Pierre Fournier
1968
Richard J. McConomy
1971
Robert Mongeon
1970
Jean-Jacques Gagnon, Ad. E.
1959
Casper M. Bloom, Q.C.
1967
Pierrette Rayle
1970
Alain Letourneau, c.r., Ad. E.
1959
J. Arclen Blakely, Q.C.
1958
Jules O. Duchesneau, c.r.
1957

1980 to 1989

Rolland Boudreau, c.r.
Manuel Shacter, c.r., Ad. E.
Gabriel Lapointe, c.r.
Guy Gilbert, c.r., Ad. E.
J. Vincent O’Donnell, Q.C., Ad. E.
Marcel Bélanger, c.r
André Quesnel, c.r.
George A. Allison, Q.C.
Philippe Casgrain, c.r.
Paul Trudeau

1970 to 1979

John J. Pepper, Q.C.
Pierre Bourque, c.r.
Pierre De Grandpré, c.r.
Thomas H. Montgomery, Q.C
Gérard Beaupré, c.r.
Jacques Viau, c.r.
Donald Newton Byers, Q.C.
Yvon Jasmin, c.r.
Charles J. Gélinas, c.r.
Philipp F. Vineberg, O.C., Q.C., LL.D.

1960 to 1969

Louis-Philippe de Grandpré, c.r.
R.-M. Lacroix, c.r
Alexander John Campbell, Q.C.
Emile Poissant, c.r.
Léon Lalande, c.r.
John Lewis O’Brien, Q.C.
Jacques Sénécal, c.r.
Alfred Tourigny, c.r.
Adrian-K. Hugessen, Q.C.
Bernard Bourdon, c.r.

1950 to 1959

Rosario Genest, c.r.
Hugh Emmett O’Donnell, Q.C.
Pierre Amable Badeaux, c.r.
Victor Pager, c.r.
John-G. Ahern, Q.C.
Thomas Reginald Ker, Q.C.
Jean Martineau, C.C., c.r., LL.D
Jean-Pierre Charbonneau, c.r.
William Bridges Scott, Q.C
Edouard Asselin, c.r., LL.D.
F. Philippe Brais, C.C., c.r.

1940 to 1949

ilion Graves Heward, K.C.
Gustave Monette, c.r.
J. Alexandre Prud’Homme, c.r.
John Thomas Hackett, K.C.
Antonio Perrault, c.r.
Charles-Auguste de Lotbinière Harwood, c.r.
Robert Clark McMichael, K.C.
Warwick Fielding Chipman, K.C.
Elie Beauregard, c.r.
Francis Fauteux, c.r.
Lawrence MacFarlane, K.C.

1930 to 1939

Arthur William Patrick Buchanan, K.C.
Paul Lacoste, c.r.
Pierre Beullac, c.r.
hn Augustine Mann, K.C.
Arthur Vallée, c.r.
Guillaume André Fauteux, c.r.
Henry Noel Chauvin, K.C.
L. Emery Beaulieu, c.r., LL.D.
Alfred Duranleau, c.r.
Alfred Duranleau, c.r.
Oscar Pierre Dorais, c.r.

1920 to 1929

Henri Gérin-Lajoie, c.r.
Rodolphe Monty, c.r.
George Hugh Alexander Montgomery, K.C.
Paul St-Germain, c.r.
Napoléon Kemner Laflamme, c.r.
John-W. Cook, K.C.
Ernest Pélissier, c.r.
Joseph Leonide Perron, c.r.
Gordon Walters Macdougall, c.r.
Louis Conrad Pelletier, c.r.
Georges Greene Foster, K.C.

1910 to 1919

Aimé Geoffrion, c.r.
Henry J. Kavanagh, K.C.
Charles Laurendeau, c.r.
Albert William Atwater, K.C.
François de Sales Bastien, c.r.
John Edward Martin, K.C.
Joseph Louis Archambault, c.r.
A.J. Brown, K.C.
François Joseph Bisaillon, c.r.
Robert C. Smith, K.C.

1900 to 1909

Honoré Gervais, c.r.
Frederick Edmund Meredith, K.C.
Pierre Basile Mignault, c.r.
Eugène Lafleur, c.r.
Gustave Lamothe, c.r.
Donald MacMaster, K.C.
Siméon Beaudin, c.r.
William John White, K.C.
Joseph Alexandre Camille Madore, c.r.

1890 to 1899

Christopher Benfield Carter, Q.C.
Joseph-Emery Robidoux, c.r.
John Dunlop, Q.C.
Louis-Olivier Taillon, c.r.
Frédéric Liguori Béique, c.r.
Norman-William Trenholme, Q.C.

1880 to 1889

Rouer Roy, c.r.
Alex-Hutech Lunn
Honoré Mercier, c.r.
Christophe-Alphonse Geoffrion, c.r.
William Wilcox Robertson, Q.C.
Alexandre Lacoste, c.r.

1870 to 1879

William H. Kerr, Q.C.
Antoine-Aimé Dorion, c.r.
Marcus Doherty, Q.C.
F. Cassidy, c.r.
John James Day, Q.C.
Gédéon Ouimet, c.r.

1860 to 1869

Alexander Cross, Q.C.
Joseph Doutre, c.r.
Andrew Robertson, Q.
Toussaint Antoine Rodolphe Laflamme, c.r.
Charles-André Leblanc, c.r.
Strachan Bethune, Q.C.
Antoine-Aimé Dorion, c.r.
Robert Mackay, Q.C.
Strachan Bethune, Q.C.

1849 to 1859

Joseph-Amable Berthelot, c.r.
Henry Stuart, Q.C.
Côme-Séraphin Cherrier
William Badgley, Q.C.
Antoine-Aimé Dorion, c.r.
Toussaint Peltier
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