Tribunal Members
The Tribunal is currently chaired by the Honourable Martine St-Louis, a judge of Federal Court. She was appointed Chairperson on December 21, 2016 for a term of five years. Her appointment has been renewed until February 24, 2027. The Honorable Ann Marie McDonald and Phuong T.V. Ngo are also Judges of the Federal Court and current members of the Tribunal.
The Honourable Martine St-Louis
She obtained a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Montreal in 1987 and was admitted to the Barreau du Quebec in 1988. She practised with Ogilvy Renault (Norton Rose) from 1991 to 2000, with Heenan Blaikie from 2000 to 2001 and with McCarthy Tétrault from 2001 to April 2014. Her main areas of practice were immigration law, administration law, labour law and constitutional law.
Madam Justice St-Louis has been active with numerous professional organizations, including the Canadian Bar Association, the International Bar Association and the Association des avocats et avocates en droit de l'immigration.
On April 11, 2014, she was appointed Judge of the Federal Court and on June 3, 2015 she was appointed as a Member of the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Tribunal.
The Honourable Ann Marie McDonald
Madam Justice McDonald received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1991 and a Bachelor of Laws in 1993 from the University of New Brunswick. She was admitted to the Bar of New Brunswick in 1994.
At the time of her appointment to the Federal Court in September 2015, Madam Justice McDonald was the Deputy Managing Partner of the Atlantic Canadian Law firm McInnes Cooper. Her law practice focused primarily in the areas of commercial litigation, employment law, administrative law, and regulatory matters. She appeared before the Courts in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Ontario and the Federal Court of Appeal. She also appeared before various administrative tribunals and regulatory bodies.
In her legal practice, Madam Justice McDonald was a strong proponent of legal project management, and in 2010 she earned the Project Management Professional (PMP) designation from the International Project Management Institute. At that time, she was one of the few lawyers in Canada to hold this designation.
On September 1, 2015, she was appointed Judge of the Federal Court and on February 25, 2022, she was appointed as a Member of the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Tribunal.
The Honourable Phuong T.V. Ngo
Madam Justice Phuong T.V. Ngo obtained her Bachelor of Arts in French and Political Science from Carleton University, and her Bachelor of Education from the University of Ottawa before receiving her LL.B. (French Common Law Program) from the University of Ottawa in 1998. She was called to the Bar of Ontario in 2000.
Prior to her appointment to the Federal Court, Madam Justice Ngo was a partner with the law firm Gowling WLG in the Ottawa office where she spent her entire career and was the Leader of the Procurement Law Group. She practised in both official languages in the field of procurement law with a focus on administrative law, regulatory and compliance matters, and procurement-related disputes and litigation. In her medical defence and health law practice, she specialized in civil litigation and regulatory matters as well as a focus on privacy law.
On September 25, 2023, she was appointed Justice of the Federal Court and ex officio member of the Federal Court of Appeal, and on May 3, 2024, she was appointed as a Member to the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Tribunal.
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