First President of the International Criminal Court
Chief Justice of the Quebec Court of Appeal
The Honourable Nicole Duval Hesler was appointed to the Superior Court of Quebec in 1992, to the Court of Appeal in 2006, and became Chief Justice of the province of Quebec in — the first woman to be appointed to this position, the highest court in Quebec. She was admitted to the Quebec Bar in 1968. The same year, she joined the Montreal firm of Buchanan McAllister, later known as McAllister, Blakely, Hesler & Lapierre, in which she became a partner in 1976.