Personal bio
Geneviève Chabot is a Special Legal Counsel at the Supreme Court of Canada, where she advises the Judges on complex legal questions raised in a broad range of legal matters of significant scope and impact. She joined the Supreme Court of Canada in January 2024 after completing a two-year term as a Justice of the High Court of Belize. Appointed in the context of a Rule of Law project led by the Commonwealth Secretariat, she sat in the civil division where she presided over, and rendered decisions in civil and family law matters. She also chaired Belize’s Child Justice Steering Committee.
A human rights law expert, Geneviève was the Deputy Chief Commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission from 2017 to 2021. From 2016 to 2017, she was the Deputy Chair of the Yukon Human Rights Commission.
Geneviève began her career practicing civil litigation, both in the private and public sector. From 2011 to 2013, she was an associate in the litigation department of a prominent national law firm. From 2013 to 2017, she worked in the Yukon Regional Office of the Department of Justice Canada, where she notably represented the Government of Canada in the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (Yukon hearings) and the Independent Assessment Process for Former Students of Indian Residential Schools.
Fluent in French and English, Geneviève holds a B.A. in Psychology from Laval University, a combined LL.L./J.D. degree from the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Harvard Law School. She is called to the Law Society of Ontario, the New York Bar, and was a member of the Law Society of Yukon from 2013-2017. In 2023, she became a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.