Justice Caroline Thibault was called to the Ontario bar in 1999. She was an assistant Crown attorney in Toronto until 2005, when she joined the Ottawa Crown Attorney’s Office. She has conducted prosecutions in both English and French in the Superior Court of Justice and the Ontario Court of Justice. Her cases included homicides, sexual assaults, firearms’ prosecutions and fraud cases. Justice Thibault was also assigned as the Indigenous People’s Court Crown. In addition, she has appeared before the Ontario Review Board and acted as coroner’s counsel at inquests at the Office of the Chief Coroner.
Since 2006, Thibault has served as an instructor, and then co-director, of the French Language Institute Program, and since 2005, has served as a panelist for the Advocates’ Society. She is a lecturer at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, where every year since 2006, she has taught the Crown Attorney Assignment course. She has also taught the Mental Health Law course (2018) and the Advanced Criminal Law course (2018–2021). She received the uOttawa Faculty of Law Excellence in Teaching Award for 2020–2021, as well as being named to the Ordre du mérite of the Association des juristes d’expression française de l’Ontario, a distinction given annually to those who have made a significant impact on the French-language community in Ontario
Justice Thibault is an engaged member of her community. She has volunteered with Swim Ontario and has been a member of Ottawa Swim Masters since 2010, competing in swim meets. She has volunteered at a summer camp and organized international student exchanges through CISV International, a global organization dedicated to educating and inspiring young people through building intercultural friendship and cooperation. Justice Thibault was also a course director for the current legal issues and trial advocacy courses offered to assistant Crown attorneys at Crown summer school.
Congratulations to Justice Thibault on this appointment!
See the August 6 2025, news release from the Attorney General of Ontario for more information.