Maryse Picard

Maryse Picard is a lawyer at Delegatus. She previously served as Executive Director of the Huron-Wendat Nation from 2021 to 2025 and was Chief of Staff to the Minister of Indigenous Affairs from 2018 to 2021, the first Indigenous woman to hold this position. Ms. Picard has a long track record in the Quebec public service. During her career, she has participated in two national commissions of inquiry; the first, as an expert, focused on relations between Indigenous peoples and certain public services in Quebec, and the second, as a lawyer, focused on murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls.