The Honourable Arif Virani, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, today announced the following appointment under the judicial application process established in 2016. This process emphasizes transparency, merit, and the diversity of the Canadian population, and will continue to ensure the appointment of jurists who meet the highest standards of excellence and integrity.
Mia Manocchio, Justice of the Peace at the Government of Nunavut in Iqaluit, is appointed a Judge of the Nunavut Court of Justice. Justice Manocchio fills the newly created position authorized further to the Budget Implementation Act, 2022, No. 1.
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"I wish Justice Manocchio every success as she takes on her new role. I am confident she will serve the people of Nunavut well as a member of the Nunavut Court of Justice."
-The Hon. Arif Virani, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
Biography
Justice Mia Manocchio obtained a Bachelor of Laws from the Université de Sherbrooke in 2002 and was admitted to the Quebec bar in 2003.
Judge Manocchio began her legal career at the Centre communautaire de l'Estrie as a lawyer specializing in criminal law and youth law. In 2005, she went into private practice with Rancourt Fréchette Robitaille (now Fréchette Dingman Tardif) in Sherbrooke, where she continued to represent clients before the courts in several regions of Quebec. Since 2012, in addition to joining the team of Yves Ménard Avocats in Montréal, she had been practising criminal law in Nunavut and decided to move there in 2019. During her first years in the Far North, she worked as a lawyer at the legal aid office in Iqaluit (Maliiganik Tukisiiniakvik Legal Services) before being appointed Justice of the Peace in Nunavut in August 2022.
Alongside her practice, Judge Manocchio taught criminal law at the École du Barreau du Québec (2008-2019), as well as a semester in the law program in Iqaluit, Nunavut, in collaboration with the University of Saskatchewan (2020). She has been involved in the legal community for several years with the Association québécois des avocats et avocates de la défense, where she served as president from 2016 to 2019. She was the recipient of the AQAAD Award recognizing excellence in her career path in 2020 and was also a member of the Executive Committee of the Law Society of Nunavut (2020-2022).
