Jacqueline Montpetit

Jacqueline Montpetit is a politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She served on the Montreal city council from 2001 to 2009 and was borough mayor of Le Sud-Ouest. Montpetit has also served as a school commissioner.

Montpetit has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from the Université Laval. She worked at the Carrefour d'éducation populaire de Pointe-Saint-Charles from 1971 to 1974 and, after raising a family, oversaw the same organization from 1987 to 1990.

Montpetit was elected to the Montreal Catholic School Commission in 1994 as a candidate of the secular and progressive Mouvement pour une école moderne et ouverte (MÉMO). Although MÉMO won more seats than any other party in this election, they fell short of a majority, and the governing Regroupement scolaire confessionnel (RSC) was able to remain in office with support from a smaller party. Montpetit served for the next four years as a member of the opposition.

Quebec's denominational school boards were replaced in 1998 by boards centered on language, and Montpetit was elected to the new Commission scolaire de Montréal in the elections of June 1998. MÉMO won a majority of commission seats in this election and was able to form a new administration, although it subsequently lost its majority when some of its elected members left the party to serve as independents. Montpetit, who remained with MÉMO, continued to served as a commissioner after her election to city council.

Throughout her time as a school commissioner, Montpetit was involved in efforts to provide a proper schoolyard space for the École Charles-Lemoyne, in her division. She did not seek re-election in 2003.

Montpetit was elected to the Montreal city council in the 1998 municipal election as a Vision Montreal candidate in Point-Saint-Charles. Vision Montreal lost this election to Gérald Tremblay's Montreal Island Citizens Union (MICU), and Montpetit initially served as an opposition member.

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