Nicole Boudreau (Quebec administrator)

Nicole Boudreau
President of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society in Montreal
In office 1986–1989
Preceded by	Jean-Marie Cossette
Succeeded by	Jean Dorion

Nicole Boudreau (born September 14, 1949) is an administrator, activist, and politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Closely associated with the Quebec sovereigntist movement, she led the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society in Montreal from 1986 to 1989 and oversaw the group Partenaires pour la souveraineté (Partners of Sovereignty) in the 1990s.

Boudreau has also sought election at the municipal level in Montreal. She is not to be confused with a different Nicole Boudreau who served on the Montreal city council from 1986 to 1994.

Boudreau was born to a working-class family in Noranda, Quebec. She studied art at the Université de Paris and later earned a philosophy degree from the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue. In 2002, she returned to Paris to complete a master's degree in tourism planning and management.

Boudreau was an organizer for Quebec's Fête nationale in the 1980s. In 1986, she indicated that the festival would forgo traditional folkloric themes and instead spotlight the growing presence of francophone Quebecers as entrepreneurs.

Boudreau joined the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society in 1980 and became president of its Montreal division in 1986. She was the first woman to be chosen as the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society's leader and remarked that her presidency was not simply a victory for women but for the society as a whole, marking a break with its more conservative past.

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