Margaret M. Thom
DStJ (born 1951) is the
commissioner of the Northwest Territories. She previously served as the deputy commissioner of the
Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories (abbreviated ''NT'' or ''NWT''; french: Territoires du Nord-Ouest, formerly ''North-Western Territory'' and ''North-West Territories'' and namely shortened as ''Northwest Territory'') is a federal territory of Canada. ...
, Canada, from June 2, 2005, until October 2011. In June 2022 she was appointed to a second term.
Thom was born and raised in
Fort Providence in an Indigenous family and worked a number of jobs before enrolling in a counselling program at
Aurora College
Aurora College, formerly Arctic College, is a college located in the Northwest Territories, Canada with campuses in Inuvik, Fort Smith and Yellowknife. They have learning centres in 23 communities in the NWT. The head office for Aurora Colleg ...
during the 1990s, subsequently becoming a counsellor at
Deh Gáh School in Fort Providence.
Thom is a member of the NWT Education Hall of Fame and has been awarded the Territorial Wise Woman Award.
Honours and Arms
;Appointments
Coat of Arms
Thom was granted a coat of arms through Grant of Arms and Supporters, with differences to Tina Marie Gargan, Melanie Georgette Thom-Gargan, Lee Maria Thom and Tamara Rosalie Thom-Field, on May 15, 2019.
References
External links
Deputy Commissioner Margaret Thom Biography
Living people
21st-century Canadian politicians
21st-century First Nations people
Commissioners of the Northwest Territories
Dene people
First Nations women
Northwest Territories Deputy Commissioners
Women in Northwest Territories politics
Dames of Justice of the Order of St John
Members of the Order of the Northwest Territories
1951 births
21st-century Canadian women politicians
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