Margaret Thom

Margaret M. Thom is the Commissioner of the Northwest Territories, effective June 26, 2017.. She previously served as the Deputy Commissioner of the Northwest Territories, Canada from June 2, 2005 until October 2011.

Thom was born and raised in Fort Providence, Northwest Territories in an Indigenous family and worked a number of jobs before enrolling in a counselling program at Aurora College during the 1990s, subsequently becoming a counsellor at Deh Gáh School in Fort Providence.