First elected as the MNA for Hull in the by-election of May 12, 2008, Maryse Gaudreault has served as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Culture, Communications and the Status of Women from May 28 to November 5, 2008. Re-elected in the general election of December 8, 2008, she was soon named Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of International Relations. Since May of 2009, she is also a member of the Quebec section of the Francophonie Parliamentary Assembly (APF) and the Parliamentary Confederation of the Americas (COPA).

Dedicated and dynamic, she began her career in 1987 with the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women in Sports in a managerial position. Six years later, she started a family and retired from the workforce for a period of four years. In 1998, she is named director of the Hull CHSLD Foundation, where she will work two years before entering political life as attaché to MNA Roch Cholette, whom she will second for the rest of his career.

Mrs. Gaudreault has long been active in Hull’s civic life. She was President of the Dôme neighbourhood resident’s association from 1991 to 1997. For the next four years, she joined the ranks of volunteers providing support to palliative care patients at the Maison Mathieu-Froment-Savoie. Since 1999, she has presided the organizing committee for the Hull Merit Award and remained active in the Hull Liberal riding association.

Recently, she was : President of corporate fundraising for the Quebec Cancer Foundation in Outaouais (2009), Spokesperson for the Quebec Week of Intellectual Disabilty in Outaouais (since 2009), Honorary President for the 30th anniversary of the Centre d'entraide aux aînés (2009),
Honorary President of Art au Pluriel (since 2009). Maryse Gaudreault was born in Quebec City and lives in the Outaouais region since 1984.

She is the mother of two teenage girls, Kamille and Éva.