Marie-Noëlle Thémereau (born 1950) is a French New Caledonian politician who served as the former president of the government of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean about 1,210 km (750 mi) east of Australia.
Marie-Noëlle Thémereau is the daughter of Claude Billet, a native of Corrèze and veteran of Free France who arrived in New Caledonia in 1949 as a worker on the ore carriers of Société Le Nickel (SLN) and general secretary from 1952 of the trade union of this company.
She thus stood out at the head of the Department of Studies, Legislation and Litigation, then that of the finances of the New Caledonia Territory from 1986 to 1988.
In 1989, she was elected to the congress of New Caledonia and to the South Province on the RPCR list, re-elected in 1995 and 1999.
[2] On 29 June 2004, Thémereau was elected to the presidency of the fifth government of New Caledonia resulting from the Nouméa Accords.