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Caribbean Women of Distinction
CARIBBEAN WOMEN OF DISTINCTION
Regional and Diasporic Profiles
 Heads of State & Government
 

Her Excellency, Michaelle Jean   
Governor General of Canada        Haiti

Dame Nita Barrow                       
Governor General                         Barbados
President, WCC

Dame Hilda Bynoe                      
Governor General                         Grenada

Dame Paulette Louisy                   
Governor General                         St Lucia

Dame Ivy Dumont                          
Governor General                         Bahamas

Dame Louise Lake-Tac                 
Governor General                         Antigua/B’da

Dame Eugenia Charles                 
Prime Minister                              Dominica

First Woman lawyer in D’ca

Hon Janet Jagan                               
First Woman Prime Minister         Guyana

and First Vice President                 

Hon Portia Simpson                      
First Woman Prime Minister         Jamaica

Hon Kamla Persad-Bissessar          
First Woman Prime Minister         T&T
Hon Emily de Jong-Elhage

Prime Minister, Netherlands Antilles
Hon Sarah Wescot-Williams
Prime Minister, Sint Maarten
Dona Mireya Moscoso                    
First Woman President                   Panama

Justice Ertha Pascal-Trouillot          
First Woman President (Interim)   Haiti

Hon. Michele Pierre-Louis              
First Woman Prime Minister         Haiti


National Heroines
 

Nanny                                                 
National Heroine                        Jamaica

Dame Georgiana "Nellie" Robinson 
National Heroine                  Antigua/Barbuda    

 
Legislators
 

Hon Phyllis Shand Alfrey           
Minister, Labor/Social Services  Dominica

West Indies Federation

First woman legislator in D’ca

Dame Billie Miller                      
Foreign Minister/Trade     Barbados

Deputy Prime Minister

Hon Cynthia Pratt                              
Dep. Prime Minister           Bahamas

Hon Margaret Solomon                     
Dep. Minister of Education      
Toronto, Canaada                   T&T

Hon Rose Leon                             
Chair, JLP 1945-1965       Jamaica

Elected 1949;  Minister 1953-55

PNP Minister, 1972-76

Hon Kamla Persad-Bissessar    
UNC
Opposition Leader   T & T                           

Hon Hazelyn Francis                    
President, Senate              Antigua/B’da

Hon Sarah A Wescott-Williams   
Leader of Government           St Maarten

Hon Grace Schneiders-Howard    
First woman politician           Suriname


Hon. Shirley Chissolm                
First Black & Caribbean Woman 
elected to US
Congress        
First Black & Woman 
US
Presidential Candidate   Barbados
Hon Yvette Clarke                      
Congresswoman, Bkln, NY  Jamaica

Hon Dr Donna Christian-Christensen  
Congresswoman, USVI        Virgin Islands            

Hon Lydia Velasquez                   
Congresswoman, NYC         Puerto Rico                    


Baroness Valerie Amos              
Lord President, House of Lords       
First black woman Minister in a
British Cabinet;  Secretary of State
for International Development    Guyana

Baroness Ros Howells                  
UK House of Lords                     Grenada

Baroness Patricia Scotland           
UK House of Lords             D’ca/M’rat

Attorney General
Hon Dawn Bulter, MP
                  
UK House of Commons              Jamaica

Hon Diane Abbott, MP                 
UK House of Commons             Jamaica
Hon Floella Benjamin              T&T
British Labor Party
H
on Lydia Simmons                     
Mayor, Slough, UK                      M’rat
Hon Jennette Arnold                     
First Black Chair,
London Assembly                        M’rat


Hon Constance BakerMotley       
NYS Senator                                St Kitts

Manhattan Boro President

Hon  Helen Marshall                     
Boro President, Queens, NY      Guyana

Hon Yvonne Graham                    
Dep. Boro President, Bklyn        Jamaica

Hon Rosemonde Pierrre-Louis     
Dep.
Boro President, Manhattan   Haiti

Hon Pauline Rhodd-Cummings   
NYS Assembly                            Jamaica

Hon Juanita Watkins                     
NYC Council                              Barbados

Hon Una S T Clarke        
NYC Council                     Jamaica

Hon Marie St. Fleur                         
Massachusetts State Rep.          Haiti

Hon. Veronica Eirey-Wilson           
Hartford City Council                 Jamaica

Hon Shirley Nathan-Pulliam             
Maryland General Assembly       Jamaica

Hon Dr Alred Dyce                           
City Council, Bloomfield, CT     Jamaica

Hon Hazelle Rogers                          
Florida State Rep.                         Jamaica

City Commissioner, Lauderdale Lakes, FL                           

First Caribbean Amer. elected in S.E. US

Velma Palmer                                  
Vice Mayor,
City of South Miami, FL             Jamaica

Marie Steril                                      
Councilwoman,
City of North Miami, FL              Haiti

Hon Beatriz Paredes                          
President, PRI                               Mexico

Hon Epsy Campbell Barr                   
President,
Citizen Action Party(PAC)         Costa Rica

Hon. Drs. Gracita Arrindell               
Leader,
Peoples Progressive Alliance    Sint Maarten

Dr Elsa A. de Leon                            
Governor, Samana                       Dom Rep

Hon  Luciana de Policani                   
Governor, Colón                         Panamá
Hon Martha Johnson                         
Governor, Limón                        Costa Rica
Hon Dayana Martinez Burke           
Congresswoman, (Garifuna)  Honduras

Hon Dr Mirna Cunningham             
RAAN Delegate to National As
sembly 
First President, URACCAN   Nicaragua

Hon Alta Hooker                             
First Woman President of the              
Executive Council of RAAN,

(Autonomous North Atlantic Region)

2nd  President, URACCAN   Nicaragua




Posted   March, 2010

 JUDICIARY  -  ACADEMIA  -  DIPLOMACY
Judiciary
 

Justice Ertha Pascal-Trouillot         
First Woman, Supreme Court        

& Chief Justice                                              Haiti
Hon Mme Justice Desiree Bernard 
Justice of the CCJ     (2005)           Guyana

First Woman Chief Justice of Guyana
and 
Commonwealth Caribbean (1996)

First Chancellor of the Judiciary of Guyana

and in the Commonwealth Caribbean (2001)

Justice Graciela Dixon   
President of Supreme Court                            Panama

President, Latin Amer. Justices

Justice Vilma Cecilia Morales    
President of Supreme Court                             Honduras

Justice Sonia Sotomayor                  
US Supreme Court                                           P.R./Bronx

 

Judge Constance Baker-Mottley   
NYS Supreme Court                                         St Kitts 

Judge Diane Renwick-Johnson      
Bronx Supreme Court

First Black Woman on NYS Appellate Court    
 

Judge Gerthel Thom,                     
Wind.  Islands Supreme Ct.                           Guyana

 

Judge Kathy King                          
NY Supreme court                                         M’rat

Judge Annesta Weekes, QC           
UK                                                                 M’rat
              

Judge Bernadette Bayne                              Grenada

Judge                   Joseph

Judge Sylvia Hinds-Radix                               Grenada

Judge Sylvia Ash                                              St Vincent

Judge Margareth Jourdan                
Spring Valley, NY                                            Haiti                                                       

Judge Janina Small,     
Associate Magistrate, Supreme Court              Panama

Judge Alma Montenegro

            de Fletcher                         
Attorney General                                              Panama

Judge Jacqueline D Williams          
NY          Panama

Judge Shawndya Luisa Simpson    
Bkln Civil Court                                                Panama

Manhattan Criminal & SurrogateeCourt

 

 Academics
 Dr Ena Farley                 
NYS Regent, State University of NY             Jamaica

Dr. Marcia Keizs,            
President, York College, CUNY                   Jamaica

Dr. Carole Berotte- Joseph         
President, Bronx
Community College             Haiti

Dr Thelma Barnaby         
President

Dr. LaVerne Ragster,      
President, UVI                                              St Thomas

Dr. Goretti Narain,            
President, Univ. of the Neth. Antilles             Curacao

Dr. Lydia Emerencia,        
Rector, University of Aruba                           Aruba

Mrs Josianne Fleming-Artsen,
President, Univ. of Sint Maarten             Sint Maarten    

Lic. Maria Elvira Gomez,  
Rectora, Universidad Nacional 
Experimental Francisco de Miranda            Venezuela    
Dr Lorna Mc Barnette,     
President, American International University

NYS Health Commissioner                             Grenada

Dr Marion Clarke-Martin,   
Acting Rector, University of Panama               Panama      

Rector, Instituto Superior Internacional

Mme Joycelyne Trouillot Fievre           
Rectrice, Universite Caraibe                            Haiti
Dra Olga de Mostafa           
Rectora, Universidad Latino
Americana
del Caribe (ULAC)                                          Venezuela
Dr Dolores Fernandez         
President, Hostos Community                          Puerto Rico
College, CUNY
Dr Mirna Cunningham,       
Rectora, URACCAN                                         Nicaragua
Hon Alta Hooker,                
Rectora, URACCAN                                         Nicaragua
Dr Yolanda Ogilvie            
Rectora, Universidad de Contadores
 Publicos Autorizados                                        Panama

Dr Elizabeth Nunez             
Sr. Vice President/Provost, Medgar Evers       T&T

Dr Daisy Cocco de Filippis  
Vice President/Provost, Hostos/CUNY           D.R.
Dr                                    
Vice President, City College, CUNY                    Jamaica 
Dr Esther Ward                
Vice President, Bowie State, MD                      
Dr Linda Davis,               
Vice President, College of Bahamas                   Bahamas
Jennifer Jackson               
Vice President, UVI                                            St Croix
Dr Avis Glaze                  
Education Commissioner, Toronto, Canada     Jamaica

Lorna Parkins                   
Secretary General, UNICA and
Caribbean Medical Accreditation Board         Jamaica

Annette Insanally 
Secretary General, UNICA                              Guyana

  
Diplomacy
 

Ambassador Lucille Mair,            
United Nations                                          Jamaica

Ambassador Patricia Durrant,      
United Nations                                           Jamaica

Ambassador Angela King            
(Clinton’s appointee to UN)                      St Vincent

 

Ambassador Dr Paulette Bethel   
United Nations                                            Bahamas

Ambassador Marina Valere         
Chair, OAS Permanent Council                Trinidad

Ambassador Sonia Johnny            
Vice Chair, OAS Permanent Council         St Lucia

Angela Missouri Sherman-Peter   
High Commissioner to UK                        Bahamas

Ambassador Laurine Fenton          
OECS High Comissioner to Canada         Montserrat


Community Service
 

Hon Rigubertu Menchu              
Nobel Peace Laureate                 Guatemala

Mirabal Sisters                           
Martyrs                                      Dom Rep

Ms Dorinda Sampath                
President, CCC   1973-1981      T&T                                           

Mrs Joan Jones                         
President, CCC    1981-1986     T&T

Mrs Meyrtha Leetz-Cijntje       
President, CCC    1986-1997      Curacao

Dr Oluwakemi Linda Banks     
President CCC      1997--2010    Anguilla

Dame Gwendolyn Tonge          
Senator, Community Educator    Antigua/B’da
 
National Women’s Leader

Lic. Esmeralda Brown              
President, Southern Caucus of NGOs Panama

Exec. Sec., United Methodist Global Missions

Vice President, CIDES

Dr Beatrice R. Allen      
President, Montserrat Council of Churches       
Pastor, Librarian, Educator               M'rat 

Internatl. V.P.- Come Bible Institute, NY

Governor, Wesleyan Bible College, Jamaica

Nelcia Robinson                      St Vincent
Member, Regional Judicial & Legal
Services
Commission of the CCJ                                                                       

Chair, Caribbean Policy Dev Center…

Caribbean Association for Feminist Research;

Caribbean Organization of Indigenous Peoples;

Caribbean Gender and Trade Network.

Vereen Thomas-Woolcock              
Trade Unionist (
MAWU, CCL, ICFTU)     M’rat                

Elma Francois                                  St Vincent
Negro Welfare Cultural
 & Social Association                                        

Nesta Bonaparte-Patrick                  T&T             
Educator, Social Worker &
Community Leader                                            

Dr Sonia Pierre                
Haitian Rights Activist                      Dom.Rep.

Marjorie Newlin              
US
Body Building Champion (age 82) B'dos

Nuria I Fernandez            
Aviation Commissioner, Chicago         Panama

Hope White-Davis                              Jamaica
Co-founder World Association 
of
Former UN Interns and Fellows (WAFUNIF)


Artists
 

Louise Bennett-Coverley  
Poet, Actress, Folklorist                      Jamaica

Edith Bellot                        
Soloist (soprano)                                  Dominica

UWI Resident Tutor/D’ca,

Choir Director (M’rat, B’dos, D’ca, St.Kitts)

Alicia Alonzo                         
Dance Legend                                         Cuba

Lavinia Williams                   
Dancer/Choreographer                            Haiti

Beryl McBernie                     
Dancer/choreographer                             T&T

Pearl Priums                          
Dance Company/NewRochelle                T&T

Cicely Tyson                          
Actress                                                      St Kitts

Sheryl Lee Ralph                   
Actress                                                      Jamaica

Sandra Thigpen (Whitfield)    
Actress                                                      Jamaica

Marcia McBroom                                    M'rat
Actress
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Actress                                                       Haiti

Judith Kain Cunningham        
Artist (Puerto Cabezas Museum)             Nicaragua   

Daphne Joseph-Hackett           
Theatre                                                       Barbados

Ana Fidelita Quirot                 
World’s Top Woman Athlete                     Cuba           

Euzhan Palcy                         
Filmmaker                                                   Martinique

Misani                          
Journalist/Producer/Literary Critic              Aruba/M’rat/USA
Founder, ICAD-FTL Festival, Inc
Frances-Anne Solomon          
Filmmaker (Canada)                                    T&T

Writers

Maya Angelou                      
Poet                                                           T&T

Nancy Morejon                      
Poet Laureate                                            Cuba

Pearl Ntou Springer               
Poet Laureate                                           T&T

Jean Rhys                              
Novelist                                                     Dominica

Sylvia Wynter                       
Writer / Scholar                                         Jamaica

Marlene Nourbese Phillips    
Toronto-based writer                                 Trinidad

Rosa Guy                               
Novelist                                                      T&T
Elizabeth Nunez            
Novelist                                                      T&T                                           

Paule Marshall                        
Novelist                                                      B’dos

Mary Prince                           
Author   (1831)                                           Antigua

First Afro-Caribbean woman author

Jamaica Kincaid                    
Novelist                                                       Antigua/B’da
Marie-Elena John                  
Novelist                                                       Antigua/B’da

Althea Prince,                
Professor and novelist (Canada)                  Antigua/B’da

Olive Senior                          
Author                                                           Jamaica

Lorna Goodison                    
Author                                                           Jamaica

Velma Pollard               
Author                                                            Jamaica

Pamela Mordecai         
Author                                                            Jamaica

Cynthia James,             
Professor, Author                                           T&T

Merle Collins               
Professor (USA), Author                               Grenada

Grace Nichols                       
Amerindian folk Researcher/Writer (UK)     Guyana

Maryse Conde                       
Novelist                                                        Martinique

Edwidge Danticat                 
Professor/Novelist                                          Haiti

Mirlande Jean-Gilles             
Poet                                                                 Haiti

Dawne Allette-Noel
Author                                                             Grenada


Publishers


Susan L Taylor                      
Editor, Senior V.P., Essence                         St Kitts

Joy Bramble                            
Publisher, Baltimore Times                          M’rat

Founder, Caribbean Literary Festival Antigua/B'da

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