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The Jamaican Bar Association is a voluntary organisation of attorneys-at-law called to the Jamaican Bar. [1] It was formed on 16 January 1973. The association is not a regulatory or disciplinary body and has no power to hear complaints against attorneys, even if they are members of the association.
Hilary Phillips: [191] First female to serve as the President of the Jamaican Bar Association (2001) Zaila McCalla (1976): [192] First female justice appointed as the Chief Justice of Jamaica (2007) Margarette May Macaulay: [193] First Jamaican female to serve as a Judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2007)
Rowe is a member of the Florida Bar and the Jamaica Bar. He began his career as an associate at the law firm Greenberg Traurig in Miami, from 1982 to 1984, until he was hired by Holland & Knight. At Greenberg, he worked with former US Ambassador Ambler Moss and former Florida Governor Reubin Askew. Rowe worked for Holland & Knight from 1984 to ...
He was educated at the Jamaica College; McMaster University (Ontario, Canada); the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London; and the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. [3] He is a member of the Bar Association of Jamaica, the Advocates Association of Jamaica, and the Lay Magistrates’ Association.
Phillips was called to the Bar on August 8, 1974. She was appointed Queen's Counsel in April 1998. She is a member of the Bar Association of Jamaica, and served as its first female president from 2001 to 2004. [3] [4] Phillips worked at the Norman Manley Law School as a tutor in civil procedure since 1994. She has been a member of the General ...
Jamaica Bar; L. Law Society of Zimbabwe; N. New South Wales Bar Association; New Zealand Bar Association; New Zealand Law Society; O. Order of Attorneys of Brazil; P.
Jewel Scott – first Jamaican American judge in Georgia. First Jamaican American (female) appointed as a Judge of the Clayton County Superior Court. First woman and first Caribbean-American District Attorney for Clayton County. [77] [78] Alison Smith – lawyer, first black woman president of Florida's Broward County Bar Association [79] [80]
Shirley Miller OJ, CD, KC (born 1937) is a Jamaican attorney and one of the first women admitted as Queen's Counsel in the Caribbean.Admitted to the inner bar in 1971, she became the first Queen's Counsel in Jamaica and has served in numerous capacities, including as head of the Legal Reform Department and on the Electoral Advisory Committee.