HER EXCELLENCY HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR THE REPUBLIC OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Her Excellency Glenda Patricia Morean-Phillip, Senior Counsel, enrolled as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago in 1974, and has the distinction of being the first Trinidad-born woman in her country to qualify as a Solicitor. She engaged in active private practice as head of her law firm up to 2001. During the period 1989-1991, she again accomplished another milestone by being the first female to be nominated to the position of President of the Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago. During the periods 1992-1995, and 1998-1999 she also served as a Member of the Disciplinary Committee of the Law Association. From 1987 to 2001, she served as an Associate Tutor on the Faculty of the Hugh Wooding Law School, St. Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies. She was also appointed by Cabinet as a Member of the Legal Aid and Advisory Authority from 1994-2001. Mrs. Morean-Phillip acted as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Trinidad and Tobago from 1999 to 2000. She sat on numerous Boards in Trinidad and Tobago, including: Chairperson of the Nursing Commission between 1980-1981; Commissioner of the Public Utilities Commission between 1981-1986; Deputy Chairperson of the Airports Authority of Trinidad and Tobago between 1993-1996. Her Excellency has been actively involved in public service and community development activities in her country and has been Honorary President of the Blind Welfare Association of Trinidad and Tobago from 1994 to the present and was also the first female President of the Tennis Association of Trinidad and Tobago from 1991-1997. She was appointed as a Member of the Senate, the Upper House in the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago, in 2001 and achieved yet another milestone for women in her country by being the longest serving female Attorney General of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago from December 2001 to November 2003. She was appointed as High Commissioner for the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to London in November 2003 |
