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20th-century Jamaican lawyers

This list has 1 sub-list and 26 members. See also Jamaican lawyers, 20th-century Jamaican people by occupation, 20th-century lawyers by nationality
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  • Tom Tavares-Finson
    Tom Tavares-Finson Jamaican Senator
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    Tom Tavares-Finson (born 7 July 1953) is a Jamaican attorney-at-law and a member of the Senate of Jamaica.
  • P. J. Patterson
    P. J. Patterson Jamaican Prime Minister
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    Percival Noel James Patterson, ON, PC, QC (born 10 April 1935), is a Jamaican former politician who served as the sixth Prime Minister of Jamaica from 1992 to 2006. He was the leader of the People's National Party from 1992 to 2006, and the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Westmoreland South Eastern from 1970 to 1980 (when he lost to Euphemia Williams of the Jamaica Labour Party) and again from 1989 to 1993. Following a constituency reorganization, he served as the MP for Westmoreland Eastern from 1993 to 2006. He retired from all of these positions in January 2006. He was married to Shirley Field-Ridley (d. 1982) with whom he had two children, Richard and Sharon.
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    Carol Lawrence-Beswick is a Jamaican jurist. She currently serves as the senior puisne judge of the Court of Appeal of Jamaica.
  • Bryan Sykes (judge) Jamaican judge
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    Bryan Sykes OJ is a Jamaican judge. He was appointed as the Chief Justice of Jamaica on 1 February 2018 and was sworn in on 1 March 2018.
  • Norman Manley
    Norman Manley Chief Minister of Jamaica
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    Norman Washington Manley MM, QC, National Hero of Jamaica (4 July 1893 – 2 September 1969), was a Jamaican statesman. A Rhodes Scholar, Manley became one of Jamaica's leading lawyers in the 1920s. Manley was an advocate of universal suffrage, which was granted by the British colonial government to the colony in 1944.
  • Richard Hart (Jamaican historian and politician) Jamaican historian, solicitor and politician (1917–2013)
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    Richard Hart (13 August 1917 – 21 December 2013) was a Jamaican historian, solicitor and politician. He was a founding member of the People's National Party (PNP) and one of the pioneers of Marxism in Jamaica. He played an important role in Jamaican politics in the years leading up to Independence in 1962. He subsequently was based in Guyana for two years, before relocating to London in 1965, working as a solicitor and co-founding the campaigning organisation Caribbean Labour Solidarity. He went on to serve as attorney-general in Grenada under the People's Revolutionary Government in 1983. He spent the latter years of his life in the UK, where he died in Bristol.
  • Delroy Chuck Jamaican lawyer, journalist and politician
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    Delroy Chuck is a Jamaican lawyer, journalist and politician. He is currently (2016) the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Saint Andrew North Eastern and the Minister of Justice. Chuck previously served as the Minister of Justice from 2011 to 2012 and as the Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011. He joined the Jamaica Labour Party in 1995 and first contested St. Andrew North Eastern seat in 1997, an election in which he was victorious. He has held his seat ever since and won his fifth term in Parliament in 2016.
  • Neville Ashenheim Jamaican diplomat
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    Sir Neville Noel Ashenheim (18 December 1900 – 1 September 1984) was a Jamaican businessman, lawyer, politician, and served as the first Jamaican Ambassador to the United States. He received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II on 1 January 1963. Ashenheim served his post as ambassador until March 1967 He was the great-grandson of Lewis Ashenheim, who coedited The First Fruits of the West, the first Jewish periodical in the West Indies. Neville himself was a Jew.
  • Tracy Robinson
    Tracy Robinson Jamaican lawyer
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    Tracy S. Robinson is Jamaican attorney and lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of the West Indies (UWI). She served as commissioner on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) from 2012 to 2015 and in 2014 was elected as chair of the organization. She has served as the Rapporteur on the Rights of Women since January 2012 for the Organization of American States (OAS) and helped establish the Rapporteurship on the rights of LGBTI, serving as its first Rapporteur.
  • Cheryl Krusen Person
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    Cheryl Krusen (née Cheryl Thompson) is a Caribbean lawyer. A dual national of Jamaica and Belize, she has served in legal positions in various countries for three decades.
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