President Paula Mae Weekes – Trinidad & Tobago

Paula Mae Weekes was sworn in as President of Trinidad and Tobago on March 19 2018.

She succeeds President Carmona as the sixth President of Trinidad & Tobago and is the first woman President.

Education

She attended:

• Bishop Anstey High School, Port of Spain
• University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
• Hugh Wooding Law School

Career

She worked for:

• Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (1982)
• Private Practice (1993)
• Lecturer Hugh Wooding Law School – Ethics
• Puisne Judge – Trinidad & Tobago (1996)
• Justice of Appeal – Trinidad & Tobago (2005)
• Justice of Appeal – Turks & Caicos

Other Pursuits

• Fellow of the Commonwealth Judicial Institute
• She served as Chancellor of the Anglican Church
• She has been a Sunday School teacher at All Saints Church, Marli Street
• She was a marathon runner

Past Presidents

• Sir Ellis Clarke – 1 August 1976 – 13 March 1987
• Noor Hassanali – 19 March 1987 – 19 March 1997
• Arthur Napolean Raymond Robinson – 19 March 1997 – 17 March 2003
• George Maxwell Richards – 17 March 2003 – 18 March 2013
• Anthony Aquinas Carmona – 18 March 2013 – 19 March 2018

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