Glenda Morean Phillip

Her Excellency, Mrs. Glenda Patricia Morean-Phillip, Senior Counsel, is currently the High Commissioner for the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to London with accreditation to Germany, Finland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway.

In 1974 she enrolled as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Trinidad and Tobago, and has the distinction of being the first Trinidad and Tobago born woman in her country to qualify as a solicitor. She engaged in private practice as head of her law firm up to 2001. During the period 1989 to 1991 she accomplished yet another milestone by being the first female to hold the position of President of the Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago. During the periods 1992 to 1995 and 1998 to 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 to 2001, and acted as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Trinidad and Tobago from 1999 to 2000.

Mrs. Morean-Phillip has sat on and chaired numerous Boards and Commissions in Trinidad and Tobago, including Chairperson of the Nursing Commission between 1980 and 1981, Commissioner of the Public Utilities Commission between 1981 and 1986, and Deputy Chairperson of the Airports Authority of Trinidad and Tobago between 1993 and 1996. She has also been actively involved in public service and community development activities in Trinidad and Tobago, and has been Honorary President of the Blind Welfare Association of Trinidad and Tobago from 1994 to the present. She was also the first female president of the Tennis Association of Trinidad and Tobago from 1991 to 1997.

She was appointed a member of the Senate, the Upper House of Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago in 2001, andachieved yet another milestone for women in her country by being the longest serving Attorney General of the Republic of Trinidad from December 2001 to November 2003. She was appointed as High Commissioner for the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to London in November 2003.

Source: Trinidad and Tobago High Commission to London
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