PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS/ TRAINING

• University of Windsor, Certificate in Alternative Dispute Resolution,  January, 2009
• Aviation Law for Managers, Aviation Training and Development Institute (IATA) Montreal, Canada July, 2004
• Advanced Training Program on multilateral and regional trade issues for the Americas/ Georgetown University/ World Trade Organization June- July 1999
• Certificate of Legislative Drafting , /Loyola School of Law and Tulane Law School July, 1997
• University of the West Indies – Cave Hill, Barbados, Advanced Diploma, Legislative Drafting, 1991
• Norman Manley Law School, Jamaica, West Indies – Legal Education Certificate, Council of Legal Education, 1987
• University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados, West Indies – Bachelor of Laws (Hons.) 1985
• Bethune- Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Florida – Bachelor of Arts (History) (summa cum laude) 1980

CAREER EXPERIENCE 

• Justice of the Supreme Court of The Bahamas 2014 to present
  • Director of Legal Affairs, Office of the Attorney General , Bahamas March 2005 – 2014
  • Deputy Director of Legal Affairs, Office of the Attorney General, Bahamas – October 2000 – March 2005.  
  • Assistant Director of Legal Affairs, Office of the Attorney General, Bahamas – July 1998 – 2000.  

• Chief Counsel, Office of the Attorney General, Bahamas – July 1997 – July 1998.  
• Senior Counsel, Office of the Attorney General, Bahamas – September 1994 – July 1997.   
•  Acting Registrar General of The Bahamas  October – November, 1994
• Legal Draftsman, Office of the Attorney General , Bahamas– November 1991 – October 1994
•  Assistant Counsel, Office of the Attorney General, Bahamas – October 1987 – October 1991.  

 ORGANIZATIONS / PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS 

• Member of the Advisory Committee established under the National Honors’ Act (2018 to present)
• Member of the Judicial Education Committee of the Supreme Court (2017 to present)
• Attorney General’s Representative on The Bahamas Bar Council, March 2004 – 2009
• Attorney General’s Representative on The Bahamas Bar Council, July 1997 – 1999
• Member of The Bahamas Trade Commission, December 2002 – December 2003

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Alternate Head of Delegation for the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (F.T.A.A.) Negotiating Group on Anti-dumping, Subsides and Countervailing Duties, September 1998 – September 2000
• Alternate Head of delegation for the F.T.A.A Negotiating Group on Dispute Settlement 1998-2000
• Caribbean Financial Action Task Force Mutual Evaluation Examiner, 1998
• Member of The Bahamas delegation for Summit of the Americas Working Group on Money Laundering, Washington , DC April-November 1995
• Legal representative of The Bahamas at US/Bahamas Drug Task Force, 1993-1995
• Member of The Bahamas Bar, October, 1987.