Lois Browne-Evans
Dame Lois Marie Browne-Evans
Background
Browne-Evans was educated at King's College London and became Bermuda's first female barrister in 1953 after being called to the bar at
In 1998, the PLP achieved its first electoral victory. Browne-Evans was appointed Minister of Legislative Affairs and became the country's first female Attorney-General in 1999. That year, she circumvented a party ban on accepting
She debated at the London and Bermuda Constitutional Conferences and served as delegate to numerous international conferences in Africa, New Zealand, the USA and the Caribbean. Outside politics Browne-Evans was a member of the International Federation of Women Lawyers and a founding member of the Bermuda Business and Professional Women's Club. She was the first female member of the Devonshire Recreation Club and a founding partner of Browne & Wade Chambers in Hamilton.
Position on independence
Despite her
Family
Lois Marie Browne was born on Parson's Road, Pembroke, one of four children of James Browne, a contractor and owner of the Clayhouse Inn, and his wife Emmeline (née Charles). Her parents and grandparents emigrated to Bermuda from
She married Trinidadian-born John Evans in 1958, and the couple had three children: Ernestine, Donald, and Nadine.[7] John Evans co-founded, in 1976, the West Indian Association of Bermuda.[8]
Legacy
Several months after her death, the PLP government under Premier Dr.
See also
- First women lawyers around the world
References
- ^ "Notice of death of Dame Lois Browne-Evans". The Royal Gazette. [permanent dead link]
- ^ "Career of Lois Browne-Evans". The Royal Gazette. [permanent dead link]
- ^ "Bermuda Drops Ban on Accepting Queen's Honors". Reuters. 17 January 2001. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
- ^ "Independence: The Way Forward", Full text of Premier Alex Scott's speech from the PLP Founders Luncheon on 28 February 2004". The Royal Gazette. 1 March 2004. Archived from the original on 12 December 2013. Retrieved 19 August 2012.
- ^ "Independence within five years?". 1 March 2004. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
- ^ J. Randolf Williams, Lois: Bermuda's Grand Dame of Politics, Camden Editions, 2001, pp. 16–17.
- ^ "Dame Lois Browne-Evans' biodata". Bernews. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
- ^ Ceola Wilson (24 August 2012). "Tributes for icon of Bermuda's West Indian community". The Royal Gazette. Retrieved 18 December 2017.