Profiles: Heroes, Role Models and Pioneers of Trinidad and Tobago - by Nasser Khan

105 State Counsel in the Attorney General’s Chambers from 1965 and then as Treasury Solicitor (Acting) from 1979 before being appointed as a Senior Counsel in 1981. Justice Permanand was the first woman to be appointed Solicitor General in Trinidad and Tobago in 1980 and in 1983 became the second female High Court Judge. She was appointed as the first female Judge of the Court of Appeal in 1993 and served in that role until 2002. On two occasions during her time as an Appeal Court Judge she was called upon to act as Chief Justice of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Justice Jean Permanand has gone on to perform as the Chairman of the Law Reform Commission, as a member of the Law Revision Committee and as a member of the Judicial Legal and Services Commission. In 2003 she received the Chaconia Medal Gold. LENNOX A. P. O’REILLY (1880-1949) H e was the chairman of two very important committees: firstly the Franchise Committee in 1941 and later the Constitutional Reform Committee in 1947. He was also an important person as a lawyer, politician, businessman and sports administrator. CHARLES WILLIAMS WARNER (1807-1887) F ather of Pelham Warner, he was an important barrister, attorney- general and politician in the 1840’s to 1860’s, easily one of the most powerful people in Trinidad during this period. During this time he led the campaign to make our laws and institutions more English and less French or Spanish. He did more than anyone else in the setting up of Queen’s Royal College. HUGH O. B. WOODING (1904-1974) S ir Hugh Wooding, S.C., O.B.E., was a brilliant lawyer after whom The Hugh Wooding Law School at UWI is named. His contribution was not only to the law, but also in politics as Mayor of Port of Spain