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

106 in 1943.  In 1971, he became Chancellor of the University of the West Indies.  He was a member of the Constitutional Reform Committee, 1947-1948 and our first Chief Justice after independence,1962-1968. There is a collection of his material at the West Indiana and Special Collections Division at UWI. MONA RIGSBY (1918-1996) O n September 5th 1939, Mona Marjorie Rigsby became the first Trinidadian Female Barrister at Law in Trinidad. She was home schooled by her mother before attending St. Joseph Convent. where she sat the Oxford and Cambridge School Certificate exams at age 15. In 1935, at age 17, Rigsby passed the Matriculation examination for London University, and in October of that year proceeded to Middle Hall where she would distinguish herself by taking honours in her Roman Law, Criminal Law and Procedure examinations. On June 21st, three months after she turned 21, she was called to the Bar in England, becoming the youngest barrister in the British Empire and the first Trinidadian woman lawyer to be recognized by the Courts.