Jamaica just lost Ena Collymore-Woodstock at 108, and she was basically the country's first woman to do everything in law. She got orphaned young in Spanish Town, served as a radar operator during World War II in Belgium and Britain, then hit up law school in London, where she was the only woman on the debate team at Gray's Inn before getting called to the British Bar.
She came back home and became the first female Court Clerk after initially getting rejected because officials thought women could not handle it, and then she kept stacking firsts as Crown Solicitor and Resident Magistrate. She dragged her three kids around while working circuit courts, ran the Juvenile Courts system when it launched, and kept judging in Turks and Caicos, plus Anguilla, after retiring from the Jamaican bench as Senior Resident Magistrate.
She came back home and became the first female Court Clerk after initially getting rejected because officials thought women could not handle it, and then she kept stacking firsts as Crown Solicitor and Resident Magistrate. She dragged her three kids around while working circuit courts, ran the Juvenile Courts system when it launched, and kept judging in Turks and Caicos, plus Anguilla, after retiring from the Jamaican bench as Senior Resident Magistrate.
