Guyanese jurist, Louise Blenman, has been sworn in as Belize’s new Chief Justice

Guyanese jurist, Louise Blenman, has been sworn in as Belize’s new Chief Justice

Her Ladyship, the Hon. Justice Louise Esther Blenman

 graduated from the University of the West Indies in 1986 with a Bachelor of Laws Degree (LL.B.) with Upper Second Class Honors. She later obtained the Legal Education Certificate from the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad in 1988. She was called to the Bar in Guyana, in 1988. Justice Blenman obtained the Masters of Law Degree (LL.M.) with merit from the University of London.

Justice Louise Blenman has been in the field of law for over thirty years now, including serving as a High Court judge in Anguilla in 2003. She was later appointed to the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal in 2012 and served there up until recently. She has also served in senior judicial positions in St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, and Antigua and Barbuda.

She has been sworn in as Belize’s new Chief Justice and replaces Kenneth Benjamin, who retired in March 2020. She is the first woman to ever be appointed to the post.

Source:

https://amandala.com.bz/news/new-chief-justice-louise-blenman-sworn-in/