Lois Browne-Evans
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Dame Lois Marie Browne-Evans DBE, JP, MP led the Bermudan PLP in opposition before being appointed Bermuda's first female Attorney-General. She first gained recognition in 1953 as the Bermuda's first female barrister.
[edit] Bermudan Independence
Lois Browne-Evans has predicted that Bermuda will achieve independence from the UK. Dame Lois, who led the PLP from 1968-1972 and again from 1976-1985 was speaking after a keynote address by Premier Alex Scott at the party’s Founder’s Day Luncheon.
[edit] Background
Lois Browne-Evans is the longest serving PLP MP, and represented the Devonshire North Constituency (Bermuda) from 1963 until 1985. She was the first black woman to be elected to Parliament in 1968 and gained world-wide recognition as the first female Opposition Leader in the British Commonwealth
She stepped down in 1972, and in 1976 was elected as leader of the PLP and became Leader of the Opposition once again. She held this position from 1976 to 1985, when she once again stepped down to be appointed to the office of Attorney-General.
She has debated at the historic London and Bermuda Constitutional Conferences and served as delegate to numerous international conferences in Africa, New Zealand, the USA and the Caribbean.
She is a member of the International Federation of Women Lawyers and is founding member of the Bermuda Business and Professional Women's Club; she was also the first female member of the Devonshire Recreation Club in Hamilton, Bermuda.
Lois Browne-Evans is founding partner of Browne & Wade Chambers, located at 65 Court Street, Hamilton, Bermuda.
