Dia Forrester
Dia C. Forrester is a Grenadian lawyer who served as Grenada's first woman to be appointed attorney general. Her tenure was from 1 January 2021 until 1 July 2022, following the 2022 general election. She is now the head of Forrester Legal Chambers a full service commercial and civil law firm - https://forresterlc.com/about-us/.
Early life and education
[edit]Forrester is the daughter of cultural activist Don Charles and Agnes Forrester.[1] She has a Bachelor of Laws with Honours from the University of the West Indies Cave Hill, a Legal Education Certificate of Merit from Hugh Wooding Law School and a Master of Laws in International Banking and Finance law from University College London.[2] She was also a national table tennis player and OECS table tennis team champion.[3]
Career
[edit]Forrester has been a member of the Grenada bar since 2008, and the Saint Kitts and Nevis and Anguilla bar since 2013,[2] practicing in banking and finance law, commercial and civil litigation, taxation, insolvency and intellectual properly law.[1] She has served on the Grenada National Anti-doping Organisation and the Caribbean Regional Anti-Doping Organisation.[2] She was a partner at the law firm Daniel Brantley.[4] In March 2020, she was named as a defendant in an alleged corruption and breach of confidentiality lawsuit filed in Colorado against St Kitts and Nevis Foreign Affairs Minister Mark Brantley by America 2030 Capital Limited.[5][6] The suit was dismissed on 7 May 2020.[7]
Forrester was Solicitor General of Grenada from April 2019 until December 2020, representing the government in negotiations and before courts.[2][3][8] In August 2020, she participated in the inaugural Women in Politics Leadership Institute at the US Embassy in Barbados.[9]
Forrester was appointed attorney general by Prime Minister Keith Mitchell on 31 December 2020, to commence on 1 January 2021, replacing Darsham Ramdhani who stepped down to serve as a judge. Forrester became the first woman to hold the post.[1][2] She served as a High Court Judge of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in the territory of Antigua and Barbuda in January and February 2023.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Grenada Appoints First Female Attorney General". Caribbean National Weekly. 31 December 2020. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ a b c d e Strake, Linda (31 December 2020). "Dia Forrester appointed Grenada's first woman Attorney General". Now Grenada. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ a b "Dia Forrester appointed as Grenada's new Attorney General". The New Today. 31 December 2020. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ "Ms. Dia C. Forrester". HG Legal Resources.
- ^ "Multiple charges filed in a United States Court against St Kitts-Nevis Foreign Affairs Minister Mark Brantley". KSN Web News. 12 March 2020. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ "A US Company Is Suing The Foreign Affairs Minister Of St. Kitts And The Premier Of Nevis". News Americas. 9 March 2020. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ "America 2030 Capital Limited v. BRANTLEY et al (1:20-cv-00551), Colorado District Court".
- ^ Straker, Linda (10 April 2019). "New Solicitor General appointed". Now Grenada. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ "2 Antiguans among 27 young women to graduate from U.S. Embassy's Women in Politics Leadership Institute". Antigua News Room. 31 August 2020. Retrieved 1 January 2021.