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Mildred Hall-Watson
President of the Senate of the Bahamas
In office
December 2019 – October 2021
Prime MinisterHubert Minnis
Preceded byKatherine Forbes-Smith
Succeeded byLashell Adderley
Personal details
Political partyFree National Movement

Mildred Hall-Watson MBE is a Bahamian obstetrician/gynaecologist and politician who has been President of the Senate since December 2019.

Hall-Watson graduated from the Howard University College of MedicineinWashington, D.C. in 1977.[1][2]

Hall-Watson is an Obstetrician/Gynecologist. She is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the International College of Surgeons, and a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.[1][2] She was the Medical Director of Health Care Centre for Women and New Beginnings Birthing and Surgical Centre in the Bahamas.[1] She was the Director of the Bahamas PACE Foundation (Providing Access to Continued Education).[3]

Hall-Watson is a member of the Free National Movement.[4] She became Vice-President of the Senate in May 2017. On 5 December 2019, she was unanimously elected as President of the Senate[1] after being nominated by Attorney General Carl Bethel.[5][6] In May 2020, it was reported that she was Prime Minister Hubert Minnis' first choice to become Minister of Health, however this would have required another Minister resigning as under the country's Constitution only two members of the Cabinet can be from the Senate.[7]

Hall-Watson was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2020 New Year Honours for "services to Medicine and to Civic Involvement."[8]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Mildred Hall-Watson". Caribbean Elections. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  • ^ a b "DR. MILDRED HALL-WATSON, CLASS OF 1977, APPOINTED VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE OF THE BAHAMAS". Howard University Medical Alumni Association. 6 December 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  • ^ Rassin, Michele (26 July 2010). "Doctors Hospital lends a hand to teen moms at PACE". The Bahamas Weekly. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  • ^ Jones, Royston Jr. (5 June 2019). "FNM Senator calls on MP to "be a man"". Eyewitness News. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  • ^ Scott, Rachel (6 December 2019). "Mildred Hall-Watson elected as Senate president". The Nassau Guardian. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  • ^ "Senate elects two women to top posts". Eyewitness News. 5 December 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  • ^ "Senate President Dr. Mildred Hall-Watson is PM's first choice as new Health Minister…". Bahamas Press. 5 May 2020. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  • ^ "Order of the British Empire". The Gazette. 28 December 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2021.

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