Office established Elizabeth II (as Queen of Barbados)
8th Governor-General of Barbados
In office 8 January 2018 – 30 November 2021
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Prime Minister
Freundel Stuart Mia Mottley
Preceded by
Philip Greaves (acting)
Succeeded by
Office abolished
Personal details
Born
Sandra Prunella Mason
(1949-01-17) 17 January 1949 (age 75) Saint Philip, Colony of Barbados
Political party
Independent
Education
University of the West Indies, Cave Hill (LLB) Hugh Wooding Law School (LEC)
Occupation
Politician
lawyer
diplomat
Dame Sandra Prunella MasonFB GCMG DA SC (born 17 January 1949) is a Barbadian politician, lawyer, and diplomat who is serving as the first president of Barbados since 2021. She was previously the eighth and final governor-general of Barbados from 2018 to 2021, the second woman to hold the office. On 20 October 2021, Mason was elected by the Parliament of Barbados to become the country's first president, and took office on 30 November 2021, when Barbados ceased to be a constitutional monarchy and became a republic.
Mason was a practicing attorney-at-law who has served as a High Court judge in Saint Lucia and a Court of Appeal judge in Barbados, and was the first woman admitted to the bar in Barbados. She served as chair of the CARICOM commission to evaluate regional integration, was the first magistrate appointed an ambassador from Barbados, and was the first woman to serve on the country's Supreme Court. She was the first appointee from Barbados to the Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal. In 2017, she was appointed the 8th governor-general of Barbados, with a term beginning on 8 January 2018. Simultaneously with her appointment, Mason was awarded the Dame Grand Cross in the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George. On assumption of the office of Governor-General, she became the Chancellor of the Order of National Heroes, Order of Barbados and the Order of Freedom.[1][2]
^"Order of National Heroes Act 1998" (PDF). Government of Barbados. 20 April 1998. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
^Government of Barbados (19 August 2019). "Official Gazette – No. 67 (Package)". Government Information Service. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
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abolished on 30 November 2021. SandraMason was sworn in as the first president of the newly formed republic. In a message to Mason, Queen Elizabeth II sent...
Bagworm, Fall Webworm or Eastern Tent Caterpillar? August 18, 2001. SandraMason, University of Illinois Extension. Accessed May 31, 2010. Archived from...
Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-953583-5. Clark, Sandra; Mason, Pamela, eds. (2015). Macbeth. The Arden Shakespeare, third series....
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of Barbados, in accordance with the Act, are as follows: Chancellor: SandraMason,as Governor General (2018 - 2021) and subsequently as President of Barbados...
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