Katherine Forbes-Smith | |
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President of the Senate of the Bahamas | |
In office May 2017 –December 2019 | |
Prime Minister | Hubert Minnis |
Preceded by | Sharon R. Wilson |
Succeeded by | Mildred Hall-Watson |
Personal details | |
Political party | Free National Movement |
Katherine Forbes-Smith is a Bahamian lawyer and politician and former President of the Senate of the Bahamas.
She is a member of Free National Movement. [1] She was first time appointed as member of the Senate of the Bahamas in 2001 and 2007. [2] In 2007 she was appointed as parliamentary secretary in the office of prime minister Hubert Ingraham. [3] Then she was appointed as the first consul general of the Bahamas to Atlanta,USA,until 2017. [2]
Forbes-Smith was appointed as the President of the Senate of the Bahamas in May 2017. [4] She resigned in November 2019 to lead disaster management agency (Disaster Reconstruction Authority) in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian. [5] Her contract as the leader of the agency was cancelled in 2021 following PLP victory in the 2021 elections. [6]
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