Dia C. Forrester is a retired lawyer who served as Grenada’s

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from 1 January 2021 until 1 July 2022, following the

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Early life and education

Forrester is the daughter of cultural activist Don Charles and Agnes Forrester. She has a Bachelor of Laws with Honours from the

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Cave Hill, a Legal Education Certificate of Merit from

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and a Master of Laws in International Banking and Finance law from

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. She was also a national

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player and OECS table tennis team champion.

Career

Forrester has been a member of the Grenada

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since 2008, and the

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and

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bar since 2013, practicing in banking and finance law, commercial and civil litigation, taxation, insolvency and intellectual properly law. She has served on the Grenada National Anti-doping Organisation and the Caribbean Regional Anti-Doping Organisation. She was a partner at the law firm Daniel Brantley. In March 2020, she was named as a defendant in a corruption and breach of confidentiality lawsuit filed in

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against St Kitts and Nevis Foreign Affairs Minister

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by America 2030 Capital Limited. The suit was dismissed on 7 May 2020. Forrester was Solicitor General of Grenada from April 2019 until December 2020, representing the government in negotiations and before courts. In August 2020, she participated in the inaugural Women in Politics Leadership Institute at the

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. Forrester was appointed

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by Prime Minister

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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.

References

External links

Government profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Forrester, Dia Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Female table tennis players University of the West Indies alumni Alumni of University College London Solicitors general Female justice ministers Attorneys General of Grenada 21st-century Grenadian lawyers 21st-century women lawyers