Ivor Archie (born August 18, 1960) is a Trinidadian

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who has served as chief justice of

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since 2008. He was formerly solicitor general of the Cayman Islands.

Personal life

He was born on August 18, 1960 in

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. He attended Scarborough Anglican Boys’ School, Bishop’s High School, and St Mary’s College. He is married to Denise Rodriguez-Archie and they have two children, Chinyere and Sean.

Career

He graduated with a BSc in Mechanical Engineering ( upper second class honours) from the

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in 1980. He worked as an engineer at Trintoplan Consultants Limited in

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and at

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. Archie then studied law at the

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, receiving his LLB in 1984. He received his Legal Education Certificate at Hugh Wooding Law School in

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. He was admitted to the Bar of Trinidad and Tobago in 1986. Archie worked initially for Clarke and Company. He then served as

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and Senior Crown Counsel for the governments of Trinidad and Tobago, the

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and the Cayman Islands. He was Solicitor General of the Cayman Islands and acted on occasion as the

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. On March 1, 1998, he was appointed a puisine judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature. He became a Justice of Appeal on April 2, 2004 and chief justice on January 24, 2008. He is the eighth chief justice of Trinidad and Tobago and the youngest person to have taken the role. He is Chairman of the Judicial and Legal Services Commission, President of the Trinidad and Tobago Judicial Education Institute, and a fellow of the Board of the Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute. In 2013, he received the

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