Mavis Gibson is a
Zimbabwe
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an lawyer and judge who was the first black woman appointed to
High Court of Zimbabwe
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, and the first female and longest serving-justice of the
High Court of Namibia.
Born Mavis Gumede in Zimbabwe, Gibson was originally a journalist. In the 1970s, she was a
barrister
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with chambers in
Lincoln's Inn
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,
London
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.
Gibson was a Judge of the High Court of Zimbabwe for eleven years,
[ and the country's first black woman judge.][ On her retirement in April 2008 she was the longest-serving member of the High Court.][
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See also
*List of first women lawyers and judges in Africa
This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Africa. It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are the first women in their country to achieve a certain distinction such as ...
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Zimbabwean women lawyers
20th-century Zimbabwean judges
Namibian judges
Women judges