Patricia Elaine Joan Rodgers (born 13 July 1948) is a Bahamian diplomat who served as the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the High Commissioner in the United Kingdom (16 May 1988 – 30 October 1992), and in Canada. In 2014, Rodgers was awarded the

Janet Bostwick Dame Janet Gwennett Bostwick (née Musgrove; born 30 October 1939) is a Bahamian lawyer and politician. She entered politics in 1977 with an appointment to the Senate. She was the first woman to serve as acting Prime Minister, first woman Attorne ...

Medal for Women in the Foreign Service.

Education

Rodgers holds a

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degree in English from the

University of Aberdeen The University of Aberdeen ( sco, University o' 'Aiberdeen; abbreviated as ''Aberd.'' in List of post-nominal letters (United Kingdom), post-nominals; gd, Oilthigh Obar Dheathain) is a public university, public research university in Aberdeen, Sc ...

(1970), and a Diploma in

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from the

University of the West Indies The University of the West Indies (UWI), originally University College of the West Indies, is a public university system established to serve the higher education needs of the residents of 17 English-speaking countries and territories in th ...

St Augustine, Trinidad (1972), and a PhD from the

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in Geneva (1981).

Books

* ''Midocean archipelagos and international law'': ''A study in the progressive development of international law''. Vantage Press. 1981. .

References

1948 births Alumni of the University of Aberdeen Bahamian women ambassadors High Commissioners of the Bahamas to Canada High Commissioners of the Bahamas to the United Kingdom Living people University of the West Indies alumni Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies alumni {{diplomat-stub