JAMAICAN FEMALES IN DIASPORA - POLITICS JANET NOSWORTHY: Appointed to the Special Tribunal on Lebanon at the International Criminal Tribunal in Brussels. Between 2005 and 2009, Judge Nosworthy was Ad Litem Judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Judge Nosworthy initially worked as a Prosecutor in the Jamaican Resident Magistrates Court. DIANE ABBOTT: (born 27 September 1953) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987, when she became the first black woman to be elected to the Commons. In 2010, Abbott became Shadow Public Health Minister. She was born to Jamaican immigrants in London in 1953. Her father was a welder and her mother a nurse. DOREEN LAWRENCE: Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon, OBE (born 24 October 1952) is a campaigner famous as the mother of Stephen Lawrence, a British teenager who was murdered in a racist attack in South East London in 1993. She promoted reforms of the police service, and founded the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust. She was awarded the OBE for services to community relations in 2003, and was made a life peer in 2013. Lawrence was born in Jamaica in 1952. At the age of nine, she emigrated to England. CLAUDIA GORDON: the first deaf Black female attorney in the United States. She currently works in the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. She is also the first deaf person to work at the White House. She was born in Jamaica. She became deaf at the age of eight.
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