Dame Janice Pereira DBE, retired Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court has been appointed by His Majesty King Charles III to His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council. She is the first Virgin Islander to sit on the Privy Council.

Dame Janice M. Pereira, DBE, LLD was sworn in as the first female Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court on 24th October, 2012.  She joined the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court as a High Court Judge in 2003 and later was elevated to the position of Justice of Appeal in 2009. In May 2013 she was awarded Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II.  In March 2018, she was called to the Bench as an Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple.

Dame Janice M. Pereira DBE, LL.D. retired from the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court as Chief Justice earlier this year, on May 5th. 

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