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Baroness Scotland talks about her cabinet
appointment
ROSEAU, Dominica, August 29, 2007
- Britain's new attorney general, vacationing in her
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native Dominica,
has been speaking about her appointment to the
Gordon Brown administration.
Baroness Patricia Scotland told reporters here that
she was "very humbled" by the response from all
shades of opinion following her appointment in June.
"I have been very humbled because my appointment has
been met with total delight not only by the black
community but what has really surprised and warmed
and pleased me is that it has been greeted with
universal acclaim and that is something that has
deeply humbled me.
"The Bar of England and Wales have appeared
delighted as have the Judiciary and others and that
is something which I hope to honour and fulfil
because I certainly don't want to disappoint,"
Baroness Scotland said at a press conference
Tuesday.
The Baroness, who was born in the west coast village
of St. Joseph in 1955, also told the media that
being a Dominican has always been a source of
immense pride to her.
"I am as all of you know very proud to be Dominican
and very proud always to come home. This is the
country of my birth. It is something I have always
been extremely proud to acknowledge and I am
particularly proud that in choosing a woman to
become Attorney General our Prime Minister chose a
black, Caribbean, Dominican woman to do that role.
And I hope it demonstrates that in this small island
with less than 70,000 people, we can produce people
of real talent and I know that I am not the only
Dominican who has the ability and/or the talent to
reach high office...."
Prior to her appointment as Attorney General,
Baroness Scotland served with distinction as
Parliamentary Secretary in the Lord Chancellor's
Department from 2001 to 2003 and Parliamentary
Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign and
Commonwealth Office from 1999-2001.
Baroness Scotland has achieved many firsts in her
long and distinguished career.
In 1991, she made legal history becoming the first
black female QC (Queens Counsel) at the age of 35.
Her appointment as Attorney General made her the
first woman to hold that post and the first
Dominican to be appointed to a cabinet post in the
United Kingdom.
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