The time has come to fully leave our colonial past behind.

Sandra Mason

Dame Sandra Prunella Mason, GCMG, DA, QC (born 17 January 1949), is a Barbadian politician, lawyer, and diplomat who is the eighth, current and last governor-general of Barbados since 2018 and the president-elect of Barbados. She will become the first president of Barbados on 30 November 2021, when the country will cease to be a constitutional monarchy and become a republic.Mason was a practising attorney-at-law who has served as a High Court judge in Saint Lucia and a Court of Appeal judge in Barbados, and was the first woman admitted to the Bar in Barbados. She served as chair of the CARICOM commission to evaluate regional integration, was the first magistrate appointed as an ambassador from Barbados, and was the first woman to serve on the country's Supreme Court. She was the first appointee from Barbados to the Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal. In 2017, she was appointed as the 8th governor general of Barbados, with a term beginning on 8 January 2018. Simultaneously with her appointment, Mason was awarded the Dame Grand Cross in the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George. On assumption of the office of Governor-General, Dame Sandra Mason became the Chancellor of the Order of National Heroes, Order of Barbados and the Order of Freedom.

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