Dame Ivy Leona Dumont DCMG (née Turnquest; born 2 October 1930),[1] is a Bahamian politician who served as the seventh governor-general of the Bahamas.
[3] Around this same time, Turnquest married Reginald Dumont (1920 – 17 December 2011)[5] a Guyanese immigrant who was working for the Bahamas Police Force on 24 August 1951.
[6] She began working for the Ministry of Education and Culture as a student teacher[4] and earned her full teaching certificate in 1954.
[7] In 1962 and 1963, she studied in the United States as a Fulbright scholar and then in 1965, earned a General Certificate of Education from the Teachers' Union Institute.
[8][9] She resigned from the post on 30 November 2005 and the following day was feted with a farewell ceremony commemorating her fifty-eight years in public service.