Josette Borel-Lincertin (born 12 August 1941), is a French politician from Guadeloupe.
Her mother was a baker and she brought up a family of four children with benevolent authority.
After her baccalaureate, Borel-Lincertin went to study in Paris and returned in 1964, aged 22, to begin a teaching career that would last 40 years.
[2] She was initially assigned as principal of the college of Pointe-Noire, in the north of Basse-Terre, in Guadeloupe.
She then became a principal, and ended her career at Lycée Gerville-Réache in Basse-Terre in 2004.