Lucille M. Mair

Lucille Mathurin Mair, (née Walrond; 1924 – 28 January 2009), was a Jamaican ambassador, author, diplomat and gender specialist.

[4] From 1981 to 1982, she served as special advisor to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Women's Development at the level of assistant secretary general.

In March 1982, Mair was appointed as Under Secretary General of the United Nations, becoming the first woman ever to hold such a title.

[7] United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed his condolences through a statement, praising Mair as a "lifelong champion of the rights of women".

[8] The International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) awarded its honorary doctorate to Lucille Mair in 1988.