Occah Seapaul

Occah Seapaul is a Trinidadian and Tobagonian lawyer and former Speaker of the House of Representatives.

[1] She was the first woman to hold the position Master of the Court in the Caribbean.

She was also the first woman appointed as deputy director of public prosecution.

[1] Seapaul was elected as the first female Speaker of the House of Representatives on 13 January 1992.

[1] The government of Patrick Manning placed her under house arrest in August 1995,[3] because she was allegedly collaborating with the opposition of United National Congress when an MP of Manning's People's National Movement was expelled from the Parliament.