Sharon Ffolkes-Abrahams

Sharon Annette Ffolkes-Abrahams is a Jamaican attorney-at-law and politician who served as member of parliament and Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce from 2012 to 2016.

She is a graduate of the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, where she obtained her first degree in law.

She is a former legal counsel with both the Ontario Human Rights Commission and the Advocacy Resource Centre for the Handicapped (ARCH).

She is a former member of the York Region Accessibility Advisory Committee under the Ontarians with Disabilities Act.

[5] Upon her return home to Jamaica and prior to entering representational politics, she lectured in law at the University of Technology in Montego Bay.