Trinidad and Tobago-born jurist Margaret Price Findlay has officially been appointed the 14th Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, marking another historic milestone for the regional judiciary.
Justice Price Findlay, who had been serving in the role in an acting capacity since May 2025, was formally confirmed during a ceremony held at the court’s headquarters in Castries, Saint Lucia. She becomes the first woman from Trinidad and Tobago to hold the prestigious office and only the second woman overall to lead the ECSC.
Her appointment has been widely welcomed across the Eastern Caribbean legal fraternity, particularly in the British Virgin Islands where she built much of her legal career after relocating there in 1991.
Born in Diego Martin, Trinidad, Justice Price Findlay attended Holy Name Convent before earning her law degree from the University of the West Indies. She practised law in Trinidad and Tobago between 1987 and 1991 before moving to the Virgin Islands, where she established the law firm Price Findlay & Co. She also served as a magistrate in the territory’s courts.
In 2009, she was appointed as a High Court Judge of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court by the Judicial and Legal Services Commission and was assigned to Grenada. She later rose to the Court of Appeal before being selected to act as Chief Justice in 2025.
During her official appointment ceremony, Justice Price Findlay delivered an emotional address reflecting on her decades-long legal journey and the support of family, colleagues and mentors.
“If anyone had told me when I arrived in the BVI in January 1991 that I would stand before you as Chief Justice of this venerable institution and only the second woman to hold this office, I would have certainly not believed you,” she said.
She also acknowledged the challenges of assuming leadership of one of the Caribbean’s most respected judicial bodies, noting that she was following “some of the finest legal minds that have graced this institution.”
The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court serves six independent OECS member states — Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines — as well as the British Overseas Territories of Anguilla, the Virgin Islands and Montserrat.
Legal observers throughout the region have described the appointment as a significant moment for Caribbean jurisprudence and for women in leadership within the regional justice system.