Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo has paid trib­ute to re­tired Judge Am­ri­ka Ti­wary-Red­dy who died on April 6. In a mes­sage post­ed on the Face­book page of the Of­fice of the Pres­i­dent on Sat­ur­day, Pres­i­dent Kan­ga­loo said she was “deeply sad­dened by the death of re­tired Judge of the High Court, Jus­tice Am­ri­ka Ti­wary-Red­dy.”

The mes­sage stat­ed that Jus­tice Ti­wary-Red­dy served as a Sen­a­tor in the Na­tion­al Al­liance for Re­con­struc­tion gov­ern­ment and act­ed as At­tor­ney Gen­er­al on sev­er­al oc­ca­sions (1989 to 1991), be­com­ing the first woman to do so. She al­so served as a mem­ber of the Cab­i­net-ap­point­ed Pub­lic Ser­vice Re­view Task Force and of the Coun­cil of the Bar As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (1982 to 1986).

The post on Face­book added Jus­tice Ti­wary-Red­dy was ad­mit­ted to the Bar in Eng­land in 1968 and in T&T the fol­low­ing year. She was ap­point­ed a Puisne Judge in 1999, and by her re­tire­ment in 2011, she was the most se­nior fe­male Judge on the High Court bench.

Ac­cord­ing to the Pres­i­dent, per­haps most no­table on her list of ac­co­lades was her ap­point­ment, at the age of 18, as the first prin­ci­pal of Lak­sh­mi Girls’ Hin­du Col­lege.

In 2012, Jus­tice Ti­wary-Red­dy re­ceived the Cha­co­nia Medal GOLD, the na­tion’s sec­ond-high­est award, in recog­ni­tion of her years of dis­tin­guished ser­vice to Trinidad and To­ba­go in the sphere of Law. The Of­fice of the Pres­i­dent of­fered sin­cere con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly and friends of re­tired Jus­tice Ti­wary-Red­dy.