Elmira Minita Gordon

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Dame Elmira Minita Gordon Template:Post-nominals (30 December 1930 – 1 January 2021) was a Belizean educator, psychologist and politician; she served as the first governor general of Belize from its independence in 1981 until 1993. She was the first Belizean to receive a doctorate in psychology. She is one of the few "double dames", having received damehoods in two separate orders: the Order of St Michael and St George and the Royal Victorian Order.

She was the first woman to serve as governor-general in the history of the Commonwealth.<ref>Dame Elmira Minita Gordon, trailblazing educator and first Governor-General, dead at 90, breakingbelizenews.com. 2 January 2021. Accessed 28 November 2022.</ref><ref>Belize's first Governor General passes away, caribbean.loopnews.com. Accessed 28 November 2022.</ref><ref>Belize's First Governor General to be Honoured with State Funeral, pressoffice.gov.bz. Accessed 28 November 2022.</ref>

Biography

Elmira Minita Gordon was born 30 December 1930 in Belize City, British Honduras.Template:Sfn Her parents, Frederick Gordon and May Dakers,<ref name=":2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> had immigrated from Jamaica to Lucky Strike, Belize in the 1920s.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Gordon had five siblings: Lincoln Coyi, Dorinda Henderson, Kelorah Franklin, Rolston Coyi, and Robert Reyes.<ref name=":2" /> She grew up in Belize City, attending St. John's Girls' School and St. Mary's Primary. Gordon was a member of the Girl Guides from 1946.<ref name="Guardian">Template:Cite news</ref> Years later, in 1970 Gordon became the District Commissioner of the Girl Guides for the Belize district.<ref name="profile" />

Gordon continued her education at St. George's Teachers' College. She also took a correspondence course from the College of Preceptors, Oxford, England.<ref name="Guardian" />

After graduation, she began teaching at an Anglican school. She also served as a missionary throughout Belize between 1946 and 1958. From 1959 to 1969, she was a lecturer at the Belize Teachers' Training College.<ref name="profile">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> From 1969 to 1981, she served as a Government Education Officer.Template:Sfn

Gordon graduated from the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada with a B.Ed. (1967)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and an M.Ed. (1969) specialising in educational psychology.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> She completed postgraduate studies at the University of Nottingham and University of Birmingham in England.<ref name=Guardian/> Between 1977 and 1980, when Gordon was in Canada, she served on the Educational Psychology Programme Planning Committee and was a member of the Toronto Leather Craft Club.<ref name="profile" /> She graduated with a PhD in applied psychology from the University of Toronto in 1980,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> becoming the first trained Belizean psychologist.<ref name="profile" />

She returned to Belize after graduating.<ref name=Guardian /> In 1981 Gordon was appointed as Governor General of Belize.<ref name=term>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She succeeded James P. I. Hennessy, the last Governor of Belize. She became the first Governor-General of Belize upon Belize gaining independence that year.Template:Sfn

Gordon became a justice of the peace in 1974<ref name=Guardian/> and a senior Justice of the Peace in 1987.Template:Sfn Gordon received a lifetime membership of the British Red Cross in 1975,<ref name=Guardian/> and in the Belizean Red Cross in 1981.<ref name=":0" /> In addition to her public works, Gordon was a master leather crafts artisan, having won numerous prizes for her works.Template:Sfn

Gordon stepped down as Governor-General in 1993, and was succeeded by Sir Colville Young.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In later years, poor health prompted her to move to the United States in 2016 to live with her sister, Kelorah Franklin.<ref name=":2" /> She died on 1 January 2021, in Inglewood, Los Angeles County, California, two days after her 90th birthday.<ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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