Jamesina King – Vice Chairperson

Jamesina King - Vice Chairperson Commissioner King is a lawyer with a post graduate degree from Georgetown University Law Centre, Washington D.C. and a certificate in “Implementing Human Rights Conventions” from University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre, U.K. She is a Leadership Advocacy for Women in Africa (LAWA) Fellow and past president of Legal Access through Women Yearning for Equality Rights and Social Justice (LAWYERS) – an organization of female lawyers in Sierra Leone dedicated to enhancing women’s access to justice. She was the first Chair of HRCSL, and served in that capacity for two years. She was appointed as Commissioner in 2006 and re-appointed in 2011. </p>