| Katherine Forbes-Smith | |
| Office1: | President of the Senate of the Bahamas |
| Primeminister1: | Hubert Minnis |
| Term Start1: | May 2017 |
| Term End1: | December 2019 |
| Predecessor1: | Sharon R. Wilson |
| Successor1: | Mildred Hall-Watson |
| Party: | Free National Movement |
Katherine Forbes-Smith is Bahamian lawyer and politician and former President of the Senate of the Bahamas.
She is a member of Free National Movement.[1] She was first time appointed as member of the Senate of the Bahamas in 2001 and 2007.[2] In 2007 she was appointed as parliamentary secretary in the office of prime minister Hubert Ingraham.[3] Then she was appointed as the first consul general of the Bahamas to Atlanta, USA, until 2017.
Forbes-Smith was appointed as the President of the Senate of the Bahamas in May 2017.[4] She resigned in November 2019 to lead disaster management agency (Disaster Reconstruction Authority) in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian.[5] Her contract as the leader of the agency was cancelled in 2021 following PLP victory in the 2021 elections.[6]