Lois Michele Young | |
Office: | Permanent Representative of Belize to the United Nations |
Term Start: | 19 September 2012 |
Birth Date: | 19 January 1951 |
Birth Place: | Belize |
Alma Mater: | King's College London |
Lois Michele Young, (born 19 January 1951) is a Belizean diplomat who currently serves as the Permanent Representative of Belize to the United Nations.[1]
Young graduated with a bachelor's degree in law from King's College London. She has been a member of the Bar Association of Belize since 1976, and was previously Head of Chambers at Lois Young Barrow and Co. From 1975 to 1976 she was a Public Prosecutor in the Office of Public Prosecutions, a Crown Counsel in the Ministry of the Attorney General, and a magistrate. She chaired the Belize Social Security Appeals Tribunal from 1989 to 2002 and chaired the Board of Directors of the Social Security Chamber from 2008.