On February 1, 2017, Justice Paula-Mae Weekes was sworn in for a three-year term as a judge of the Turks and Caicos Islands Court of Appeal by Governor Dr John Freeman.
She is a former Justice of Appeal of the Judiciary of T&T where she served for 11 years until her retirement in 2016.
Weekes was appointed a puisne judge of the Supreme Court (criminal jurisdiction) in 1996 and presided there for nine years before being elevated to the Court of Appeal. Prior to her appointment to the bench, she served with the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions for 11 years and in private practice from 1993.
In August 2012, Weekes, as the most senior of the appellate judges in the jurisdiction, was appointed to act as Chief Justice following an accident in which then Acting CJ Wendell Kangaloo sustained serious injuries. CJ Ivor Archie was out of the country at the time.
Weekes, the fifth woman to be appointed a High Court judge in T&T, earned her LLB at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, and Legal Education Certificate from the Hugh Wooding Law School.
Weekes is a trained and experienced judicial educator having become a fellow of the Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute in 2000.
She has designed and delivered programmes extensively in T&T, the OECS and Jamaica over the years.
Justice Mae Weekes, who is from Diego Martin, is single and has no children. She is a former student of Bishop’s Anstey High School.