Loretta Butler-Turner
Loretta Butler-Turner is a Bahamian mortician and politician for the Free National Movement (FNM). She was the first female in The Bahamas to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in mortuary sciences and became the first female embalmer and mortuary director in the country. In 2007, she was elected as a Member of Parliament, serving initially for the Montagu Constituency and in 2012 was elected for the Long Island Constituency. She also served as Vice President of the Inter-American Commission of Women from 2009 to 2011.
Biography
Loretta Butler-Turner was born in Nassau, The Bahamas[1] to Rose Marie Taylor[2] and Raleigh Butler, who was the son of the first Bahamian Governor-General, Milo Butler. She attended primary and secondary school at St. Andrews in Nassau and was the first Bahamian female to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in mortuary sciences. She graduated summa cum laude from the New England Institute of Mortuary Science.[1]
Butler-Turner was the first female mortuary director and embalmer in The Bahamas, following in her father's business, Butlers’ Funeral Homes and Crematorium of Nassau.[2] She has provided services for several notable deaths, particularly the death of Aaliyah[3] and Daniel Wayne Smith, son of Anna Nicole Smith.[4]
In 2007, she was elected to parliament from the Montagu Constituency and was appointed Minister of State for Social Development in the Ministry of Labour and Social Development.[1] When Jeanette Carrillo Madrigal of Costa Rica resigned her position as Vice President of the Inter-American Commission of Women in November, 2009, Butler-Turner completed the remainder of the term, which ended in 2011.[5] In 2012, Butler-Taylor ran for the parliamentary seat of the Long Island Constituency,[6] was elected and was appointed as Minister of the Department of Social Services.[7] That same year, she was chosen as the Deputy Leader of the Free National Movement (FNM)[8] and ran for the party leadership in 2014.[9] She was defeated by Hubert Minnis and Peter Turnquest, replaced her as Deputy Leader.[10]
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