Arnold Joseph Nicholson

Arnold Nicholson (2013)

Arnold Joseph Nicholson , QC , (born February 28, 1942 in Rock River , Clarendon ) is a Jamaican politician with the People's National Party (PNP). He was Jamaica's Justice Minister from 2001 to 2007 and Secretary of State from January 2012 to March 2016 .

Life

Nicholson attended Rock River Elementary School and Excelsior High School before studying first at the University College of the West Indies, then at the Middle Temple Inn of Court in London and at the University of London . From 1964 to 1968 he worked in the banking industry. He was admitted to the bar in 1972 and practiced as a lawyer in Jamaica and elsewhere in the Caribbean from then until 1992.

He was first elected to the House of Representatives in the 1989 Jamaican general election, where he represented the constituency of West Central St. Andrew until 1997 . Between 1992 and 1995 he was Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Education and Culture, from January 1995 he was Minister of State in the Ministry of Legal Affairs until he was appointed Attorney General in September of that year . He was named a Senator in January 1998 and became Jamaican Minister of Justice on November 1, 2001. He remained in this office until the PNP was defeated in the parliamentary elections in September 2007.

After the PNP won the December 29, 2011 elections and resumed government, he was reappointed Senator and Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller appointed him Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade . He was sworn in as minister on January 6, 2012. He was succeeded on March 7, 2016 by Kamina Johnson Smith .

Nicholson is married and has two children.

Web links

Profile as Minister of Justice and Attorney General ( Memento from August 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

Commons : Arnold Nicholson - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

^ PM Simpson Miller Names Senators ( March 2, 2012 memento on the Internet Archive ), Government of Jamaica, Office of the Prime Minister, January 16, 2012. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
↑ Assignment of Ministers ( Memento of February 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Government of Jamaica, Office of the Prime Minister, January 6, 2012. Retrieved February 24, 2012.

personal data
SURNAME	Nicholson, Arnold Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Jamaican politician (PNP)
DATE OF BIRTH	February 28, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rock River , Clarendon

[1] PM Simpson Miller Names Senators ( March 2, 2012 memento on the Internet Archive ), Government of Jamaica, Office of the Prime Minister, January 16, 2012. Retrieved February 24, 2012.

[2] Assignment of Ministers ( Memento of February 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Government of Jamaica, Office of the Prime Minister, January 6, 2012. Retrieved February 24, 2012.