Unity Dow

Unity Dow is a Motswana lawyer, human rights activist, specially elected member of parliament, and a writer. She formerly served as a judge on the High Court of Botswana and in various Botswana government ministries. Born in the Bechuanaland Protectorate to a seamstress and a farmer, who insisted on their children obtaining an education, Dow grew up in a traditional rural village before modernisation. She earned a law degree in 1983 from the University of Botswana and Swaziland, though her studies were completed in Swaziland and University of Edinburgh, Scotland, as Botswana had no law school at the time. After her graduation, Dow opened the first all-woman law firm in Botswana and in 1997 became the first woman to be appointed as a judge to the country's High Court.

23 April 1959

Born on the same birth day (23 April): Barry Douglas (pianist) • Dale Houston • Ed Stewart • Félix Vicq-d'Azyr • James Buchanan • Joanna Krupa • Johann Friedrich Doles • Moose (wrestler) • Neville Brody • Rafael Fernandes (baseball) • Samppa Lajunen • Serge Thériault

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