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): Dennis Culp • Dolph Briscoe • Henry Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel • Jaime King • Kal Penn • Martín López-Zubero • Michel Fokine • Patrick Olsen • Rafael Fernandes (baseball) • Ray Tomlinson • Rhéal Cormier • Signe Ronka

Born in the same month (April 1959): Alain Bondue • Alison Ramsay • Brian Setzer • Emma Thompson • Ezzaki Badou • Li Meisu • Marco Pirroni • Marie-Thérèse Fortin • Pedro Pierluisi • Phil Morris (actor) • Pierre Lacroix (ice hockey, born 1959) • Sean Bean • Sheena Easton • Zahid Maleque