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): Alistair Brownlee • Alysia Montaño • Bobby Shaw • Carlos Dengler • Gail Goodrich • George Canseco • George Lopez • Johann Stumpf (writer) • Martín López-Zubero • Michael Kerr (rugby union) • Michael Lynne • Ngaio Marsh • Urmas Ott

Born in the same month (April 1959): Ana María Polo • Bernard Jenkin • Brian Setzer • Daniel Kash • Emma Thompson • Gelindo Bordin • Jimmy Mann (ice hockey) • John Corabi • Li Meisu • Marco Pirroni • Pedro Pierluisi • Phil Morris (actor) • Pierre Lacroix (ice hockey, born 1959) • Robert Smith (musician) • Terry Francona • Yves Lavandier