Lashell Adderley

Adderley is a lawyer who has worked as legal counsel for Bahamas First General Insurance,^[2] and as a legal and compliance manager^[3] and corporate secretary for Bahamas First Holdings.^[4][5] In 2024 she received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Northern Caribbean University in Jamaica, awarded in recognition of her career as a legislator, attorney-at-law and economist.^[6]

From 2017, she was a member of the Progressive Liberal Party's constitution committee to review its policies.^[7]

Adderley was appointed President of the Senate the day she was sworn in, 6 October 2021,^[8] the fifth woman to hold the role.^[9] She was appointed at the same time as Patricia Deveaux was made Speaker of the House of Assembly, the first time women have led both houses at the same time.^[10][11][12] Prime Minister Philip "Brave" Davis had been criticised the week prior for a lack of gender equality, with Adderley one of only two female Senate appointments.^[13]

She is a practising Seventh-day Adventist who was raised in the church and is a member of the Johnson Park Seventh-day Adventist Church in New Providence, where she has also served on the school board of Bahamas Academy and on the Constitution and By-Laws Committee of the South Bahamas Conference.^[14][15][16]