Occah Seapaul

Occah Seapaul is a Trinidadian and Tobagonian lawyer and former Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Occah Seapaul MP
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Trinidad and Tobago
In office 13 January 1992 – 26 November 1995
Prime Minister	Patrick Manning
Preceded by	Nizam Mohammed
Succeeded by	Hector McClean
Personal details
Born	(1940-04-04) April 4, 1940 (age 85)

Seapaul was born on 4 April 1940.^[1] She is an attorney.^[2] She was called to the bar in London in June 1964.^[1] She was the first woman to hold the position Master of the Court in the Caribbean. She was also the first woman appointed as deputy director of public prosecution.^[1]

Seapaul was elected as the first female Speaker of the House of Representatives on 13 January 1992.^[1] The government of Patrick Manning placed her under house arrest in August 1995,^[3] because she was allegedly collaborating with the opposition of United National Congress when an MP of Manning's People's National Movement was expelled from the Parliament.^[4] She eventually ceased to hold the speakership on 26 November 1995.^[2]

Ralph Maraj is the brother is Seapaul.^[5]