Alison Quentin-Baxter
New Zealand constitutional lawyer
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- PhD Law University of New Zealand
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Dame Alison Burns Quentin-Baxter was a New Zealand public and international lawyer. She advised a number of small island states on the drafting of their constitutional documents. Early life and education Quentin-Baxter was born in Auckland on 28 December 1929 to Bill and Barbara Souter and grew up there. Both sets of her grandparents were farmers and she spent many holidays on their farms in the Waikato and Kaipara. She attended Epsom Girls' Grammar School and then Nga Tawa Diocesan School and studied law at Auckland University College where she became chair of the students' law society in her final year, the first woman to hold the position. On graduation, she declined an offer of a position in a leading city firm and instead applied to the Department of External Affairs for a job, as she was interested in international affairs and government. She was successful and started working in the department in 1951.
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