Career
She also served as the Leader of Government Business or Majority Leader of the Senate from September 2007 to July 2011. She was born in Aeolus Valley, Street Thomas, and raised as an Anglican. She attended Addey and Stanhope School and Hull University.
She was a Senator 1984-1989 and was Deputy President of the Senate
Senator Lightbourne has come under many criticisms in light of her handling of the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips/Christopher "Dudus" Coke extradition scandal.
She has also come under a lot of public criticism for allegedly lying in the Commission of Enquiry as it relates to the Mannat/Dudus scandal and her rocky relationship with Senator K.D. Knight
Following her dismissal. She has withdrawn from public life and, politically, the roles of Minister of Justice and Attorney General - normally held by the same person - were split.