Background
Saunders was born in Saint Vincent.
Saunders was born in Saint Vincent.
He earned his Bachelor of Laws degree with honours from the University of the West Indies in 1975.
Since 2005, he has been a judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice. In 1996, Saunders was appointed a judge of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC). He became a High Court Judge in 1997 and from 1997 to 2001 served as a judge in Montserrat and Anguilla.
In 2001, he began serving as a judge in Saint Lucia.
In 2003, Saunders became a Justice of Appeal of the ECSC and in 2004 he became the acting Chief Justice of the ECSC, succeeding Dennis Byron. As Chief Justice, he was the supreme judicial officer of the courts of Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, the British Virgin Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
In 2005, he was appointed as a judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice and stepped down from the ECSC.