Education
University of Nottingham.
University of Nottingham.
She has served as Deputy Premier and Minister of Education, Youth, Sports and Culture of the Turks and Caicos Islands since 18 November 2012. In 2006, Missick was called to the bar of England and Wales and the bar of the Turks and Caicos Islands. She then went to work as an associate for the law firm of Misick & Stanbrook, where she specialised in dispute resolution, company law, and commercial law.
In August 2012 she appeared with Ariel Misick before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, representing pilot Richardson Arthur in his appeal against a decision of the Court of Appeal in a land registration dispute with the Turks and Caicos Islands government.
However, the appeal was dismissed, with Terence Etherton writing the unanimous opinion. She was formerly Secretary-General of the PNP. In August 2012, Missick announced that she would be seeking the PNP"s nomination to stand in Leeward District 5, Providenciales for the 2012 general election.
Due to provisions in the new 2011 Constitution of the Turks and Caicos Islands, this required her to renounce any foreign allegiance she held by virtue of her own acting As Attorney-General Huw Shepheard commented, those who were merely born in foreign countries would not be affected by these changes, but those who had applied for foreign passports as adults would be.
Missick renounced her United States citizenship in mid-October, and was officially nominated on 25 October.
She emerged victorious in the election, and the week afterwards was named as Deputy Premier and Minister of Education, Youth, Sports and Culture.
She resigned from that position in August 2009 to protest statements made by Michael Misick, but continued her membership in the party.
Missick became a member of the Progressive National Party in 2002. Missick, though the only United States.-born candidate, was far from the only one to had to take quick action to renounce foreign citizenship. Bahamas-born People"s Democratic Movement deputy leader Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson and several other members of her party were also affected, and the newly formed People"s Progressive Party stood in danger of having all of its candidates disqualified.