Jacob Wit

Jacob Wit (24 December 1952 – 16 January 2024) was a Dutch jurist who was justice of the Caribbean Court of Justice, and located in Trinidad and Tobago. Beginning in 2010 he also served as the president of the Constitutional Court of Sint Maarten, and was once a judge of the Rotterdam District Court and the Common Court of Justice of the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba. After completing his military service (1976–1978) as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Dutch Navy. Wit was admitted in March 1978 as a judicial trainee at the Studiecentrum Rechtspleging (Training and Study Centre for the Judiciary) in Zutphen, where he remained until 1984. During this period, he held the posts of law clerk in the Rotterdam District Court, Rotterdam, (1978–1980) and deputy prosecutor at the Amsterdam District Court (1980–1982) and worked as an attorney-at-law with the law firm of Van Doorne & Sjollema in Rotterdam.