Mildred Hall-Watson

Mildred Hall-Watson is a Bahamian obstetrician/gynaecologist and politician who was President of the Senate from December 2019 until October 2021.

Hall-Watson graduated from the Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C. in 1977. She was the Medical Director of Health Care Centre for Women and New Beginnings Birthing and Surgical Centre in the Bahamas.

Hall-Watson is a member of the Free National Movement. She became Vice-President of the Senate in May 2017. On 5 December 2019, she was unanimously elected as President of the Senate In May 2020, it was reported that she was Prime Minister Hubert Minnis' first choice to become Minister of Health, however this would have required another Minister resigning as under the country's Constitution only two members of the Cabinet can be from the Senate.

Hall-Watson was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2020 New Year Honours for "services to Medicine and to Civic Involvement."