Murietta Olu-Williams
Sierra Leonean civil servant, the first woman in Africa to achieve the rank of Permanent Secretary in the Civil Service.
About Murietta Olu-Williams
Born 1923. Murietta Olu-Williams is a Sierra Leonean civil servant.
Murietta Patricia Olu-Williams, OBE ( Metzger; born 15 December 1923) was a Sierra Leonean civil servant, the first woman in Africa to achieve the rank of Permanent Secretary in the Civil Service.
Life Murietta Olu-Williams was born on 15 December 1923, the only daughter of Dr. G. N. Metzger, a Freetown doctor of Creole heritage. She was educated at the Freetown Secondary School for Girls, where she was a pupil of Hannah Benka-Coker. On 25 August 1969 she was admitted to the Middle Temple.
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Sierra Leonean civil servant, the first woman in Africa to achieve the rank of Permanent Secretary in the Civil Service.
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Murietta Olu-Williams was born on 15 December 1923 in Freetown.
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Murietta Olu-Williams is Sierra Leonean.
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