Pamela Gordon

Dame Pamela Felicity Gordon, DBE (born 1955) is a Bermudian politician who served as Premier of Bermuda from March 1997 until November 1998.

Early life and education Gordon was born in Hamilton, Bermuda, in September 1955, the daughter of Edgar F. Gordon, a civil rights activist and labour leader who died six months before her birth, and Mildred Layne Bean. Gordon was the youngest of five children born to her father and mother. Gordon became pregnant at 16, which meant she was forced to leave the private school she attended. Gordon received an honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) degree from the University of New Brunswick in 1998. In 2013, she subsequently received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree (LLD) from her alma mater, Queen's University in Canada.

In December 2015, Gordon was honoured at a gala in New York celebrating female empowerment hosted by the Girl Be Heard theatre company. The company praised Gordon, saying: "Dame Pamela Gordon-Banks has broken countless ceilings, educationally and economically. She thinks globally and acts locally." Gordon-Banks is the recipient of the 2019 George Parkin Service Award at Oxford University.

In 2025, she listed by The Bermudian among "10 of Bermuda's Most Influential Women".