Bertha Isaacs

Dame Bertha Isaacs, DBE (1900-1997) was a Bahamian teacher, tennis player, women's rights activist and politician. After career as an elementary school teacher, she played on the international tennis circuit winning both singles and doubles titles in the 1930s. Returning to the Bahamas, she became involved in the Women's suffrage movement in the country, helping gain the vote in 1962. She was the second woman to be appointed as a Senator in the Bahamas and the first woman to be awarded the honorary title of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. An annual trophy awarded at the Commonwealth Caribbean Lawn Tennis Championship bears her name.