The Editor, Sir:

Regarding the story 'Former St. Andrew High head girl elected US judge' in The Gleaner of December 16, I congratulate Gail Chang Bohr for her success in becoming a United States judge after such an interesting and worthy career. She has made Jamaica proud.

Interestingly, she follows in the footsteps of another Jamaican who took a similar career path.

Mrs Una Tapper was a social worker, heading the Jamaica Children's Services Society before becoming head social worker at the University Hospital of the West Indies.

She founded and was the first president of, the Jamaica Social Workers Association. She lectured in sociology [in Dr. Douglas Manley's position] at the University of the West Indies for a short while.

In 1979, Mrs Tapper migrated to the US, where she studied law at St. Louis University in Missouri, earned a JD degree, and passed the state bar exams in Missouri and Illinois. She worked as a Missouri state prosecutor.

She eventually moved to New York where she passed the New York bar exam at first sitting. She became a judge in short time and retired as a senior New York state judge.

I am, etc.,

LLOYD G TAPPER

llogeta@yahoo.com

St. Albans, New York