ABOUT SUMMIT MEMBERS

Hillary Summit:

Bridget Cullerton

Bridget Cullerton is Chief Executive Officer of the Belize Citrus Growers Association, Chairperson of the Caribbean Citrus Association, and Belize representative to the Inter-American Citrus Network.

She capped 30 years of professional employment in the United States as Washington State’s Assistant Superintendent of Public Instruction and adjunct professor at several universities before returning to her native Belize in 1992. She earned a B.A. in Political Science and an M.A. in Education Administration while in the U.S. She has represented U.S. and Belizean associations in delegations to the former Soviet Union, Germany, United Kingdom, Cuba and several other countries.

She was honored as Belize’s “Business Woman of the Year”, was invested with an MBE (Member of the British Empire) as part of the Queen’s Honors in 2000, and currently serves as a Justice of the Peace, member of the Regional Educational Council, and President-elect of the local Rotary Club. As a two-time cancer survivor, she was an organizing member of the Belize Cancer Society.

She is a popular and inspirational public speaker whose largely extemporaneous talks have inspired audiences at numerous public events. She lives with her husband and three adopted children in Dangriga, a Garifuna community of 10,000 persons on the Caribbean Seacoast. Most of her seven adult children and 10 grandchildren reside in the United States. She is the daughter of a lighthouse keeper and grew up as the oldest of 10 children on the cayes of Belize.

The Institute honours the memory of one of our founding governors, Bridget Garbutt Lambert Cullerton - who passed away 8:40 P.M. Thursday, September 10, 2009, at her home in Dangriga, Belize.

From 2006 on, Bridget brought her very special blend of wholly unique world-view and deeply compassionate leadership to the development and governance of our work internationally, enriching us all. She will be deeply missed."

HILLARY SUMMIT GOVERNORS