page_title: Dancia Penn
hierarchical_section_title: Dancia Penn
caption_attribution_description: English: Dancia Penn when being sworn in as Deputy Premier of the British Virgin Islands in 2007.
context_page_description: Ruth Dancia Penn, OBE QC is a British Virgin Islands politician and former Deputy Governor of the British Virgin Islands from 20 September 2004 to 1 April 2007. She also formerly served as the Attorney General of the British Virgin Islands from 1992 to 1999.
  Penn was the first woman to be appointed as Deputy Governor, and the first British Virgin Islander to serve as Attorney General.
  She served briefly as the acting Governor of the British Virgin Islands during 2006 in the gap between Tom Macan leaving office and David Pearey taking up his appointment.
  Professionally Dancia Penn goes by her maiden name, but her legal name has been changed to Mrs Dancia Penn-Sallah since her marriage to Captain Sallah, former Registrar of Ships in the British Virgin Islands.
context_section_description: Ruth Dancia Penn, OBE QC (born 1951) is a British Virgin Islands politician and former Deputy Governor of the British Virgin Islands from 20 September 2004 to 1 April 2007. She also formerly served as the Attorney General of the British Virgin Islands from 1992 to 1999.
  Penn was the first woman to be appointed as Deputy Governor, and the first British Virgin Islander (and so far, the only one) to serve as Attorney General.
  She served briefly as the acting Governor of the British Virgin Islands during 2006 in the gap between Tom Macan leaving office and David Pearey taking up his appointment.
  Professionally Dancia Penn goes by her maiden name, but her legal name has been changed to Mrs Dancia Penn-Sallah since her marriage to Captain Sallah, former Registrar of Ships in the British Virgin Islands.
caption: Dancia Penn-Sallah
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