19 Facts About Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers

Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers was born on 13 January 1993 and is an Anguillan politician, lawyer, athlete, former model and beauty pageant titleholder.

Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers has represented the constituency of Valley South in the House of Assembly since 2020.

Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers first received national recognition in athletics, competing for Anguilla at the 2010 and 2014 Commonwealth Games, and at the 2012 CARIFTA Games.

Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers afterwards became a model and beauty pageant titleholder, winning Miss Anguilla 2017 and Miss Universe Great Britain 2018, where she was the second Black British woman after Anita St Rose in 1996 to win the title.

Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers later went on to place in the Top 20 at Miss Universe 2018 as the British representative.

Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers was born on 13 January 1993 in The Valley on the island of Anguilla, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean, and was raised on her family farm.

Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers later began competing in athletics, beginning with the 400 metres and later switching to heptathlon.

Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers subsequently relocated to Birmingham in England to enroll in the University of Birmingham as a law student.

Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree and qualified as a barrister in 2018.

Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers began her pageantry career in 2017, after she was crowned Miss Anguilla 2017.

The pageant was held on 14 July 2018 in Newport, Wales, and Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers went on to be declared the winner.

The pageant was held on 17 December 2018 in Bangkok, where Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers went on to place in the Top 20, advancing as one of the continental semifinalists from Europe.

Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers began a political career in 2020, after announcing her candidacy on behalf of the Anguilla Progressive Movement in the 2020 general election.

Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers was selected to contest the Valley South constituency for the Anguilla House of Assembly, standing against incumbent premier Victor Banks.

The election was held on 29 June 2020, where Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers was elected to the Anguillan parliament.

Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers received the highest number of votes of any constituency candidate standing in the election, and additionally became the youngest person elected to the House of Assembly, aged 27.

Party leader Ellis Webster later took office as premier and formed a seven-person government, nominating Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers to serve as education and social development minister.

In February 2022, Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers served as acting premier for ten days, while Webster was not present in Anguilla; aged 29, she became the youngest person to serve in the position in Anguillan history.

In June 2023, Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers resigned from the government and from the APM in protest of the government's handling of the implementation of the goods and service tax, but was reappointed one week later.