2026 Winner: Advocate Barbara Corbett
The Award was presented to Barbara Corbett for her involvement in recent changes to the divorce, parentage and surrogacy laws as well as the free legal support she provides to families who cannot afford legal representation.
The Award caps more than a decade of efforts to modernise areas of Jersey law including no-fault divorce and granting equal parental rights to same-sex couples.
2025 Winner: Kate Wright – Chair of the Violence Against Women & Girls Taskforce
The 2025 Award was presented to Kate Wright for her work as independent Chair of the Violence Against Women and Girls Taskforce. The Report, which was published in November 2023, had 77 recommendations.
Kate was also nominated as a contributor to ConnectMe.je, a social prescribing programme led by the Government of Jersey, and for her work as the CEO of the domestic abuse charity FREEDA, formerly the Jersey Women’s Refuge.
2024 Winner: Joy Thomson – Jersey Federation of the Women’s Institutes
Joy received the 25th Inspirational Woman of the Year Award for her decades of charity of work in the Island. She is Federation Chair of Jersey’s Women’s Institutes branches, Chair of the Jersey Association for Spina Bifida & Hydrocephalus, Vice-President of Glanville Voluntary Committee and other charitable roles.
To celebrate this important milestone for the Award, it was presented at an afternoon tea at Government House. More than 100 people were in attendance and guests included Dr Karen Kyd, Patron of Soroptimist International Jersey, the Lieutenant-Governor, Vice-Admiral Jerry Kyd and President of SIGBI, Ruth Healey, Kate Wright was the invited speaker.
