Some women dream for the stars, while others rocket right past them to the far depths of the universe. Such is the case with entrepreneur Dr. Jacqueline Patricia James-Lyttle. Not only is she an accomplished business women, a Civil and Architectural engineer, the owner of a a restaurant, a record label, and a is a Philanthropist, but she just happens to be the wife of international SOCA recording sensation Kevin Lyttle. But even though she is married to a chart topping music phenomenon, she just might be the real rockstar in the family!
Hailing from the small island nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr. Lyttle (or Jackie we grew to know her) has had more accomplishments than the Caribbean has islands. For starters, she is the first black female engineering graduate of the United States Coast Guard Academy and holds a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from the prestigious university. And as if the time she spent there wasn't filled with enough mathematical equations and other mind bending intellectual matter to keep her locked away in some dark corner of the campus library studying away all 24 hours in her day, she somehow found the time and wherewithal to run track and field as a scholar athlete and set four school records which still stand unbroken to this day. Pretty phenomenal stuff for a young girl from a small island town tucked away near the southern tip of the Windward Islands. But wait, there is a plethora more to this fairytale story.
As she waited with her degree and accolades in hand for the St. Vincent government to open a promised officer spot for her in the nation's military, (an institution that is traditionally a male only fraternity) she decided to move forward and further her education at the University of Miami, Florida, and would go on to achieve a Doctorate in Civil and Architectural Engineering. Mrs. James-Lyttle was now Dr. James-Lyttle!
So what would motivate a girl from a tropical island paradise surrounded by blue waters and warm ocean breezes to leave and seek out the more shark infested and male dominated waters of the engineeringworld? "Well, I wasn't in love with it." She explains (Referring to engineering). " (Continued)