Four Bermudians celebrated their call to the Bermuda Bar, in front of a courtroom packed with friends, family and colleagues.Puisne Judge Ian Kawaley, who is to serve as Bermuda’s next Chief Justice, presided over the ceremony on Friday.New barristers and attorneys Matthew Carr, Tiffany Faries, Catherine Hay and Cheri Minors donned wigs and gowns to deliver their maiden speeches.All four of them mentored together at law firm Appleby.Mr Carr credited his success to “hard work, determination, good fortune and caffeine”.“I would like to congratulate my fellow trainees on their progress to date,” he said. “Through all the highs and lows of the last year, they have consistently found a way to make fun of me, and I have enjoyed every minute.”A yacht pilot who has raced from Newport to Bermuda, Mr Carr studied law at the University of Reading and Nottingham University.Ms Faries, meanwhile, thanked fiance Stephen Boys, and fellow students “Cheri, with her zest for life, Matt, with his kind heart, and Catherine, with her quirky ways”.She is a graduate of Canada’s Brock University, followed by the University of Kent and Bloomsbury College of Law.Ms Faries worked for Conyers Dill and Pearman from 2007 to 2009, and Cox Hallet and Wilkinson in 2009, before coming to Appleby.Rising for her speech, Ms Hay described Appleby as “like a family to me”.She told Justice Kawaley: “My father would have been pleased as punch to see me standing before you now, my Lord. His voice I have carried in my heart since his passing.”Ms Hay attended Mount St Agnes and Saltus, before majoring in international relations at Brown University. She wrote her senior honours thesis on Bermuda’s independence debate. She then studied at Oxford University’s Exeter College, and at BPP Law School in London.University of Kent student Ms Minors said: “Becoming a member of this respectable profession is an honour I do not take lightly, and one which I will cherish for the rest of my life.”She paid for her studies by working from 2005 to 2007 as a research assistant at Conyers, Dill and Pearman.Crown counsel Leighton Rochester told the gathering that there were now 472 lawyers called to the Bermuda Bar 217 women and 255 men.“We are deeply impressed with these four, and on behalf of the Attorney General’s Chambers, we wish them well,” he said.Justice Kawaley was also applauded for his appointment, to be assumed on April 1 , which Mr Rochester said will make him the Island’s 51st Chief Justice.He told the four: “I wish you all the best. I have every confidence that our future lawyers will be looking up to you, and saying, I would like to be like them.”Useful website: www.bermudabar.org.