Kerry has been a member of the SOBHD worldwide panel since 2000 and holds Members in Highland and National with BATD and the Australian examining body VSDA.

She is the principal teacher of the Scottish Highland Dance Academy Western Australia and with her teachers they hold classes in many suburbs of the Perth metropolitan area.

She is the current President of the Western Australian Regional Committee of Highland Dancing and in addition works with Kalgoorlie, 600 kilometres from Perth as the current Technical Secretary of the Eastern Goldfields Western Australia Regional Committee of Highland Dancing, having sat on both those organisations executive for many years.

Kerry originally hailed from Sydney but has lived in Perth for many years. Perth is known as one of the remotest capital cities in the world and competes with Auckland, New Zealand for this title.

As there is only one championship a year in Western Australia. Her dancers must travel extensively to compete due to the distances across Australia and overseas.

SHDA dancers past and present have enjoyed successes with many championships wins and top 6 places through Australia, Canada, USA, and Scotland.

SHDA’s latest success came in the 7 to 11 years and the 16 years and over with their dancers winning two of the three 2024 Champion of Champions Championships of Australia. These results together with other SHDA top 6 places in C of C gave the SHDA the teacher of the Adult Champion OZSCOT shield, and the Top Dance School shield in memory of New Zealand’s Julie Appleton-Seymour. A very special award to Kerry with Julie being not only a colleague but a very dear friend after sharing accommodation and practice space in Scotland over the years.

Kerry lives with her partner Dean in the Indian ocean suburb of Floreat, Western Australia. She has recently retired from her role as a financial advisor with an Australia wide company now giving more time to our great sport of highland dancing.

Kerry is very excited to be judging the Glengarry Championship in Maxville and seeing more of beautiful Canada.

Jennifer has been involved with highland dance since the age of four. As a competitor she enjoyed many successes under the training of Adeline Duncan. She also trained for many years in Tap, Jazz, and extensively in Ballet attending the National Ballet School of Canada.  Jennifer has taught dance for the past 35 years and currently operates the Celtica Highland Dance School in Langley, BC.

She has been very fortunate to have some very successful students that have won many National and International championships. Jennifer is a member of the BATD and the SOBHD Adjudicators panel.  

Principal teacher at Hendry Watt Dance School in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, I feel very fortunate to run such a happy, successful dance school.

Taught by Betty Jessiman, I was fortunate to have had numerous opportunities to perform at His Majesty's Theatre in various shows & pantos. I was also a familiar face on the competitive highland games circuit. 

A fellow member of the UKA SDTA & BATD, I become an RSOBHD Adjudicator in 2011.

I enjoy bringing dancers to be the best they can be and building their confidence & experience travelling the world, competing and performing at the highest level successfully in Highland and Choreography.

Building lifelong friendships and striving to do the best for the dancers, allowing them to accomplish great things, is the main aim of my teaching.

I look forward to adjudicating at the 75th anniversary of the Glengarry games and am very grateful to be given the opportunity.