Pamela J. Brown, also known in high school as Jacqueline Abraham, was born on the island of Trinidad, where she graduated from St. Joseph's convent, St. Joseph. She pursued her post-secondary studies in Sussex and London, England, where she obtained two registered nursing degrees. She left England in 1978 for the United States, where she started a new career teaching computer software at EDS. In 1989 she relocated to Florida with her family and was employed at Florida Atlantic University. She now resides there with her husband, Arthur, sons, Arthur Jr. and Richard, daughters-in-law, Janelle, Crystal and her two grandchildren Caulen and Kayleigh.