The Bermuda Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee has announced that Michèle Smith has been selected as Bermuda's Rhodes Scholar 2010. Ms Smith has been accepted at Pembroke College and intends to study for a BA in jurisprudence.

Ms Smith attended the Bermuda High School for Girls and graduated in 2006. While at school, she was an honours student throughout the later years and passed GCSEs in several subjects with top grades. She also completed the International Baccalaureate with a near perfect score.

Ms Smith is currently studying for an honours degree in history with minor concentrations in political science and economics at McGill University in Montréal, Canada. She has been on the Dean's Honour List throughout her time at McGill and was awarded the Michael Silverthorne Book Prize by the history department for her work.

Having received and maintained the Edward Beatty Entrance Scholarship, Ms Smith also held the Dudley & Deborah Butterfield Scholarship when she began at McGill in 2006. During her studies there she also became a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society, and received the Sara and Maurice Greenblatt Scholarship for Academic Achievement.

Meanwhile, Ms Smith is also involved in the Classics Students' Association and has been an editor for Hirundo, McGill's classical studies journal, for the past three years.

Ms Smith has assisted in the organisation of McGill's Model United Nations Conference for the past two years and co-founded the Non-Governmental Organisations Committee.