List of female speakers of national and territorial lower houses

Lower house is the one of two chambers in the bicameral legislature. Lower house has more power than the upper house. One of its powers include impeach the executive in presidential republics or remove the Prime Minister in semi-presidential republics. Its members are elected by popular votes, compared to the upper house members who are usually appointed. This list presents female speakers of upper house of their respective countries or territories.

National

  Denotes incumbent speaker
Name Image Country Legislative Body Mandate start Mandate end Term length
Elisabeth Blunschy   Switzerland National Council 1977 1977 ?
Nilde Iotti  Italy Chamber of Deputies 20 June 1979 22 April 1992 12 years, 307 days
Lidia Gueiler Tejada  Bolivia Chamber of Deputies August 1979 November 1979 92 days
Jeanne Sauvé  Canada House of Commons 14 April 1980 15 January 1984 3 years, 276 days
Hedi Lang   Switzerland National Council 1981 1982 1 year, 0 days
Lindsay Bolden  Barbados House of Assembly 1984 1986 2 years, 0 days
Joan Child  Australia House of Representatives 11 February 1986 28 August 1989 3 years, 198 days
Betty Boothroyd  United Kingdom House of Commons 27 April 1992 23 October 2000 8 years, 179 days
Gret Haller   Switzerland National Council 1993 1994 1 year, 0 days
Takako Doi  Japan House of Representatives 6 August 1993 27 September 1996 3 years, 52 days
Bridgett Harris  Antigua and Barbuda House of Representatives 1994 29 March 2004 10 years, 88 days
Irene Pivetti  Italy Chamber of Deputies 16 April 1994 8 May 1996 2 years, 22 days
Frene Ginwala  South Africa National Assembly 9 May 1994 23 April 2004 9 years, 350 days
Judith Stamm   Switzerland National Council 1996 1997 1 year, 0 days
Violet Nielson  Jamaica House of Representatives 1997 2003 6 years, 0 days
Rome Italia Johnson  Bahamas House of Assembly 9 April 1997 22 May 2002 5 years, 43 days
Sylvia Flores  Belize House of Representatives 1998 2001 3 years, 0 days
Trix Heberlein   Switzerland National Council 1998 1999 1 year, 0 days
Jeltje van Nieuwenhoven  Netherlands Tweede Kamer 20 May 1998 16 May 2002 3 years, 361 days
Ntlhoi Motsamai  Lesotho National Assembly 1999 2012 13 years, 0 days
Rafaela de González  Dominican Republic Chamber of Deputies 1999 2003 4 years, 0 days
Nancy Patricia Gutiérrez  Colombia Chamber of Representatives 20 July 1999 20 July 2000 1 year, 0 days
Luisa Fernanda Rudi Ubeda  Spain Congress of Deputies 5 April 2000 8 April 2004 4 years, 3 days
Elizabeth Zabaneh  Belize House of Representatives 2001 2008 7 years, 0 days
Liliane Maury Pasquier   Switzerland National Council 2001 2002 1 year, 0 days
Adriana Muñoz D'Albora  Chile Chamber of Deputies 14 March 2002 18 March 2003 1 year, 4 days
Isabel Allende  Chile Chamber of Deputies 18 March 2003 16 March 2004 364 days
Giselle Isaac-Arindell  Antigua and Barbuda House of Representatives 29 March 2004 June 2014 10 years, 64 days
Baleka Mbete  South Africa National Assembly 23 April 2004 25 September 2008 4 years, 155 days
Zulema Jattin Corrales  Colombia Chamber of Representatives 20 July 2004 20 July 2005 1 year, 0 days
Nora Castro  Uruguay Chamber of Deputies 1 March 2005 1 March 2006 1 year, 0 days
Thérèse Meyer   Switzerland National Council 8 March 2005 28 November 2005 265 days
Christine Egerszegi   Switzerland National Council 2006 2007 1 year, 0 days
Barbara Prammer  Austria National Council 30 October 2006 2 August 2014 7 years, 276 days
Gerdi Verbeet  Netherlands Tweede Kamer 6 December 2006 20 September 2012 5 years, 289 days
Nancy Pelosi  United States House of Representatives 4 January 2007 3 January 2011 3 years, 364 days
Sarah Flood-Beaubrun  Saint Lucia House of Assembly 9 January 2007 September 2008 1 year, 236 days
Patricia Etteh  Nigeria House of Representatives 6 June 2007 30 October 2007 146 days
Diloram Tashmukhamedova  Uzbekistan Legislative Chamber 23 January 2008 12 January 2015 6 years, 354 days
Fahmida Mirza  Pakistan National Assembly 19 March 2008 3 June 2013 5 years, 76 days
Rosemary Husbands-Mathurin  Saint Lucia House of Assembly September 2008 6 January 2012 3 years, 127 days
Gwen Mahlangu-Nkabinde  South Africa National Assembly 25 September 2008 6 May 2009 223 days
Rose Mukantabana  Rwanda Chamber of Deputies 6 October 2008 3 October 2013 4 years, 362 days
Chiara Simoneschi-Cortesi   Switzerland National Council 28 November 2008 28 November 2009 1 year, 0 days
Roberta Anastase  Romania Chamber of Deputies 19 December 2008 3 July 2012 3 years, 197 days
Meira Kumar  India Lok Sabha 4 June 2009 4 June 2014 5 years, 0 days
Ivonne Passada  Uruguay Chamber of Deputies 1 March 2010 1 March 2011 1 year, 0 days
Alejandra Sepúlveda Orbenes  Chile Chamber of Deputies 11 March 2010 15 March 2011 1 year, 4 days
Miroslava Němcová  Czech Republic Chamber of Deputies 1 May 2010 28 August 2013 3 years, 119 days
Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert  Jamaica House of Representatives 13 July 2011 12 December 2011 152 days
Ewa Kopacz  Poland Sejm 8 November 2011 22 September 2014 2 years, 318 days
Betty Asunta Tejada Soruco  Bolivia Chamber of Deputies 24 July 2012 25 January 2015 2 years, 185 days
Anouchka van Miltenburg  Netherlands Tweede Kamer 25 September 2012 12 December 2015 3 years, 78 days
Anna Burke  Australia House of Representatives 9 October 2012 12 November 2013 1 year, 34 days
Maya Graf   Switzerland National Council 28 November 2012 28 November 2013 1 year, 0 days
Laura Boldrini  Italy Chamber of Deputies 16 March 2013 Incumbent 3 years, 266 days
Donatille Mukabalisa  Rwanda Chamber of Deputies 3 October 2013 Incumbent 3 years, 65 days
Bronwyn Bishop  Australia House of Representatives 12 November 2013 2 August 2015 1 year, 263 days
Baleka Mbete  South Africa National Assembly 21 May 2014 Incumbent 2 years, 200 days
Sumitra Mahajan  India Lok Sabha 5 June 2014 Incumbent 2 years, 185 days
Doris Bures  Austria National Council 2 September 2014 Incumbent 2 years, 96 days
Gabriela Montaño Viaña  Bolivia Chamber of Deputies 21 January 2015 Incumbent 1 year, 321 days
Ntlhoi Motsamai  Lesotho National Assembly 10 March 2015 Incumbent 1 year, 272 days
Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska  Poland Sejm 25 June 2015 11 November 2015 139 days
Borjana Krišto  Bosnia and Herzegovina House of Representatives 7 August 2015 8 April 2016 245 days
Bridgit Annisette-George  Trinidad and Tobago House of Representatives 23 September 2015 Incumbent 1 year, 75 days
Christa Markwalder   Switzerland National Council 28 November 2015 28 November 2016 1 year, 0 days
Khadija Arib  Netherlands Tweede Kamer 13 December 2015 Incumbent 360 days
Leonne Theodore-John  Saint Lucia House of Assembly 12 July 2016 Incumbent 148 days
Ana Pastor Julián  Spain Congress of Deputies 19 July 2016 Incumbent 141 days
Lucía Medina  Dominican Republic Chamber of Deputies 16 August 2016 Incumbent 113 days

Territorial

Name Image Territory Legislative Body Mandate start Mandate end Term length
María L. Gómez Garriga  Puerto Rico House of Representatives 1945 1945 ?
Jenniffer González  Puerto Rico House of Representatives 12 January 2009 1 January 2013 3 years, 355 days

See also

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