List of female speakers of national and territorial lower houses

This list presents female speakers of national and territorial lower houses of their respective countries or territories. The lower house is one of two chambers in a bicameral legislature. The lower house has more power than the upper house. It usually has the power to 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.

National
  Denotes incumbent speaker
Name Image Country Legislative Body Mandate start Mandate end Term length
Ragnhildur Helgadóttir  Iceland Lower House of the Althing 1961 1962 1 year, 0 days
Annemarie Renger  West Germany Bundestag 13 December 1972 14 December 1976 4 years, 1 day
Ragnhildur Helgadóttir  Iceland Lower House of the Althing 1974 1978 4 years, 0 days
Elisabeth Blunschy   Switzerland National Council 2 May 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 28 November 1981 28 November 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
Rita Süssmuth  Germany Bundestag 25 November 1988 26 October 1998 9 years, 335 days
Occah Seapaul  Trinidad and Tobago House of Representatives 13 January 1992 27 November 1995 3 years, 318 days
Betty Boothroyd  United Kingdom House of Commons 27 April 1992 23 October 2000 8 years, 179 days
Gret Haller   Switzerland National Council 28 November 1993 28 November 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 Alburquerque  Dominican Republic Chamber of Deputies 16 August 1999 16 August 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 28 November 2001 28 November 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
Barbara Prammer  Austria National Council 30 October 2006 2 August 2014 7 years, 276 days
Christine Egerszegi   Switzerland National Council 28 November 2006 28 November 2007 1 year, 0 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 22 March 2018 5 years, 6 days
Donatille Mukabalisa  Rwanda Chamber of Deputies 5 October 2013 Incumbent 7 years, 124 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 22 May 2019 5 years, 1 day
Sumitra Mahajan  India Lok Sabha 5 June 2014 17 June 2019 5 years, 12 days
Doris Bures  Austria National Council 2 September 2014 9 November 2017 3 years, 68 days
Gabriela Viaña  Bolivia Chamber of Deputies 25 January 2015 24 January 2019 3 years, 364 days
Ntlhoi Motsamai  Lesotho National Assembly 10 March 2015 12 June 2017 2 years, 94 days
Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska  Poland Sejm 25 June 2015 11 November 2015 139 days
Borjana Krišto  Bosnia and Herzegovina House of Representatives 9 August 2015 8 April 2016 243 days
Bridgid Annisette-George  Trinidad and Tobago House of Representatives 23 September 2015 Incumbent 5 years, 136 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 5 years, 55 days
Leonne Theodore-John  Saint Lucia House of Assembly 12 July 2016 20 March 2018 1 year, 251 days
Ana Pastor Julián  Spain Congress of Deputies 19 July 2016 21 May 2019 2 years, 306 days
Lucía Medina  Dominican Republic Chamber of Deputies 16 August 2016 16 August 2017 1 year, 0 days
Laura Tucker-Longsworth  Belize House of Representatives 13 January 2017 6 October 2020 3 years, 267 days
Guadeloupe Murguía Gutiérrez  Mexico Chamber of Deputies 1 March 2017 7 September 2017 190 days
Borjana Krišto  Bosnia and Herzegovina House of Representatives 9 August 2017 8 April 2018 242 days
Elisabeth Köstinger  Austria National Council 9 November 2017 18 December 2017 39 days
Maya Fernández Allende  Chile Chamber of Deputies 11 March 2018 19 March 2019 1 year, 8 days
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo  Philippines House of Representatives 23 July 2018 30 June 2019 342 days
Marina Carobbio Guscetti   Switzerland National Council 26 November 2018 2 December 2019 1 year, 6 days
Borjana Krišto  Bosnia and Herzegovina House of Representatives 6 December 2018 5 August 2019 242 days
Fawzia Zainal  Bahrain House of Representatives 12 December 2018 Incumbent 2 years, 56 days
Nancy Pelosi  United States House of Representatives 3 January 2019 Incumbent 2 years, 34 days
Cecilia Bottino  Uruguay Chamber of Representatives 1 March 2019 14 February 2020 350 days
Jeannine Mabunda  DR Congo National Assembly 24 April 2019 Incumbent 1 year, 288 days
Meritxell Batet  Spain Congress of Deputies 21 May 2019 Incumbent 1 year, 261 days
Thandi Modise  South Africa National Assembly 22 May 2019 Incumbent 1 year, 260 days
Elżbieta Witek  Poland Sejm 9 August 2019 Incumbent 1 year, 181 days
Puan Maharani  Indonesia People's Representative Council 1 October 2019 Incumbent 1 year, 128 days
Isabelle Moret   Switzerland National Council 2 December 2019 30 November 2020 364 days
Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert  Jamaica House of Representatives 15 September 2020 Incumbent 144 days
Eliane Tillieux  Belgium Chamber of Representatives 13 October 2020 Incumbent 116 days
Borjana Krišto  Bosnia and Herzegovina House of Representatives 6 December 2020 Incumbent 62 days
Valerie Woods  Belize House of Representatives 11 December 2020 Incumbent 57 days

Territorial
Name Image Territory Legislative Body Mandate start Mandate end Term length
María L. Gómez Garriga  Puerto Rico House of Representatives 1945 1945 ?
Zaida Cucusa Hernández  Puerto Rico House of Representatives 11 January 1993 12 December 1996 3 years, 355 days
Jenniffer González  Puerto Rico House of Representatives 12 January 2009 1 January 2013 3 years, 355 days
Hannah Yeoh  Selangor Selangor State Legislative Assembly 21 June 2013 09 April 2018 4 years, 292 days
S.Thangeswary  Perak Perak State Legislative Assembly 09 August 2016 09 April 2018 1 year, 213 days

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