List of elected or appointed female deputy heads of state

This is a list of women who have been elected or appointed deputy head of state of their respective countries. This list does not include female deputy heads of government who are not concurrently deputy head of state, such as deputy prime ministers.

List of female deputy heads of state

  Denotes incumbent deputy head of state

• Italics denotes an acting head of state and states that are either de facto (with limited to no international recognition) or defunct.

Name	Image	Country	Continent	Office	Mandate start	Mandate end	Term length
Soong Ching-ling	80px	People's Republic of China	Asia	Deputy Chairperson	1 October 1949	27 September 1954
Soong Ching-ling	80px	People's Republic of China	Asia	Deputy Chairperson	27 April 1959	24 February 1972
Maria Paretti		Romania	Europe	Vice President	1961	1966
Constanţa Crăciun		Romania	Europe	Vice President	1966	1970
Isabel Martínez de Perón		Argentina	America	Vice President	12 October 1973	1 July 1974
Maria Ciocan		Romania	Europe	Vice President	1980	1985
Anahita Ratebzad		Afghanistan	Asia	Deputy Chairman of the Revolutionary Council	27 December 1980	24 November 1985
Emine Guri		Albania	Europe	Vice President	22 November 1982	22 November 1989
Viola Harper Burnham		Guyana	America	Vice President	6 August 1985	9 October 1991
Maria Ghitulicâ		Romania	Europe	Vice President	1985	1989
Victoria Garrón Orozco		Costa Rica	America	Second Vice President	8 May 1986	8 May 1990
Nguyễn Thị Bình	80px	Vietnam	Asia	Vice President	15 February 1987	25 November 2002
Blaga Dimitrova		Bulgaria	Europe	Vice President	22 January 1992	6 July 1993
Tatjana Ljujić-Mijatović		Bosnia-Herzegovina	Europe	Member of the Presidency	5 October 1992	5 October 1996
Specioza Kazibwe		Uganda	Africa	Vice President	1994	2003
Guadalupe Jerezano Mejía		Honduras	America	Third Vice President	27 January 1994	27 January 1998
Rebeca Grynspan		Costa Rica	America	Second Vice President	8 May 1994	8 May 1998
Julia Mena		Nicaragua	America	Vice President	2 January 1995	2 January 1997
Rosalía Arteaga		Ecuador	America	Vice President	10 August 1996	9 February 1997
Rosalía Arteaga		Ecuador	America	Vice President	11 February 1997	30 March 1998
Janet Jagan		Guyana	America	Vice President	6 March 1997	19 December 1997
Isatou Njie-Saidy	80px	The Gambia	Africa	Vice President	20 March 1997	Incumbent
Masoumeh Ebtekar		Iran	Asia	Vice President	2 August 1997	3 August 2005
Gladys Caballero de Arevalo		Honduras	America	Second Vice President	27 January 1998	27 January 2002
Astrid Fischel Volio		Costa Rica	America	First Vice President	8 May 1998	8 May 2002
Elizabeth Odio Benito		Costa Rica	America	Second Vice President	8 May 1998	8 May 2002
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo		Philippines	Asia	Vice President	30 June 1998	20 January 2001
Megawati Sukarnoputri		Indonesia	Asia	Vice President	26 October 1999	23 July 2001
Annette Lu	80px	Taiwan (Republic of China)	Asia	Vice President	20 May 2000	20 May 2008
Milagros Ortiz Bosch		Dominican Republic	America	Vice President	16 August 2000	16 August 2004
Adina Bastidas		Venezuela	America	Vice President	24 December 2000	13 January 2002
Sandra Pierantozzi		Palau	Oceania	Vice President	19 January 2001	1 January 2005
Armida Villela de López Contreras		Honduras	America	Second Vice President	27 January 2002	27 January 2006
Lineth Saborío Chaverri		Costa Rica	America	First Vice President	8 May 2002	8 May 2006
Trương Mỹ Hoa		Vietnam	Asia	Vice President	25 November 2002	20 January 2007
Teima Onorio	80px	Kiribati	Oceania	Vice President	10 July 2003	12 March 2016
Ana Vilma de Escobar	80px	El Salvador	America	Vice President	1 June 2004	1 June 2009
Joice Mujuru	80px	Zimbabwe	Africa	Vice President	6 December 2004	8 December 2014
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka		South Africa	Africa	Deputy President	22 June 2005	24 September 2008
Fatemeh Javadi		Iran	Asia	Vice President	3 August 2005	5 August 2009
Alice Nzomukunda		Burundi	Africa	Vice President	29 August 2005	5 September 2006
Najah al-Attar		Syria	Asia	Vice President	23 March 2006	Incumbent
Laura Chinchilla		Costa Rica	America	First Vice President	8 May 2006	8 October 2008
Lourdes Mendoza		Peru	America	Second Vice President	28 July 2006	28 July 2011
Marina Barampama		Burundi	Africa	Vice President	8 September 2006	8 February 2007
Nguyễn Thị Doan	80px	Vietnam	Asia	Vice President	20 January 2007	8 April 2016
Baleka Mbete		South Africa	Africa	Deputy President	25 September 2008	9 May 2009
Joyce Banda		Malawi	Africa	Vice President	29 May 2009	7 April 2012
Fatemeh Bodaghi		Iran	Asia	Vice President	21 September 2009	10 September 2013
Farahnaz Torkestani		Iran	Asia	Vice President	21 September 2009	10 September 2013
Maryam Mojtahedzadeh		Iran	Asia	Vice President	21 September 2009	8 October 2013
Nasrin Soltankhah	80px	Iran	Asia	Vice President	21 September 2009	10 September 2013
María Antonieta de Bográn		Honduras	America	First Vice President	27 January 2010	27 January 2014
Hannelore Kraft		Germany	Europe	President of the Bundesrat	1 November 2010	31 October 2011
Monique Ohsan Bellepeau		Mauritius	Africa	Vice President	12 November 2010	Incumbent
Susan Denham	80px	Ireland	Europe	Chief Justice	25 July 2011	Incumbent
Marisol Espinoza		Peru	America	First Vice President	28 July 2011	Incumbent
Meherzia Labidi Maïza	80px	Tunisia	Africa	First Vice-president of the Constituent Assembly of Tunisia	22 November 2011	2 December 2014
Roxana Baldetti	80px	Guatemala	America	Vice President	14 January 2012	8 May 2015
Margarita Popova		Bulgaria	Europe	Vice President	22 January 2012	Incumbent
Margarita Cedeño de Fernández		Dominican Republic	America	Vice President	16 August 2012	Incumbent
Suheir Atassi		Syrian Arab Republic (opposition)	Asia	Vice President of the National Coalition	12 November 2012	4 January 2015
Gladys María Bejerano Portela		Cuba	America	Second Vice President	24 February 2013	Incumbent
Mercedes López Acea		Cuba	America	Third Vice President	24 February 2013	Incumbent
Elham Aminzadeh	80px	Iran	Asia	Vice President	11 August 2013	Incumbent
Masoumeh Ebtekar		Iran	Asia	Vice President	10 September 2013	Incumbent
Shahindokht Molaverdi	80px	Iran	Asia	Vice President	8 October 2013	Incumbent
Ana Rossana Guevara Pinto		Honduras	America	Second Vice President	27 January 2014	Incumbent
Lorena Enriqueta Herrera Estevez		Honduras	America	Third Vice President	27 January 2014	Incumbent
Ana Helena Chacon Echeverria	80px	Costa Rica	America	Second Vice President	8 May 2014	Incumbent
Isabel Saint Malo	80px	Panama	America	Vice President	1 July 2014	Incumbent
Noura al-Ameer		Syrian Arab Republic (opposition)	Asia	Vice President of the National Coalition	4 January 2015	5 March 2016
Inonge Wina		Zambia	Africa	Vice President	26 January 2015	Incumbent
Samia Suluhu	80px	Tanzania	Africa	Vice President	5 November 2015	Incumbent
Gabriela Michetti		Argentina	America	Vice President	10 December 2015	Incumbent
Samira al-Masalma		Syrian Arab Republic (opposition)	Asia	Vice President of the National Coalition	5 March 2016	Incumbent
Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh		Vietnam	Asia	Vice President	8 April 2016	Incumbent
Leni Robredo		Philippines	Asia	Vice President-elect	30 June 2016	Elect	—

See also

• Council of Women World Leaders
• List of current state leaders by date of assumption of office
• List of elected or appointed female heads of state
• List of elected or appointed female heads of government
  • List of elected or appointed female deputy heads of government
• List of female speakers of national and territorial lower houses
• List of female speakers of national and territorial unicameral parliaments
• List of female speakers of national and territorial upper houses
• List of the first female holders of political offices

External links

• Women Heads of State
• Women Presidents and Women Governors-General (Zárate's Political Collections)
• Council of Women World Leaders
• Female Vice Presidents