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	80px	Italy	Chamber of Deputies	20 June 1979	22 April 1992
Lidia Gueiler Tejada	80px	Bolivia	Chamber of Deputies	August 1979	November 1979
Jeanne Sauvé		Canada	House of Commons	14 April 1980	15 January 1984
Hedi Lang		Switzerland	National Council	1981	1982
Lindsay Bolden		Barbados	House of Assembly	1984	1986
Joan Child		Australia	House of Representatives	11 February 1986	28 August 1989
Betty Boothroyd		United Kingdom	House of Commons	27 April 1992	23 October 2000
Gret Haller		Switzerland	National Council	1993	1994
Takako Doi		Japan	House of Representatives	6 August 1993	27 September 1996
Bridgett Harris		Antigua and Barbuda	House of Representatives	1994	29 March 2004
Irene Pivetti	80px	Italy	Chamber of Deputies	16 April 1994	8 May 1996
Frene Ginwala		South Africa	National Assembly	9 May 1994	23 April 2004
Judith Stamm		Switzerland	National Council	1996	1997
Violet Nielson		Jamaica	House of Representatives	1997	2003
Rome Italia Johnson		Bahamas	House of Assembly	9 April 1997	22 May 2002
Sylvia Flores		Belize	House of Representatives	1998	2001
Trix Heberlein		Switzerland	National Council	1998	1999
Jeltje van Nieuwenhoven	80px	Netherlands	Tweede Kamer	20 May 1998	16 May 2002
Ntlhoi Motsamai		Lesotho	National Assembly	1999	2012
Rafaela de González		Dominican Republic	Chamber of Deputies	1999	2003
Nancy Patricia Gutiérrez		Colombia	Chamber of Representatives	20 July 1999	20 July 2000
Luisa Fernanda Rudi Ubeda	80px	Spain	Congress of Deputies	5 April 2000	8 April 2004
Elizabeth Zabaneh		Belize	House of Representatives	2001	2008
Liliane Maury Pasquier		Switzerland	National Council	2001	2002
Adriana Muñoz D'Albora		Chile	Chamber of Deputies	14 March 2002	18 March 2003
Isabel Allende		Chile	Chamber of Deputies	18 March 2003	16 March 2004
Giselle Isaac-Arindell		Antigua and Barbuda	House of Representatives	29 March 2004	June 2014
Baleka Mbete		South Africa	National Assembly	23 April 2004	25 September 2008
Zulema Jattin Corrales		Colombia	Chamber of Representatives	20 July 2004	20 July 2005
Nora Castro		Uruguay	Chamber of Deputies	1 March 2005	1 March 2006
Thérèse Meyer	80px	Switzerland	National Council	8 March 2005	28 November 2005
Christine Egerszegi	80px	Switzerland	National Council	2006	2007
Barbara Prammer		Austria	National Council	30 October 2006	2 August 2014
Gerdi Verbeet	80px	Netherlands	Tweede Kamer	6 December 2006	20 September 2012
Nancy Pelosi		United States	House of Representatives	4 January 2007	3 January 2011
Sarah Flood-Beaubrun		Saint Lucia	House of Assembly	9 January 2007	September 2008
Patricia Etteh		Nigeria	House of Representatives	6 June 2007	30 October 2007
Chiara Simoneschi-Cortesi	80px	Switzerland	National Council	2008	2009
Diloram Tashmukhamedova		Uzbekistan	Legislative Chamber	23 January 2008	12 January 2015
Fahmida Mirza		Pakistan	National Assembly	19 March 2008	3 June 2013
Rosemary Husbands-Mathurin		Saint Lucia	House of Assembly	September 2008	6 January 2012
Gwen Mahlangu-Nkabinde		South Africa	National Assembly	25 September 2008	6 May 2009
Rose Mukantabana		Rwanda	Chamber of Deputies	6 October 2008	3 October 2013
Roberta Anastase		Romania	Chamber of Deputies	19 December 2008	3 July 2012
Meira Kumar		India	Lok Sabha	4 June 2009	4 June 2014
Ivonne Passada		Uruguay	Chamber of Deputies	1 March 2010	1 March 2011
Alejandra Sepúlveda Orbenes		Chile	Chamber of Deputies	11 March 2010	15 March 2011
Miroslava Němcová	80px	Czech Republic	Chamber of Deputies	1 May 2010	28 August 2013
Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert		Jamaica	House of Representatives	13 July 2011	12 December 2011
Ewa Kopacz		Poland	Sejm	8 November 2011	22 September 2014
Maya Graf	80px	Switzerland	National Council	2012	2013
Betty Asunta Tejada Soruco		Bolivia	Chamber of Deputies	24 July 2012	25 January 2015
Anouchka van Miltenburg		Netherlands	Tweede Kamer	25 September 2012	12 December 2015
Anna Burke	80px	Australia	House of Representatives	9 October 2012	12 November 2013
Laura Boldrini		Italy	Chamber of Deputies	16 March 2013	Incumbent
Donatille Mukabalisa		Rwanda	Chamber of Deputies	3 October 2013	Incumbent
Bronwyn Bishop	80px	Australia	House of Representatives	12 November 2013	2 August 2015
Baleka Mbete		South Africa	National Assembly	21 May 2014	Incumbent
Sumitra Mahajan		India	Lok Sabha	5 June 2014	Incumbent
Doris Bures		Austria	National Council	2 September 2014	Incumbent
Gabriela Montaño Viaña		Bolivia	Chamber of Deputies	21 January 2015	Incumbent
Ntlhoi Motsamai		Lesotho	National Assembly	10 March 2015	Incumbent
Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska	80px	Poland	Sejm	25 June 2015	11 November 2015
Borjana Krišto		Bosnia and Herzegovina	House of Representatives	7 August 2015	8 April 2016
Bridgit Annisette-George		Trinidad and Tobago	House of Representatives	23 September 2015	Incumbent
Christa Markwalder	80px	Switzerland	National Council	30 November 2015	Incumbent
Khadija Arib		Netherlands	Tweede Kamer	13 December 2015	Incumbent

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

See Also

• Bicameralism
• List of female speakers of national and territorial unicameral parliaments
• List of female speakers of national and territorial upper houses
• List of legislatures by country
• Lower House
• Parliament
• Speaker (politics)