List of female dependent territory leaders

This is a list of women who had been appointed as leaders of dependent territories. This list also separates between the dependent territory leaders and the autonomous area leaders. Some women were also appointed for the office of head of government in their respective territories. The list will be separated between the head of territory and head of government.

Dependent territories

  Denotes incumbent head of territory/government

Heads of territory

Name Image Territory Office Mandate start Mandate end Term length
Dame Catherine Tizard  Ross Dependency Governor-General 13 December 1990 21 March 1996 5 years, 99 days
Sila María Calderón  Puerto Rico Governor 2 January 2001 2 January 2005 4 years, 0 days
Dame Sian Elias  Ross Dependency Acting Governor-General 22 March 2001 4 April 2001 13 days
Dame Silvia Cartwright  Ross Dependency Governor-General 4 April 2001 4 August 2006 5 years, 122 days
Cynthia Astwood  Turks and Caicos Islands Acting Governor 26 November 2002 16 December 2002 20 days
Deborah Barnes Jones  Montserrat Governor 10 May 2004 6 July 2007 3 years, 57 days
Mahala Wynns  Turks and Caicos Islands Acting Governor 21 June 2005 11 July 2005 20 days
Anne Boquet  French Polynesia President 10 September 2005 29 June 2008 2 years, 293 days
Harriet Hall  South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Acting Commissioner 2006 2006 ?
Kjerstin Ashkolt Norway Bouvet Island Administrator 2006 2 October 2015 9 years, 274 days
Norway Peter I Island
Norway Queen Maud Land
Dancia Penn  British Virgin Islands Acting Governor 10 April 2006 18 April 2006 8 days
Dame Sian Elias  Ross Dependency Acting Governor-General 4 August 2006 23 August 2006 19 days
Michèle Alliot-Marie  Clipperton Island Administrator 19 June 2007 23 June 2009 2 years, 4 days
Leslie Pallet  Gibraltar Acting Governor 21 October 2009 26 October 2009 5 days
Marie-Luce Penchard  Clipperton Island Administrator 6 November 2009 10 May 2012 2 years, 186 days
Victoria Treadell  Pitcairn Islands Governor 29 May 2010 25 August 2014 4 years, 88 days
V. Inez Archibald  British Virgin Islands Acting Governor 7 August 2010 20 August 2010 13 days
Sarita Francis  Montserrat Acting Governor 3 March 2011 8 April 2011 36 days
Dame Sian Elias  Ross Dependency Acting Governor-General 23 August 2011 31 August 2011 8 days
Lydia Emerencia  Bonaire Lieutenant Governor 1 March 2012 1 March 2014 2 years, 0 days
Adèle van der Pluijm-Vrede  Curaçao Acting Governor 24 November 2012 4 November 2013 345 days
Christina Scott  Anguilla Governor 23 July 2013 Incumbent 2 years, 289 days
Helen Kilpatrick  Cayman Islands Governor 6 September 2013 Incumbent 2 years, 244 days
Lucille George-Wout  Curaçao Governor 4 November 2013 Incumbent 2 years, 185 days
Alison MacMillan  Gibraltar Acting Governor 13 November 2013 6 December 2013 23 days
George Pau-Langevin  Clipperton Island Administrator 2 April 2014 Incumbent 2 years, 35 days
Esther Kia'aina United States Wake Island Administrator 11 July 2014 Incumbent 1 year, 301 days
V. Inez Archibald  British Virgin Islands Acting Governor 1 August 2014 15 August 2014 14 days
Cécile Pozzo di Borgo  French Southern and Antarctic Lands Administrator-Superior 7 October 2014 Incumbent 1 year, 213 days
Elizabeth Carriere  Montserrat Governor 5 August 2015 Incumbent 276 days
Alison MacMillan  Gibraltar Acting Governor 28 September 2015 19 January 2016 113 days
Linda Te Puni  Tokelau Acting Administrator 1 March 2016 Incumbent 67 days
Lisa Phillips  Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Governor 25 April 2016 Incumbent 12 days

Heads of government

Name Image Territory Office Mandate start Mandate end Term length
Lucinda E. da Costa Gomez-Matheeuws  Netherlands Antilles Prime Minister 1977 1977 ?
Maria Liberia Peters  Netherlands Antilles Prime Minister 18 September 1984 1 January 1986 1 year, 105 days
Stella Sigcau  Transkei Prime Minister 5 October 1987 30 December 1987 86 days
Maria Liberia Peters  Netherlands Antilles Prime Minister 17 May 1988 25 November 1993 5 years, 192 days
Lillian Oh  Christmas Island President of the Shire 1 July 1992 1995 2 years, 184 days
Susanne Camelia-Römer  Netherlands Antilles Prime Minister 25 November 1993 28 December 1993 33 days
Pamela F. Gordon  Bermuda Premier 27 March 1997 10 November 1998 1 year, 228 days
Susanne Camelia-Römer  Netherlands Antilles Prime Minister 14 May 1998 8 November 1999 1 year, 178 days
Jennifer M. Smith  Bermuda Premier 10 November 1998 29 July 2003 4 years, 261 days
Cynthia Astwood  Turks and Caicos Islands Acting Governor 26 November 2002 16 December 2002 20 days
Mirna Louisa-Godett  Netherlands Antilles Prime Minister 11 August 2003 3 June 2004 297 days
Marie-Noëlle Thémereau  New Caledonia President of the Government 10 June 2004 7 August 2007 3 years, 58 days
Brenda Christian  Pitcairn Islands Acting Mayor 8 November 2004 15 December 2004 37 days
Jane Rumble  British Antarctic Territory Administrator 2006 2008 2 years, 0 days
Emily de Jongh-Elhage  Netherlands Antilles Prime Minister 26 March 2006 10 October 2010 4 years, 198 days
Joanne Yeadon  British Indian Ocean Territory Administrator 2007 2011 4 years, 0 days
Marthe Ogoundélé-Tessi  Saint Martin Acting President of the Territorial Council 25 July 2008 8 August 2008 14 days
Sarah Wescot-Williams  Sint Maarten Prime Minister 10 October 2010 19 December 2014 4 years, 70 days
Paula Cox  Bermuda Premier 29 October 2010 18 December 2012 2 years, 69 days
Juliana O'Connor-Connolly  Cayman Islands Premier 19 December 2012 29 May 2013 161 days
Aline Hanson  Saint Martin President of the Territorial Council 2013 Incumbent 3 years, 127 days
Nivaleta Iloai  Wallis and Futuna President of the Territorial Assembly 1 April 2013 11 December 2013 254 days
Cynthia Ligeard  New Caledonia President of the Government 5 June 2014 1 April 2015 300 days

Autonomous, insular, etc., regions

  Denotes incumbent head of region/government

Heads of region

Name Image Region Office Mandate start Mandate end Term length
María Antonia Martínez  Murcia President 2 May 1993 3 July 1995 2 years, 62 days
Ann-Kristin Olsen Norway Svalbard Governor 1995 1998 3 years, 0 days
Vibeke Larsen  Faroe Islands High Commissioner 1995 1 November 2001 6 years, 304 days
Mo Mowlam  Northern Ireland Secretary of State 3 May 1997 11 October 1999 2 years, 161 days
Helen Liddell  Scotland Secretary of State 25 January 2001 13 June 2003 2 years, 139 days
Birgit Kleis  Faroe Islands High Commissioner 1 November 2001 1 August 2005 3 years, 273 days
Esperanza Aguirre  Madrid President 17 October 2003 17 September 2012 8 years, 336 days
Dora Bakoyannis  Mount Athos Head of State 15 February 2006 6 October 2009 3 years, 233 days
Melania Carolina Hotu Hey  Easter Island Governor 11 March 2006 18 March 2010 4 years, 7 days
Hill-Marta Solberg Norway Jan Mayen Administrator 21 September 2007 Incumbent 8 years, 229 days
Cheryl Gillan  Wales Secretary of State 11 May 2010 4 September 2012 2 years, 116 days
Carmen Cardinali Paoa  Easter Island Governor 8 September 2010 11 March 2014 3 years, 184 days
Mikaela Engell  Greenland High Commissioner 1 April 2011 Incumbent 5 years, 36 days
María Dolores de Cospedal  Castile-La Mancha President 22 June 2011 1 July 2015 4 years, 9 days
Yolanda Barcina  Navarre President 23 June 2011 20 July 2015 4 years, 27 days
Luisa Fernanda Rudi Ubeda  Aragon President 13 July 2011 3 July 2015 3 years, 355 days
Paula Sánchez de León  Valencian Community Acting President 20 July 2011 28 July 2011 8 days
Theresa Villiers  Northern Ireland Secretary of State 4 September 2012 Incumbent 3 years, 246 days
Susana Díaz  Andalusia President 7 September 2013 Incumbent 2 years, 243 days
Marta Hotus Tuki  Easter Island Governor 11 March 2014 Incumbent 2 years, 57 days
Irina Vlah  Gagauzia Governor 23 March 2015 Incumbent 1 year, 45 days
Cristina Cifuentes  Madrid President 24 June 2015 Incumbent 318 days
Francina Armengol  Balearic Islands President 30 June 2015 Incumbent 312 days
Uxue Barkos  Navarre President 20 July 2015 Incumbent 292 days
Kjerstin Askholt Norway Svalbard Governor 1 October 2015 Incumbent 219 days
Sonja Stewart  Lord Howe Island Chairman of the Lord Howe Island Board March 2016 Incumbent 67 days

Heads of government

Name Image Region Office Mandate start Mandate end Term length
Marita Petersen  Faroe Islands Prime Minister 18 January 1993 15 September 1994 1 year, 240 days
Anson Chan  Hong Kong Chief Secretary 29 November 1993 30 June 1997 3 years, 213 days
Anson Chan  Hong Kong Chief Secretary for Administration 1 July 1997 30 April 2001 3 years, 303 days
Florinda Chan  Macau Secretary for Administration and Justice of Macau 20 December 1999 20 December 2014 15 years, 0 days
Nassimah Dindar  Réunion President of the General Council 1 April 2004 2 April 2015 11 years, 1 day
Viveka Eriksson  Åland Islands Chief Minister 26 November 2007 25 November 2011 3 years, 364 days
Arlene Foster  Northern Ireland Acting First Minister 11 January 2010 3 February 2010 23 days
Josette Manin  Martinique President of the Regional Council 31 March 2011 18 December 2015 4 years, 262 days
Camilla Gunell  Åland Islands Chief Minister 25 November 2011 25 November 2015 4 years, 0 days
Carrie Lam  Hong Kong Chief Secretary for Administration 1 July 2012 Incumbent 3 years, 311 days
Aleqa Hammond  Greenland Prime Minister 5 April 2013 30 September 2014 1 year, 178 days
María Isabel Salvador  Galápagos Islands Chairman of the Governing Council with Special Regime August 2013 Incumbent 2 years, 280 days
Nicola Sturgeon  Scotland First Minister 19 November 2014 Incumbent 1 year, 170 days
Sonia Chan  Macau Secretary for Administration and Justice of Macau 20 December 2014 Incumbent 1 year, 139 days
Josette Borel-Lincertin  Guadeloupe President of the Departmental Council 2 April 2015 Incumbent 1 year, 35 days
Nassimah Dindar  Réunion President of the Departmental Council 2 April 2015 Incumbent 1 year, 35 days
Arlene Foster  Northern Ireland Acting First Minister 10 September 2015 20 October 2015 40 days
Katrin Sjögren  Åland Islands Chief Minister 25 November 2015 Incumbent 164 days
Arlene Foster  Northern Ireland First Minister 11 January 2016 Incumbent 117 days

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