Kari Kjønaas Kjos
Kari Kjønaas Kjos (born 25 January 1962 in Oslo) is a Norwegian politician representing the Progress Party. She is a representative of Akershus in the Storting since 2005 where she since 2013 has chairs the Standing Committee on Health and Care Services. She has worked as assistant in kindergartens and had administrative positions in business. She studied economics at BI Norwegian Business School 1993-95. She worked for the Progress Party at district level between 2000 and 2005.Maria Mambo Café
Maria Mambo Café (6 February 1945 – 1 December 2013) was an Angolan economist and politician. She was a career member of the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola – Partido do Trabalho (MPLA).Gry Larsen
Gry Larsen (born 7 November 1975) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. From 2002 to 2006 she was the leader of the Workers' Youth League, the youth wing of the Labour Party. She served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Oppland during the terms 1997–2001 and 2005–2009. When the second cabinet Stoltenberg assumed office, Larsen was appointed political advisor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In April 2009, she was appointed state secretary of the Ministry and held the position to 2013.Beate Heieren Hundhammer
Beate Heieren Hundhammer (born 24 September 1968 in Oslo) is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Buskerud in 2001, but was not re-elected in 2005. She served in the position of deputy representative during the terms 1993–1997, 1997–2001 and 2005–2009.Anna Sofie Herland
Anna Sofie Herland (10 March 1913 - 7 February 1990) was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party. She served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Sogn og Fjordane during the terms 1958–1961 and 1961–1965.Prabha Rau
Prabha Rau (4 March 1935 – 26 April 2010) was an Indian politician and the Governor of Rajasthan state of India, since December 2009. She was appointed as Governor of Rajasthan after she was transferred from Governor of Himachal Pradesh after Urmila Singh took charge on 25 Jan 2010 at Shimla. Initially following the death of previous governor of Rajasthan S.K. Singh, she got additional charge as Governor of Rajashthan along with charge of Governor of Himachal Pradesh. She was the governor of Himachal Pradesh since 19 July 2008. She was the former president of Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee. She hails from Wardha. She has a brother named Arun Wasu. She was Member of Parliament in 13th Lok Sabha and was elected from Wardha (Lok Sabha constituency) in Maharashtra. She was elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in 1972 for the first time. She was a former athlete and had represented Maharashtra in the long jump, high jump, hurdles, discus throw, and running . She was a musician and held a master's degree in Politics and Music. Rau died on 26 April 2010 after suffering a heart attack in the Jodhpur house in New Delhi. She became the fourth Governor of Rajasthan in a row to die in office.Christine Egerszegi
Christine Egerszegi-Obrist (born 29 May 1948) is a Swiss politician, member of the Swiss Council of States and former President of the Swiss National Council (2006/2007). She was elected to the National Council in 1995, on the list of the Free Democratic Party in the canton of Aargau, and to the Swiss Council of States as the first female representative of Aargau in the 2007 federal election.Eileen Desmond
Eileen Christine Desmond (née Harrington; 29 December 1932 – 6 January 2005) was an Irish Labour Party politician who served as Minister for Health and Minister for Social Welfare from 1981 to 1982. She served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1965 to 1969, 1973 to 1981 and 1981 to 1987. She served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Munster constituency from 1979 to 1984. She was a Senator for the Industrial and Commercial Panel from 1969 to 1973.Jokapeci Koroi
Jokapeci Talei Koroi (1932 – 12 July 2011) was a Fijian politician. She served as the President of the Fiji Labour Party and a Senator. She was appointed to the Senate in 2002 as one of 8 nominees of the Leader of the Opposition, Mahendra Chaudhry.Judy Hopwood
Judith Hopwood (born 19 June 1954), a former Australian politician, was a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Hornsby for Liberal Party between 2002 and 2011. She is married with two daughters. Before politics, she was a nurse at a Sydney Hospital. Hopwood was elected as Member for Hornsby following a by-election in 2002. During her time in politics, she was considered a moderate Liberal Party member. It was reported that the Liberal Right faction attempted to disendorse her in May 2006 during a purge of more moderate members. She survived this push due to local support and the support of then NSW Liberal leader Peter Debnam.J. Anita Stup
J. Anita Stup (born March 8, 1945) is a former member of the Maryland House of Delegates representing District 3, which covers most of Frederick County, Maryland.Mary Reynolds
Mary Reynolds (10 October 1889 – 29 August 1974) was an Irish politician, farmer and grocer from County Leitrim.She was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Cumann na nGaedheal Teachta Dála (TD) at the 1932 general election for the Leitrim–Sligo constituency. Her husband Patrick Reynolds had been a TD for the same constituency in the 6th Dáil, but was fatally shot during the 1932 general election campaign. The election in Leitrim–Sligo was then postponed, and she won the seat, serving in the Dáil for 25 years.She lost her seat at the 1933 general election but was elected for the Leitrim constituency at the 1937 general election as a Fine Gael TD. She represented the Sligo–Leitrim constituency from 1948 until her retirement at the 1961 general election.She had seven children, including her son Patrick J. Reynolds, who was a Fine Gael TD and senator, as was his son Gerry Reynolds.Marzena Paduch
Marzena Hanna Paduch (born April 7, 1965 in Zwoleń) is a Polish politician. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 7838 votes in 17 Radom district, candidating from Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej list.- Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Public domain
Sandra Bussin
Sandra Bussin is a politician in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was a municipal councillor for Toronto City Council for Ward 32 in east Toronto from 1998 to 2010. From 2006 to 2010 she was Speaker of Toronto City Council. Wenche Lyngholm
Wenche Lyngholm (born 13 May 1951 in Moss) is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party. She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Østfold in 1989, but was not re-elected in 1993. When the Socialist Left Party entered the Cabinet in 2005, Lyngholm was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Government Administration and Reform.Elisabeth Røbekk Nørve
Elisabeth Røbekk Nørve (born 29 March 1951 in Borgund) is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Møre og Romsdal in 2001, but she was not re-elected in 2005. She served in the position of deputy representative during the terms 1997–2001 and 2005–2009, when she was elected to the Stortinget once more. Nørve held various positions in Ålesund city council from 1995 to 2003. From 1995 to 2001 she was also involved in Møre og Romsdal county council.Alina Gut
Alina Gut, née Suska (born February 10, 1938) is a Polish politician. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005, getting 8455 votes in 6 Lublin district, candidating from Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej list.Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana
Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana (born October 11, 1952) is a Namibian politician who served as the Secretary-General of the South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) from 2007 to 2012. She was also Minister of Justice from 2005 to 2012 and Minister of Home Affairs from 2012 until 2018 when president Hage Geingob relieved her off her duties in a cabinet reshuffle.Anna C. Verna
Anna Cibotti Verna (born April 15, 1931) is a former President of the Philadelphia City Council on which she served from 1975 to 2012, as the representative of the Second District, which encompasses most of South Philadelphia as well as most of the western end of Center City. She is a Democrat. She is the daughter of former council member William Cibotti and was elected to his seat following his death in 1975.Verna has drawn criticism for her support of the Deferred Retirement Option Plan (DROP) for city employees which allows municipal employees to forgo some pension payments in lieu of a lump-sum payment on the date of their retirement. Prior to the 2011 municipal election, several councilmembers exploited a loophole in DROP, allowing elected officials to retire for a day at the end of their term, and then resume work in their next term. Following public outcry, several of the councilmembers who enrolled in DROP, including Verna, declined to run for reelection. Others, like Councilman Frank Rizzo, Jr. were defeated for renomination.Anna McCurley
Anna Anderson McCurley (née Gemmell; born 18 January 1943) is a Scottish politician.Åsa-Britt Karlsson
Åsa-Britt Karlsson (born July 6, 1957) is a Swedish politician. She is a member of the Centre Party.Esabelle Dingizian
Esabelle Dingizian (Armenian: Իզապէլ Տինկիզեան; 16 September 1962) is a Swedish Green Party politician. She has been a member of the Riksdag since 2006. She served as Third Deputy Speaker of the Riksdag from 2014 to 2018.- Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Public domain
Carmen E. Arroyo
Carmen E. Arroyo (born 1936), a native of Puerto Rico, is the first Hispanic woman elected to the New York State Assembly. She is also the first female of Puerto Rican descent to serve as housing developer in the State of New York. Arroyo's 84th Assembly District covers the Mott Haven, Port Morris, Melrose, The Hub, Longwood, Concourse, and Hunts Point sections of the South Bronx. Elaine Murphy, Baroness Murphy
Elaine Murphy, Baroness Murphy (born 16 January 1947) is a British politically independent politician and a member of the House of Lords. After qualifying as a doctor and then as a psychiatrist she later became an academic in the National Health Service for 25 years. She spent a period as a Health Service general manager between 1984 and 1990 which included the post of District General Manager for Lewisham and North Southwark Health Authority. She was the first Professor of Psychiatry of Old Age in the UK, held at the University of London at Guy's Hospital. She took on non-executive roles after retirement and was Chair of North East London Strategic Health Authority until 30 June 2006. She was a Visiting Professor at Queen Mary University of London, Vice-President of the Alzheimer’s Society and Chair of Council at St George's, University of London between 2009 and 2012, and was a non-executive member of Monitor (Independent Monitor of NHS Hospitals). On 17 June 2004, she was made a life peer as Baroness Murphy, of Aldgate in the City of London, taking an interest in mental health and ageing issues in the House of Lords where she sits as a Crossbencher. She was first married 1969-2000 to John Murphy, the branding 'guru' and brewer and then second, from 2001, to Professor Michael A Robb FRS, a theoretical chemist. She lives in Norfolk and has homes in London and Lucca, where she grows olives.In January 2009, it was revealed that she was the author of a hoax letter about "Cello scrotum" that was printed in the British Medical Journal in 1974.Baroness Murphy also has a PhD in Social History and has published in the field of 18th and 19th century workhouses, madhouses and local history. Her recent publications include "The Moated Grange: A History of South Norfolk Through the Story of one Home, 1300-2000", about the village of Brockdish in South Norfolk. She is also an honorary associate of the National Secular Society.Eva Kjer Hansen
Eva Kjer Hansen (born 26 August 1964) is a Danish politician. She was the Danish Minister for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries as member of the Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen II, III and the Lars Løkke Rasmussen I Cabinet from 12 September 2007 until 23 February 2010, and she was Social Minister and Minister for Women's Rights from 2 August 2004 to 12 September 2007, as member of the Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen I and II. As part of the Lars Løkke Rasmussen II Cabinet she was Minister for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries from 28 June 2015 until 29 February 2016. She has been Minister for Gender Equality and Nordic Cooperation since 2 May 2018. Born in Esbjerg, she is a member of the Liberal Party, and has been a member of parliament (Folketinget) since the 1990 Danish parliamentary elections.Halina Rozpondek
Halina Leokadia Rozpondek (born May 25, 1950 in Częstochowa) is a Polish politician. She was elected to the Sejm in: 2005, 2007, 2011, 2015 in 28 Częstochowa district, candidating from the Civic Platform list. In 2006, in the elections for the office of President of Częstochowa, she obtained the second result (23.89%). In the second round of elections, she obtained 39.23% of votes and was defeated by the current president Tadeusz Wrona, who won the re-election.Ieng Thirith
Ieng Thirith (née Khieu; Khmer: អៀង ធីរិទ្ធ; 10 March 1932 – 22 August 2015) was an influential figure in the Khmer Rouge, although she was neither a member of the Khmer Rouge Standing Committee nor of the Central Committee. Ieng Thirith was the wife of Ieng Sary, who was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Democratic Kampuchea's Khmer Rouge regime. She served as Minister of Social Affairs from October 1975 until the fall of the Khmer Rouge in 1979.She was the sister of Khieu Ponnary, who was the first wife of Pol Pot. She was arrested by the Extraordinary Chamber in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) in November 2007 with her husband, Ieng Sary, on suspicion of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.Karin Söder
Karin Ann-Marie Söder (née Bergenfur; 30 November 1928 – 19 December 2015) was a Swedish Centre politician. She was the first woman in Sweden to be elected the leader of a major political party. She headed the Swedish Centre Party from 1985 to 1987. She was also one of the first female foreign ministers in the world.Katrin Göring-Eckardt
Katrin Dagmar Göring-Eckardt (born Katrin Dagmar Eckardt; 3 May 1966) is a German politician from the German Green Party (officially known as Alliance '90/The Greens; German: Bündnis 90/Die Grünen). Starting her political activity in the now-former German Democratic Republic (East Germany) in the late 1980s, she has been a member of the German Bundestag since 1998. She became co-chair of her party caucus in the Bundestag (2002–2005) and the Greens' Vice President of the Bundestag on 18 October 2005, a position that she held until 2013. In the November 2012 primary election, the Green Party chose her and Jürgen Trittin as the top two candidates for the Greens for the 2013 German federal election. She also stood as joint top candidate for the Greens in the 2017 German federal election, alongside Cem Özdemir.Between 2009 and 2013, Göring-Eckardt served as praeses of the synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany (German: Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland, abbreviated EKD) and thus as member of the Council of the EKD. However, during the federal election campaign in 2013 she stepped down from her office in the EKD.Magdalena Kochan
Magdalena Maria Kochan (born January 28, 1950 in Szczecin) is a Polish politician. She was elected to the Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 6294 votes in 41 Szczecin district, candidating from the Civic Platform list.
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