This is the list of the first women appointed as ambassadors in the countries which has had a female ambassador to this date. Some of the information in this list is supplied by Mart Martin.
Afghanistan
1979-80 Dr. Anahita
Ratebezad, Yugoslavia
Former Minister in
the Government
Albania
Ca. 1982 Syeda Laze,
Viet Nam (Male/Female?)
1993-? Suzana Faja, Poland
1998-? Liljana Bsjati, USA
Algeria
2001- Malika Saci, Denmark
Three other women were appointed Ambassadors in 2001.
Andorra
1993-99 Meritxell Mateu
i Pi,
2000-05
Ambassador to Denmark
Minister of External Relations from 2007.
Angola
1978-? Maria de Jesus Haller, Sweden
Antigua
and Barbuda
Around 1988 A.A.B Vanderpoole, United Kingdom
1992-98 Deborach-Mae
Lowell, Canada (Acting)
Around 1998 Ambassador-at-large Yvonne Maignly
Argentina
Ca. 1962 Angela C.
Romera Vara, Panama
Until
1976 Dr. P.B. Cabuet, The Netherlands
Armenia
1991 Sevad Sevan,
Bulgaria
Australia
1971-75 Dame Anabella
Rankin, New Zealand
Former minister
Austria
1959 Johanna
Mondschein, Norway
1966-70
Dr. Johanna Nestor, India and Ceylon (Sri Lanka
1972-76 Israel
1979-83 Ireland
Azerbaijan
1993-?
Eleonora-hanoum Gousseinova, France
Bahamas
1979-80 Dr. Patricia
E. Ridgers, Canada (Acting) and Chargé d’affaires to USA
1982-83 Deputy
Representative to OAS
1983-86 Acting
Ambassador to Canada
1988-94 Ambassador to
United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Germany, European Communities and various United
Nations Organizations
1988-98 Under
Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1986
Margaret McDonald, USA
Bahrain
2000-05 Sheika Hayya
bint Rashid Al-Kalifha, France
and UNESCO
2001-05 Ambassador to Switzerland and Spain
Also
known as Shaikha Haya Rashed
Al-Khalifa, she is a member of
the ruling Al-Khalifa-family
Bangladesh
Ca. 1980-81 Tahmina
Khan Dolly, Sri Lanka
Barbados
1975 Cyralene
Gale, Canada
1970-73 Valerie T.
McComie, USA
1973-76 Venezuela
Belarus
1992-94 Nina
Nikolaevna Mazai, France (Chargé d’Affaire)
1994-97
Ambassador to France
1996-97 Spain
Deputy Foreign Minister 1997-2001.
Belgium
1966-69 Edmonde Dever,
Asstistant Representative to the United Nations
1973-78 Sweden
1978-81 Austria
1981-88 United
Nations
Belize
1988-89 Ursula H.
Barrow, Deputy Representative to the United Nations
1989-91 United
Nations
1993-98 United
Kingdom, Germany, France and European Union
Bénin
Ca.1980-83-?
Bernardine do Régio, Nigeria
1992-94 Canada
Bolivia
1969 Teresa Alexander
Dupleich, Organization of American States
Ca.
1982-ca.91 Myriam Paz Cerruto, France
1982-83
1983-86 and 1993-?
Venezuela
From 1993 Venezuela
Acting President of the Republic of Bolivia 1979-80.
Bosnia-Herzegovina
1992-? Sadzida
Silaidzic, Pakistan
1992-?
Bisera Turkovic, Croatia
Botswana
1970-74 Dr. Gaositwe
K.C.Tipe, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Norway, Denmark, European Communities
and Nigeria
Later Minister of Foreign
Affairs
Brazil
1951 Ivete Vargas,
Special Ambassador on a mission to Lebanon
1959-60
Beata Vettori, European Communities
1966-69 Ecuador and
Senegal
1959-63 Odette De Cavalho e Souza to ?
1965 Dora Vasconcelos,
Canada and Trinidad and Tobago
Brunei
Ca. 1996/97- HRH
Princess Hama of Brunei, Ambassador-at-Large in the Foreign Ministry
1998-
Peringran Hajah Masrainak Peringran Haji Ahmad, Denmark (Non-resident)
2000-01 France
2002- Italy
Bulgaria
1949-52-? Stela
Dmitrova Blagoeva, USSR and Finland
Burkina
Faso
1985 Maimouna
Ouattara, Ghana
1986-90
Anne Konaté;
Mali, Senegal, Mauritania, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, The Gambia and Cape Verde
1990-99 Denmark,
Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
From 1996 "Doyenne de
la corps diplomatique au Court de la reine Danoise".
Burma
1960-67 Daw Khin Kuy,
India
The only female
ambassador - widow of Aung San and Mother of Aung San Suu Kuy.
Burundi
1994-ca. 98 Julie
Ngiriye, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway (and Iceland)
Cambodia
Around 1990/91 Bo Rasi, USSR
2002- to Bulgaria
Cameroon
1982-86 Simone Mairie,
United Nations
Canada
1930 Irene Parlby,
Delegate (Ambassador) to the League of Nations
She was Minister without Portfolio in the Province of Alberta
1958-61
Margaret Blance Meagher, Israel
1961
Cypres
1962-66 Austria
1967-69 Kenya and
Uganda
1969-73 Sweden
Capo Verde
1997-99
Marly de Meneses Barbosa-Vincente, Denmark, Estonia, Finland Iceland, Norway and
Sweden and the Netherlands
1999-2001
Maria de Fatima Lima Veiga, Cuba
Afterwards Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs and Ambassador to the United
Nations.
1999- Maria Luisa Ferredo Ribeiro, France
Former Representative to UNESCO 1992-93
Ca 1998-?
Ambassador and Director General for the Francophonie Dorothée Aimée Malanzapa
Chad
Around
1978 Dr. Helena Tchiouna, Cameroon
1993-97 China
1989-? Martine
Djoumbi, Zaire
China
1979-81 Deng Xuesong,
The Netherlands
1982-84 Denmark
Chile
1927-30 Olga de la Barra, Vice-Consul at Glasgow
1930-? Consul-attaché in London.
1928-30 Ines Ortuzar, Consul at Hull
1930-? Consul at Glasgow with responsibility for
the whole of Scotland.
1933 Gabriela
Mistral, Ambassador-at-large for Latin American Culture. Also Representative by
the League of Nations, possibly with rang of Ambassador
1947-? Carmen Vidal de Senoret, The Neterlands (envoy/minister)
She was married to
the envoy to United Kingdom
1950-52
Ana Figuero Gjardo, United Nations (Ambassador)
Colombia
1966-69
Esmeralda Arboleda Cavidad, Austria and Yugoslavia
1969-? Deputy Perament
Representative to the United Nations
Former Minister in
the Government.
Congo-Brazzaville
Ca. 1985-92 C.
Eckomband, Guinea
Congo-Kingazza
(Formerly Zaire)
1983-87 Bintou'
A-Tshabola, Austria
Cook
Islands (Associated State with New Zealand)
2002-03 Audrey Pereira-Brown, New Zealand (Acting)
(1st Secretary in the High Commission in
Wellington)
2003- Sonya Kamana, New Zealand (Acting)
(1st Secretary in the High Commission in Wellington)
Costa
Rica
1959 Angela Acuña
Braun de Chahon, Organization of American States
1964-?
Maria de Chittenden, United Kingdom, Norway etc.
Côte
d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
1996-ca. 2004 Liliana
Marie-Laure Ba, Denmark, Finland, Norway
Croatia
1992 Anamarija
Besker, United Nations in Vienna
1995
Vesna Girardi Jurkic, France
Former Minister
Cuba
Ca. 1962 Blanca Díaz
Collazo, Columbia
Cyprus
1993-96 Myrna Y.
Kleopas, China
1998-2000 Italy
2000- United Kingdom
Cyprus, Turkish Republic of Northern
2006- Yonca Şenyiğit, Foreign Representative to
United Kingdom
Co-Representative 2005-06.
Czechoslovakia
1990-93 Hanna
Seveikova, Denmark
Continued as
ambassador for the Czech Republic until 1995
1990-93
Magdalena Vasarayova, Austria
Continued as
ambassador for Slovakia
1990-93
Paulina Rznickova, Spain
Continued as
ambassador for the Czech Republic
Czech
Republic
193-95 Hanna
Seveikova, Denmark
Represented
Czechoslovakia since 1990
1993-?
Paulina Rznickova, Spain
Represented
Czechoslovakia since 1990
1993-?
Rita Klimova, USA
Represented
Czechoslovakia since 1992
1993-?
Marketa Fiakova, Poland
Denmark
1949-55 Bodil
Begtrup, Iceland (Envoy)
1955 Ambassador to
Iceland
1956-59 European
Council
1959-68 Switzerland
1968-73 Portugal
The
Dominican Republic
1950-71 Minerva
Bernardino, United Nations
1971-76 The
Netherlands
Dominica
Ca. 1985 Marciella H.
Mukasa, USA
Deutsche
Demokratische Republik (German Democratic Republic) DDR
1958-66 Eleonora
Straimer, Yugoslavia (Envoy)
1966-69 Ambassador to
Yugoslavia
1974-78
Eleonora Smid, Guinea and Sierra Leone
1974-75 Guinea-Bissau
1975-79 Gambia
1981-89 Morocco
1982-89 Senegal and
Capo Verde
(The second and last
female ambassador of DDR)
Ecuador
1975-78 Amamda
Pesantes Garcia, Denmark
Egypt
1978 Aisha Reteb, in
the Foreign Ministry
1979-81 Denmark
1981-84 Western
Germany
She was a former
minister
El
Salvador
1988-94 Ana-Cristina
Sol Midence, France, Belgium, Portugal, European Communities and UNESCO
1994-97 USA
Later Minister in the
government.
Equatorial
Guinea
Ca. 1993-?
Maria Resserección Bita Boriesa, Morocco
Eritrea
1999-2001 Hibret Berhe
Misgun, Sweden, Norway and Finland
2000-01 Denmark
1999-? Hana Simon, Belgium and European Union
Estonia
1991-92 Senta Alas,
Denmark
1992 Valvi Stikaitiene, Lithuania
1992
Leili Utno, Latvia
Ethiopia
1975-77 Yodith Imre,
Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway
Former Vice-minister
of Foreign Affairs
1990-94
Sahele Work Zewdie, Senegal
1994-? Djubouti
Last update 24.01.08