Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
 Female Ministers of Belize (till 1973 British Honduras) (Female Suffrage 1954)British Colony 1862-1981, Internal Autonomy 1964 and an independent Constitutional Monarchy in 1981

Also see Belize Heads of State and Belize Parliament

1965-69 Minister of Education and Housing and Social Service Gwendolyn Lizarraga
She was her country’s first female MP 1961-69. (b. 1901)

1979-89 Parliamentary Secretary and Deputy Minister of Health Jane Usher
1984-89 Parliamentary Secretary of Housing and Co-operatives
Speaker of the House of the Senate 1989-93.

1981- Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of Belize, and of Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commenwealth (21.9-)
Queen of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland since 1952. (b. 1926-)

1981-93 Governor General Rt. Hon. Dr. Dame Elmira Minita Gordon (21.9-17.11)
Regional Commissioner of Belize City 1970-77.

1984-89 Permanent Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Economic Development Y.S. Hyde

1993-98 Minister of State of Youth Development and Human Resources Faith Stuart Babb
Apparently she was concurrently Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives

1998-2003 Minister of Human Development, Women and Children and Civil Society Dolores Balderanos Garcia  
She was not re-elected to the Parliament in 2003. 

2000-03 Minister of State of Industry Patricia Arceo  

2003-04 Minister of Defence and National Emergency Management Sylvia Flores
 2004-08 Minister of Human Development
2005-08 Minister of Housing
Former Mayor of Belize City, she was Speaker of the House of Representatives 1998-2001 and President of the Senate 2001-03.

2007-08 Minister of Foreign Affairs Lisa Shoman
Ambassador to the USA and the Organisation of American States from 2000 until her appointment to the Senate and Cabinet. (b. 1964-)

 

Last update 09.02.08