Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
The State of Grenada (Female suffrage 1951 as part of Leeward and Winward Islands) French Colony till 1783 when it became a British Colony, an associated state in 1967 and independent (Kingdom) in 1974

Also see Grenada Parliament

1951-66 Permanent Secretary of the Executive Council Louise Rowley
She was one of the three PS’s appointed after Grenada got internal self-government and was very influential though never an elected politician. (b. 1912)

1961-65/67 Minister of Social Affairs Cynthia Gairy
1967-74 Minister of Social Affairs, Culture and Community Development

1968-72 Governor The Hon. Dr. Dame Hilda Louise Byroe

1971-74 Parliamentary Secretary of Youth, Community Development, Sports and Co-operatives

1974-78 Parliamentary Secretary of Education, Culture and Social Welfare Nadia Benjamin

1974- Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Grenada and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth (07.02-)

1974-78 Parliamentary Secretary of Youth, Community Development, Sports and Co-operatives W. Nedd

1979-84 Member Revolutionary Council Commander Claudette Kitt
1979-82 Parliamentary Secretary of Health
1982-84 Secretary of Social Affairs in the Ministry of Education and Social  Affairs

1979 Minister of Communication Commander Phyllis Coard
1979-82 Minister of State for Women and Member Revolutionary Council of the Peoples' Government

1979-82 Minister of State of Tourism Commander Pamela Boxo
1982 Secretary of Tourism in Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Tourism

1982 Minister of Education, Youth Affairs, Women, Culture and Sports and Member of the Revolutionary Council Commander Jacqueline Creft

1982 Deputy Secretary of Tourism and Member Revolutionary Council Commander Angela Bishop

1984-85 Minister of Labour and Women Joan Purcell
1990-93 Minister of Tourism, Civil Aviation and Women's Affairs
1993-95 Minister of Works, Community Development, Public Utilities and Women
1995 Minister of Information, Carriacou and Petit Martinique Affairs
From around 1996 Deputy Leader and 1998-99 acting Leader of the National Democratic Congress and Candidate for the post of Prime Minister, MP for Carriacou and Petit Martinique till 1999, when The New National Party won all 15 seats in the House of Representatives. Appointed Senator in 2008.

1984-90 Minister of State of Agriculture and Tourism Pauline Andrews

1988-92 Minister of State for Women's Affairs and Community Development Grace Duncan
1995-96 Minister of Tourism, Civil Aviation, Women's Affairs, Co-operatives and Social Security (Second in the Cabinet)
1996-98 Deputy Premier, Minister of Health, Housing and Environment
Ambassador-at-Large for Caribbean Affairs from 1999

1990-95 Minister of Labour, Co-operatives, Social Security and Community Development Edzel Thomas

1990-95 Leader of the Opposition Winifred Strachen

1993-ca. 1998 Permanent Secretary of External Affairs, Caicom Affairs and Political Unification Shirley Mathlin (one of two Permanent Secretaries in the resort)

1995-96 Minister of Education Lourina Waldron (Third in the Cabinet)
1996-99 Minister of Housing, Women’s Affairs and Social Security
1999-2003 Minister of State for Communication, Works and Public Utilities
2003 Minister of State of Health and Environment
MP until 2003.

1995-ca. 98 Secretary to the Cabinet Gloria Payne-Banfield
Candidate for the Grenada United Labour Party (GULP) in the 2003-elections. The party was not representet in the Parliament.

1998-2003 Minister of Environment and Health Dr. Clarice Modeste-Curwen
2003-07 Minister of Communication, Works and Transport
2007-08 Minister of Tourism, Civil Aviation,  Culture and the Performing Arts

Ca. 1998-ca. 2000 Permanent Secretary of Foreign Affairs Madonna Harford  
From ca. 2000 Permanent Secretary of Tourism, Civil Aviation, Social Security, Gender and Family Affairs

1999 Minister of State of Housing, Women’s Affairs and Social Security Brenda Hood  
1999-2007 Minister of Tourism, Civil Aviation,  Culture and the Performing Arts
1999-2003 Minister of Social Security, National Insurance Scheme, Gender and Family Affairs
2007-08 Minister of Communication, Works and Transport
MP 1999-2003 and then appointed Senator. She has been Acting Foreign Minister and Acting Prime Minister on different occations.

1999-2003 Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, Lands and Fisheries Claris Charles
2003-07 Minister of Education and Labour
2007-08 Minister of Legal Affairs

1999-2003 Parliamentary Secretary responsible for Gender and Family Affairs
2003-08 Minister of Social Services, Gender and Family Affairs and Housing Yolande Bain-Joseph
Senator

2000-08 Secretary to the Cabinet Meryl Forsyth