Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
Saint
Lucia
(Female Suffrage 1927/51) Contested between France and Britain before becoming
a part of the Colony of Leeward and Windward Islands, became independent 1979
See
also Saint Lucia Heads and St.
Lucia Parliament
1979-
Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of Saint Lucia and of Her
Other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth
(22.02-)
Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland since 1952.
1964-74
Clerk of the Government U. Ravenau
1974-80 Minister of Housing, Community Development, Local Government and Social
Affairs, Groups Needs, Cooperatives, the Provident Fund and Water Heraldine
Rock
She was member of the Castries Town Board 1964-74 and became the first female MP 1974. Also the first female
vice-President of the United Worker’s Party.
1978-81
Parliamentary Secretary to the Office of the Prime Minister Hollis Bristol
1981-84
Minister of Housing, Local Development, Local Government and Social Affairs Sylvia Burton
1981-85 Minister of Education and Culture Margurita Alexander
Senator
1992-97
Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs
Lorraine Williams
1994-97 Minister of Women’s Affairs
Senator.
Ambassador for the Organisation of East Carribean
States, OECS in Canada 2003-07 and Assistant Director-General of FAO from 2007
the same year her sister, Rosie Husbands-Mathurin, was appointed President of
the Senate.
1997-2001
Minister of Health, Human Service and Family Affairs Sarah-Lucy
Flood-Beaubrun
1997-2004 Minister of Gender Relations
2001-04 Minister of Home Affairs
In 2001 she gave birth to her first child.
In January 2004 she was dismissed from the government because she protested
against a decision to allow abortion under certain circumstances, she founded the party the Organization for National
Empowerment. Resigned from
parliament in 2006 and lot the subsequent by-election and then joined the
opposition
United Worker’s Party. Appointed Speaker of the House of Assembly in 2007. (b. 1969-)
1997-2000 Parliamentary Secretary of State of Civil Aviation and Financial
Service and Tourism
Menissa Rambally
2000-01 Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism
2001-06 Minister of Social Transformation, Culture and Local Government
MP 1997-2006. From 2006 there were no female members of the House of Assembly
and none of the senators appointed by her party in 2007 were women.
(b. 1976-)
1997-
Governor General Hon.
Dr. Dame
Calliopa Pearlette Louisy
(17.9.97-)
2007
2007- Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister, Foreign Affairs and Finance
Her full name is
Last update 14.09.07