Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
Parliament of 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
Also see Saint Helena Ministers
Around 1988-around 1993 Deputy President of the Senate Charmaine Gardner
Around
1999-2001 Deputy President of the Senate Epheline Jane Bourne
2001-07
Deputy President of the Senate Theresa Romulus
Independent Senator until 2007.
Around 2003- Clerk of Parliament Tamara Gibson
2007- Speaker of the House of Assembly
Sarah Flood-Beaubrun, St. Lucia
1997-2001 Minister of Health, Human Service and Family Affairs, 1997-2004
Minister of Gender Relations, 2001-04 Minister of Home Affairs and in Sarah-Lucy
gave birth to her first child in 2001. 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 in 2007.
(b. 1969-)
2007- President of the Senate Dr Rosemarie Husbands-Mathurin
An educator, she was appointed independent Senator from 2007 and her full name
is Senator The Honourable Dr. Hilda
Rose Marie Husbands-Mathurin
Last update 10.01.07