Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
Parliament of Turks and Caicos Islands (female suffrage 1959)

British Crown Colony

1991-94 Speaker of the Legislative Council Rosita Beatrice Missick-Butterfield
First woman to be elected to the Turks and Caicos Islands Parliament in 1984, and also the first female Speaker of the House.

1998-99 Speaker of the Legislative Council Emily Saunders
Minister of Health, Welfare, Social Security 1994-98.

Ca. 2003- Clerk to the Legislative Council Ruth Blackman

2007-09 Deputy Speaker of the House of Parliament Karen Delancy 
Minister for Health, Social Services and Gender Affairs 2003-05 and Minister of Home Affairs and Human Services from 2009.