Female Heads of Government

 

#	Country	Leader	In office since:	Notes
1	Ireland	President Mary McAleese	Nov. 11, 1997 -	elected
2	Finland (1)	President Tarja Halonen	Mar. 1, 2000 -	elected
3	Germany	Chancellor Angela Merkel	Nov. 22, 2005 -	elected
4	Liberia	President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf	Jan. 16, 2006 -	elected
5	India	President Pratibha Patil	Jul. 25, 2007 -	elected
6	Argentina	President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner	Dec. 10, 2007 -	elected
7	Bangledesh	Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed	Jan. 6, 2009 -	elected
8	Iceland	Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurdardóttir	Feb. 1, 2009 -	appointed 2009, elected 2009
9	Croatia	Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor	Jul. 6, 2009 -	appointed
10	Lithuania	President Dalia Grybauskaite	Jul. 12, 2009 -	elected
11	Kyrgyzstan	President Rosa Otunbayeva	Apr. 7, 2010 -	coup
12	Costa Rica	President Laura Chinchilla	May 8, 2010 -	elected
13	Trinidad and Tobago	Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar	May 26, 2010 -	elected
14	Australia	Prime Minister Julia Gillard	Jun. 24, 2010 -	appointed 2010, elected 2010
15	Slovakia	Prime Minister Iveta Radicová	Jul. 8, 2010 -	elected
16	Brazil	President Dilma Rousseff	Jan. 1, 2011 -	elected
17	Switzerland	President Micheline Calmy-Rey	Jan. 1, 2011 -	appointed
18	Peru	Prime Minister Rosario Fernández	Mar. 19, 2011 -	appointed
19	Kosovo	President Atifete Jahjaga	Apr. 7, 2011 -	elected
20	Thailand	Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra	Aug. 8, 2011 -	elected