Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
Female Heads of the
Parliament of Canada
See also Canada Ministers
1955-62
Speaker Pro-Tempore of the Senate Cairine Reay Mackay Wilson 1972-74 Speaker of the Senate Muriel McQueen Fergusson 1974-79 Speaker of the Senate Renaude Lapointe
1974-76 Assistant
Deputy Chairperson of Committees of the Whole
House Albanie Morin 1980-84 Speaker of the House of Commons Jeanne Sauvé
1986-90 Assistant Deputy Chairperson of Committees of the Whole House Andrée
Champagne 1994-96 Deputy Chairperson of Committees of the Whole House Shirley Maheu 1996-97 Assistant Deputy Chairperson of the Whole House Pirette Ringuette-Maltis
1999-2002 and 2006-10 Speaker
pro tempore of the Senate Rose-Marie Losier-Cool 1999-2001 Assistant Deputy Chairperson of Committees of the Whole House Yolande
Thibaul 2001-03 Assistant Deputy Chairperson of the Committees of the Whole House Eleni Bakopanos 2002-04 Speaker Pro
Tempore of the Senate Lucie Pépin 2004
Assistant Deputy Chairperson of the Committees of the Whole
House Betty Hinton
2004-06
Assistant Deputy Chairperson of the Committees of the Whole House Jean
Augustine
2008-12
Deputy Chairperson of the Committees of the Whole House Denise Savoie
Last update 21.09.16
Daughter of a liberal senator and wife of a liberal MP, Delegate to the United Nations, President of the Liberal Party's Women's Wing, first woman
to chair a Senate Standing Committee (Immigration and Labour. Mother of 8 children. And lived (1885-1962)
Senator 1953-75. She lived (1899-1997)
1982-83 Speaker Pro-Tempore
She lived (1912-2002)
She was the 3.
Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons. She lived (1921-76)
In 1972 Minister of State of Science,1974-75 Minister of Environment and 1975-79 of Communication and Culture, 1984-90 23erd Governor General of Canada. She lived (1922-93)
1990-93 Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons and Chairperson of Committees of
the Whole House
During her first tenure she was
the 3. Deputy
Speaker of the House of Commons,
before becoming the 1st Deputy of the Speaker.
2004-06 (†) Speaker Pro Tempore of the Senate
Liberal MP from 1988 before becoming Assistant Deputy-Speaker. Senator 1996
until her death 10 years later. She lived (1931-2006).
She was Deputy Speaker of the Legislature of New Brunswick 1987-91.
Liberal senator 1995-2012
and Chief Government Whip in the Senate 2004-06. (b. 1937-)
She was the 3. Deputy
Speaker of the House of Commons.
Liberal MP from 1993 and 1997-99 Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of
Justice. (b. 1954-)
Deputy Whip of the Liberal Party.
MP for the Canadian Alliance
since 2000 and Parliamentary Secretary of Veteran Affairs from 2006.
Liberal MP 1993-2006. Former Parliamentary Secretary and Minister of State.
2011-12
Deputy Speaker
MP for the New Democratic Party 2006-12. In 2011 she came second in the last
of numerous rounds of voting for the post of Speaker of the House. (b. 1943-)
2015- Speaker PT of the Senate Nicole Eaton
2015- Assistant Deputy Speaker and
Deputy Chair of Committees of the Whole House Carol Hughes