Worldwide
Guide to Women in Leadership
Local
Leaders of Iraq (Female suffrage 1964/80)
Also see Iraq Ministers
2003- Prefect Mudira Abu Bakr of the
Dukan Region
The region is situated in the in northern
Suleimaniyah Province in the part of Kurdistan which is controlled by the
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.
2003 Interim
Transitional Civil Sub-administrator in charge of The Central Region and Baghdad Barbara K. Bodine
(21.04.-11.05.03)
During the Iran-Iraq War in the early 1980s she was the deputy principal officer
in Baghdad. Prior to the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, she was Deputy Chief of
Mission in Kuwait and endured a 137-day siege by Iraqi troops of the U.S.
Embassy. During her tenure as Ambassador to Yemen 1997-2001 the destroyer Cole
was bombed and in
2001, she survived an airplane hijacking. (b.
1948-).
2004 Coordinator Barbara Contini, Dhi Qar
She was Head of the Coalition Provisional Authority for the region from
February
to July.