Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
Republic of Italy/ Republica Italiana (Female suffrage 1945)

Also see Italy Ministers

Palamento: Senato della Republica/ Senato and Cámara dei Deputati/ Chamber of Deputies

1945 Vice-President of the Consulta Nazionale Annamaria Guicli Cingolani
Appointed member of the National Consultative Council initiated by the British 1945-46. (1886-)

1948-58 Secretary of the Cámara dei Diputati Giuliana Nenni
1963-68 Vice-President of the Cámara
(b. 1911-)

1958-63 Secretary of the Senato Angela Merlin
(b. 1889)

1972-79 Vice-President of the Cámara dei Diputati  Prof. Nilde Iotti
1979-92 President of the Cámara dei Diputati
In 1962 and 1968-72 Vice-President of the parliamentary group of Partito Communista di Italia, 1969 Vice-President of the Assembly of Montecitorio, 1992  Presidential Candidate, 1997-99 Vice-President of the Council of Europe. As President of the Chamber of Deputies she was the third in the state hierarchy after the President and President of the Senato. She lived (1926-99)

1972-76 Vice-President of the Senato Tullia Carettoni Tomagnoli
Secretary of the PSI Group 1976-78. (b. 1918-)

1978-83 and 1987-92 Vice-President of the Cámara dei Diputati Dr. Maria Eletta Martini

1983-87  Secretary of the Senato Ines Boffardi
Undersecretary by the President of the Council of Ministers in charge of Women's Affairs 1978-79 (b. 1919-)

1987-92 Secretary of Senato Isa Ferragiti Vallerini

1987-94 and 2001-06 Secretary of Senato Maria Rosaria Manieri
1996-2001 Quaestor

1987-92 Secretary of the Cámara dei Diputati Angela Francese

1989-94 Secretary of the Cámara dei Diputati Emma Bonino
2008-13 Vice-President of the Senato
Ex-President of Parttito Radicale, 1995-99 EU-Commissioner, 1999 and 2013 Presidential Candidate, Minister of International Trade 2006-08 and Foreign Affairs from 2013.

1992-94 Vice-President of the Senato Tato’ Giglio Tedesco
(b. 1926-)

1994-96 President of the Cámara dei Diputati Irene Pivetti         
(b. 1964-)

1994-2001 Secretary of Senato Dr. Franca D’Allesandro Prisco
(b. 1931-)

1994-96 Secretary of the Cámara dei Diputati Edena Montecchi

1994-96 Quaestor of the Cámara dei Diputati Marida Bologesi

1996-2001 Vice-President of the Senato Ersilia Salvato

1996-2001 Questor of the Cámara dei Diputati Maura G.M. Camporano Andriono

1996-2006 Secretary of the Cámara dei Diputati Alberta de Simone

1996-2001 Secretary of the Cámara dei Diputati Rosanna Moroni

1996-2001 Secretary of the Cámara dei Diputati Guiseppina Servodio

1996-2001 Secretary of the Cámara dei Diputati Adrina Bartolic

1996-2001 Secretary of the Cámara dei Diputati Tiziana Maiolo

1996-2001 Secretary of the Cámara dei Diputati Mara Burani Poccaccini

1996-2001 Secretary of Senato Dr. Francesca Scopelliti

1996-2001 and 2009-13 Secretary of Senato Hega Thaler Aussenhofer
2006-08 Questor of the Senato

2001-06 Questor of the Cámara dei Diputati Paola Manzini

2001-08 Secretary of the Cámara dei Diputati Lalla Trupia

2001-04 Secretary of the Cámara dei Diputati Alberta de Simone

2001-06 Secretary of the Cámara dei Diputati Gabriella Pistone

2001-06 Secretary of the Cámara dei Diputati Tiziana Valpiano

2001-05 Secretary of the Senato Prof. Marida Dentamaro

2001-06 Secretary of the Senato Dr. Monica Bettoni Brandani

2001-06 Secretary of the Senato prof. Cinzia Dato

2002-12 President-By-Age of the Senato Rita Levi-Montalcini
Senator for life, she chose not to chose not to be the temporary president during the first session of the Senate in 2006. In 1986 she shared the Nobel prize for medicine with biochemist Stanley Cohen. She lived (1909-2012)