Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
Heads of State of Morocco/ Al-Mamlaka Al-Maghrebia (female suffrage 1959/61)Formerly a French protectorate became a sovereign state in 1956

Also see Morocco Ministers

793-circa 810 Regent Kanza of Idrisis of Saghir
For son Idris II ibn Idris of Saghir (793-823) who was prince from his birth.

1061-1107 Joint Ruler al-qa'ima bi mulkini Zainab al-Nafzawiyya of the Berber Empire (Northern Africa (Algeria, Morocco, Tunesia)
Contemporary sources name her "the one in charge of her husband's realm" and she was joint ruler with her husband, Yusuf Ibn Tashufin of the The Murabbitine Empire or Spanish Almorávides, and it was due to her wealth, connexions and good advice, her husband could  found the largest Moroccan empire that spread from Andalusia to Senegal. In 1086 he attacked Spain largely restoring the Islamic position there. The Almoravids were Orthodox and acknowledged the Abbasid Caliph. They ended up getting overwhelmed by a new religious movement, less conservative, the Almohads.


14…. Tribal Chief Lalla Azia

1510-52 Governor Sayyida al-Hurra of Tetouán (Morocco)
Also known as Sayida Al Horra Bent Ali Ar Rachid, she was first confirmed as prefect and then appointed governor of the city state of Tetouán ("Hakima Tatwan"). She was the undisputed leader of the pirates in the western Mediterranean, and in 1520 captured the Governors wife and caused great damage to the Porugese colonial shipping. She was married to Sultan Al-Mandri and after his death she married Ahmad al-Wattasi, who reigned (1524-49). After her first husband's death, she gained the title al-hurra (Sovereign Lady). She was member of the Andalusian noble family, Banu Rashid, who immigrated to Morocco after the Christian conquest of Muslim Spain. She was deposed in 1552.