Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
Parliament of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) (Female suffrage 1962) In a political Union with USA since 1978 as an US dependency with autonomy

2006- Legislative Secretary of the Senate Maria T. Pangelinan
A member of the majority D-Saipan Party, she is the country's first female Senator. Other women have been members of the House of Representatives. On various occations she has Acted as Senate President.
 

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