Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
Parliament of Guatemala (female suffrage 1945)

Also see Guatemala Ministers

The Junta Directive is elected each year in January

1990-91 President of the Congreso Nacional Ana Catalina Reyes Soberanis (14.1-12.1)
Minister of Labour and Social Affairs 1985-90, Lider Partido Democratica Cristiani Guatemala from 1990 and Presidental Candidate in 1990.

1994-95 and 1997-98 President of the Congreso Nacional Arabella Castro Q. de Comparini (14.1-13.1)
She was candidate for the Post of Vice-President of the Republic 1999.

1996-97 4. Secretary of the Congreso Nacional Ana María Vilegas de Fortín
1999-2000 3. Vice-President

1997-98 3. Vice-President of the Congreso Nacional Rosalina Tuylúc Valásques

1998-99 1. Vice-President of the Congreso Nacional Gladys Anabella de León Ruíz

2000-04 2. Vice-President of the Congreso Nacional Zury Mayté Ríos-Montts Sosa de López-Vilatoro
2008-09 3. Secretary of the Congreso Nacional
2009-10 5. Secretary of the Congreso Nacional
Zury Ríos is a lading member of Frente Republicano Guatemalteco F.R.G, From 2004 Vice-President of the Foreign Affairs' Committee. She is daughter of José Efraín Ríos Montt, former dictator and 2000-01 President of the Congress. Her mother stood as Presidential candidate in 1995 but she was turned down by the election committee because of her relation to Ríos Montt. In 2004 she married the US Republican Congressman Jerry Weller. (b. 1968-).

2000-01 5. Secretary of the Congreso Nacional Zulema Finé Paz Barranco de Rodríguez

2002-03 2. Secretary of the Congreso Nacional Aura Marina Otzoy Colaj

2003-04 3. Secretary of the Congreso Nacional Gloria Marina Barillas Carías

2005-06 3. Vice-President of the Congreso Nacional Ingrid Roxana Baldetti Elias

2008-09 4. Secretary of the Congreso Nacional Rosa Zapeta

2009-10 1. Secretary of the Congreso Nacional Maura Estrada Mansilla

2009-10 3. Secretary of the Congreso Nacional Lilian Elizabeth Donis

2009-10 4. Secretary of the Congreso Nacional Reynabel Estrada Roca Cuarto

2012-13 2. Vice-President of the Congreso Nacional Nineth Montenegro

2012-13 3. Secretary of the Congreso Nacional Emillenne Mazariegos

2013-14 1.  Vice-President of the Congreso Nacional Mirma Magnolia Figueroa Resen de Coro

2014-15 3. Secretary Ana Regina del Rosario Guzmán Sánchez

Last update 14.05.14