This is the list of the first women appointed as ambassadors in the countries which has had a female ambassador to this date. Some of the information in this list is supplied by Mart Martin.
Afghanistan
1979-80 Dr. Anahita
Ratebezad, Yugoslavia
Former Minister in
the Government
Albania
Circa 1982 Syeda Laze,
Viet Nam (Male/Female?)
1993-? Suzana Faja, Poland
1998-? Liljana Bsjati, USA
Algeria
2001-? Malika Saci, Denmark
Three other women were appointed Ambassadors in 2001.
Andorra
1993-99 Meritxell Mateu
i Pi,
2000-05
Ambassador to Denmark
Minister of External Relations from 2007.
Angola
1978-? Maria de Jesus Haller, Sweden
Antigua
and Barbuda
Around 1988 A.A.B Vanderpoole, United Kingdom
1992-98 Deborach-Mae
Lowell, Canada (Acting)
Around 1998 Ambassador-at-large Yvonne Maignly
Argentina
Circa 1962 Angela C.
Romera Vara, Panama
Until
1976 Dr. P.B. Cabuet, The Netherlands
Armenia
1919-20
Diana
Agabeg Apcar, Counsul to Japan.
As the First Republic did not send any other
diplomats to the country (or most other countries), she acted as the official
representative of the First Republic of Armenia to Japan
1991 Sevad Sevan,
Bulgaria
Australia
1971-75 Dame Anabella
Rankin, New Zealand
Former minister
Austria
1959 Johanna
Mondschein, Norway
1966-70
Dr. Johanna Nestor, India and Ceylon (Sri Lanka
1972-76 Israel
1979-83 Ireland
Azerbaijan
1993-?
Eleonora-hanoum Gousseinova, France
Bahamas
1979-80 Dr. Patricia
E. Ridgers, Canada (Acting) and Chargé d’affaires to USA
1982-83 Deputy
Representative to OAS
1983-86 Acting
Ambassador to Canada
1988-94 Ambassador to
United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Germany, European Communities and various United
Nations Organizations
1988-98 Under
Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1986
Margaret McDonald, USA
Bahrain
2000-05 Sheika Hayya
bint Rashid Al-Kalifha, France
and UNESCO
2001-05 Ambassador to Switzerland and Spain
Also
known as Shaikha Haya Rashed
Al-Khalifa, she is a member of
the ruling Al-Khalifa-family
Bangladesh
Circa 1980-81 Tahmina
Khan Dolly, Sri Lanka
Barbados
1975 Cyralene
Gale, Canada
1970-73 Valerie T.
McComie, USA
1973-76 Venezuela
Belarus
1992-94 Nina
Nikolaevna Mazai, France (Chargé d’Affaire)
1994-97
Ambassador to France
1996-97 Spain
Deputy Foreign Minister 1997-2001.
Belgium
1966-69 Edmonde Dever,
Assistant Representative to the United Nations
1973-78 Sweden
1978-81 Austria
1981-88 United
Nations
Belize
1988-89 Ursula H.
Barrow, Deputy Representative to the United Nations
1989-91 United
Nations
1993-98 United
Kingdom, Germany, France and European Union
Bénin
Ca.1980-83-?
Bernardine do Régio, Nigeria
1992-94 Canada
Bhutan
2014 Kunzang Choden Namgye, United Nations
2014 Pema Choden, Bangladesh
Bolivia
1969 Teresa Alexander
Dupleich, Organization of American States
Circa
1982-ca. 91 Myriam Paz Cerruto, France
1982-83
1983-86 and 1993-?
Venezuela
From 1993 Venezuela
Acting President of the Republic of Bolivia 1979-80.
Bosnia-Herzegovina
1992-? Sadzida
Silaidzic, Pakistan
1992-?
Bisera Turkovic, Croatia
Botswana
1970-74 Dr. Gaositwe
K.C.Tipe, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Norway, Denmark, European Communities
and Nigeria
Later Minister of Foreign
Affairs
Brazil
1951 Ivete Vargas,
Special Ambassador on a mission to Lebanon
1959-60
Beata Vettori, European Communities
1966-69 Ecuador and
Senegal
1959-63 Odette De Cavalho e Souza to ?
1965 Dora Vasconcelos,
Canada and Trinidad and Tobago
Brunei
Circa 1996/97- HRH
Princess Hama of Brunei, Ambassador-at-Large in the Foreign Ministry
Many times Acting Foreign Minister.
1998-
Peringran Hajah Masrainak Peringran Haji Ahmad, Denmark (Non-resident)
2000-01 France
2002-? Italy
Bulgaria
1949-52-? Stela
Dmitrova Blagoeva, USSR and Finland
Burkina
Faso
1985 Maimouna
Ouattara, Ghana
1986-90
Anne Konaté;
Mali, Senegal, Mauritania, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, The Gambia and Cape Verde
1990-99 Denmark,
Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
From 1996 "Doyenne de
la corps diplomatique au Court de la reine Danoise".
Burma
(Myanmar)
1960-67 Daw Khin Kuy,
India
The only female
ambassador - widow of Aung San and Mother of Aung San Suu Kuy, the Leader of
Myanmar from 2016
Burundi
1994-circa 98 Julie
Ngiriye, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway (and Iceland)
Cambodia
Around 1990/91 Bo Rasi, USSR
2002-? to Bulgaria
Cameroon
1982-86 Simone Mairie,
United Nations
Canada
1930 Irene Parlby,
Delegate (Ambassador) to the League of Nations
She was Minister without Portfolio in the Province of Alberta
1958-61
Margaret Blance Meagher, Israel
1961
Cypres
1962-66 Austria
1967-69 Kenya and
Uganda
1969-73 Sweden
Capo Verde
1997-99
Marly de Meneses Barbosa-Vincente, Denmark, Estonia, Finland Iceland, Norway and
Sweden and the Netherlands
1999-2001
Maria de Fatima Lima Veiga, Cuba
Afterwards Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs and Ambassador to the United
Nations.
1999-? Maria Luisa Ferredo Ribeiro, France
Former Representative to UNESCO 1992-93
Ca 1998-?
Ambassador and Director General for the Francophonie Dorothée Aimée Malanzapa
Chad
Around
1978 Dr. Helena Tchiouna, Cameroon
1993-97 China
1989-? Martine
Djoumbi, Zaire
China
1979-81 Deng Xuesong,
The Netherlands
1982-84 Denmark
Chile
1927-30 Olga de la Barra, Vice-Consul at Glasgow
1930-? Consul-attaché in London.
1928-30 Ines Ortuzar, Consul at Hull
1930-? Consul at Glasgow with responsibility for
the whole of Scotland.
1933 Gabriela
Mistral, Ambassador-at-large for Latin American Culture. Also Representative by
the League of Nations, possibly with rang of Ambassador
1947-? Carmen Vidal de Senoret, The Neterlands (envoy/minister)
She was married to
the envoy to United Kingdom
1950-52
Ana Figuero Gjardo, United Nations (Ambassador)
Colombia
1966-69
Esmeralda Arboleda Cavidad, Austria and Yugoslavia
1969-? Deputy Perament
Representative to the United Nations
Former Minister in
the Government.
Congo-Brazzaville
Circa 1985-92 C.
Eckomband, Guinea
Congo-Kingazza
(Formerly Zaire)
1983-87 Bintou'
A-Tshabola, Austria
Cook
Islands (Associated State with New Zealand)
2002-03 Audrey Pereira-Brown, New Zealand (Acting)
(1st Secretary in the High Commission in
Wellington)
2003-? Sonya Kamana, New Zealand (Acting)
(1st Secretary in the High Commission in Wellington)
Costa
Rica
1959 Angela Acuña
Braun de Chahon, Organization of American States
1964-?
Maria de Chittenden, United Kingdom, Norway etc.
Côte
d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
1996-circa 2004 Liliana
Marie-Laure Ba, Denmark, Finland, Norway
Croatia
1992 Anamarija
Besker, United Nations in Vienna
1995
Vesna Girardi Jurkic, France
Former Minister
Cuba
Circa 1962 Blanca Díaz
Collazo, Colombia
Cyprus
1993-96 Myrna Y.
Kleopas, China
1998-2000 Italy
2000- United Kingdom
Cyprus, Turkish Republic of Northern
2006-? Yonca Şenyiğit, Foreign Representative to
United Kingdom
Co-Representative 2005-06.
Czechoslovakia
1990-93 Hanna
Seveikova, Denmark
Continued as
ambassador for the Czech Republic until 1995
1990-93
Magdalena Vasarayova, Austria
Continued as
ambassador for Slovakia
1990-93
Paulina Rznickova, Spain
Continued as
ambassador for the Czech Republic
Czech
Republic
1993-95 Hanna
Seveikova, Denmark
Represented
Czechoslovakia since 1990
1993-?
Paulina Rznickova, Spain
Represented
Czechoslovakia since 1990
1993-?
Rita Klimova, USA
Represented
Czechoslovakia since 1992
1993-?
Marketa Fiakova, Poland
Denmark
1949-55 Bodil
Begtrup, Iceland (Envoy)
1955 Ambassador to
Iceland
1956-59 European
Council
1959-68 Switzerland
1968-73 Portugal
The
Dominican Republic
1950-71 Minerva
Bernardino, United Nations
1971-76 The
Netherlands
Dominica
Circa 1985 Marciella H.
Mukasa, USA
Deutsche
Demokratische Republik (German Democratic Republic) DDR
1958-66 Eleonora
Straimer, Yugoslavia (Envoy)
1966-69 Ambassador to
Yugoslavia
1974-78
Eleonora Smid, Guinea and Sierra Leone
1974-75 Guinea-Bissau
1975-79 Gambia
1981-89 Morocco
1982-89 Senegal and
Capo Verde
(The second and last
female ambassador of DDR)
Ecuador
1975-78 Amamda
Pesantes Garcia, Denmark
Egypt
1978 Aisha Reteb, in
the Foreign Ministry
1979-81 Denmark
1981-84 Western
Germany
She was a former
minister
El
Salvador
1988-94 Ana-Cristina
Sol Midence, France, Belgium, Portugal, European Communities and UNESCO
1994-97 USA
Later Minister in the
government.
Equatorial
Guinea
Circa 1993-?
Maria Resserección Bita Boriesa, Morocco
Eritrea
1999-2001 Hibret Berhe
Misgun, Sweden, Norway and Finland
2000-01 Denmark
1999-? Hana Simon, Belgium and European Union
Estonia
1991-92 Senta Alas,
Denmark
1992 Valvi Stikaitiene, Lithuania
1992
Leili Utno, Latvia
Ethiopia
1975-77 Yodith Imre,
Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway
Former Vice-minister
of Foreign Affairs
1990-94
Sahele Work Zewdie, Senegal
1994-? Djubouti
Last update 20.03.16