Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
Female Heads of the Parliament of Belize (till 1973 British Honduras) (female suffrage 1954)

See also Belize Ministers

1984-89 President of the Senate Doris J. Garcia

1989-93 President of the Senate Jane Usher
Between 1979-89 Parliamentary Secretary and Deputy Minister of Health, 1984-89 Parliamentary Secretary of Housing and Co-operatives.

1993-98 Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Faith Babb
Minister of State of Youth etc. 1993-98.

1998-2001 Speaker of the House of Representatives Sylvia Flores
2001-03 President of the Senate
Former Mayor of Dangriga and from 2003 Minister of Defence.

1998-2001 President of the Senate Elizabeth Usher de Zabaneh
2001-08 Speaker of the House of Representatives '
From 2008 there were no female MPs and no female members of the government.

2003-08 Vice-President of the Senate Vincent Parks

2008-12 President of the Senate Andrea Gill

2008-09 Vice-President of the Senate Deborah Mencias McMillan
3 other of the 12 Senators are women.

2010-12 Vice President of the Senate Juliet Thimbriel

2012-15 Vice-President of the Senate Deborah Mencias McMillan

2015- Vice-President of the Senate Dr. Carla Barnett

2017- Speaker of the House of Representatives Laura Tucker Longsworth
Holds high positions within nursing and health administration.

Last update 20.11.15