Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
Female Ministers of the
Czech Republic (Czechia)/ Ceská
Republika
(Female Suffrage 1918) Formerly the Kingdom of Bohemia-Moravia,
later a part of The Austro-Hungarian Empire which became the Republic
of Czechoslovakia in 1918 until the two parts split up at 1.1.93 and
becoming independent.
See
also Czech Parliament
1969-71
Deputy Minister of Labour Maria Kabrhelová
From 1976-89 Vice-President of the Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia, Circa 1987
Secretary of Central Committee of Communist Party.
1969-86
Minister of Post and Telecommunication Růžena Urbánková
(b. 1912-)
?1982-86?
Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Affairs Jirna Rolencová
1988-89
Minister of Education and Youth Jana Synková
1989-92
Minister of Commerce, Trade and Tourism Vlasta Stepová
Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 1999.
(b. 1938-)
1989-90
Minister of Justice Dagmar Buresová
President of the Narodni Rada (National Council)
1990-91
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Secretary General and Deputy Chairperson of
the Government Office for International Relations Victoria Hradská
In 1990 Chairperson of Liberal Democratic Party. (b. 1944-)
1990-93
Deputy Minister of Economic Control Jitka Zetková
1992
Minister of Transportation Kvetoloslava (Kveta) Korinková
From 1988-90 Deputy Minister of Economic Development, 1990-91 Minister of
Economic Control of Czechoslovakia
1992-98 Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Affairs Jirina Vonkova
Around 1996-97 Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Helena Bambasova
1996-98
Deputy Minister of Defence Hana Demlova
She is former mayor of Pardubice.
1997-98 Minister of Justice Vlasta Parkanová
2006 Designate Minister of Defence (June-August and again in December)
2007-09 Minister of Defence
2009 Deputy Prime Minister
Member of Parliament 1990-1992 and 1997-2010
for the KDU-CSL and Tradition, Responsibility, Prosperity
(TOP09) from 2010. She was nominated twice for the post of defence ministers in
the prolonged futile attempts to form a government after the elections in June.
Chairperson of the Club of
Christian-Democratic Union - Czechoslovak Peoples' Party (KDU-CSL) in the
Chamber of Deputies 2006-07. (b. 1951)
1997-98
Deputy Minister of Finance Jana Furstova
2001-2005 Deputy Minister of Justice
(b. 1942)
Circa 1997-98 Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade for Construction Terézia
Hrncirova
1998
Minister of Health Zuzana Roithová
Former Director of the Kralovske Vinohrady Training Hospital and Deputy
Chairperson of the Association of Czech Hospitals.
Former
Vice-Chairperson
of Christian Democratic Union (KDU-CSL),
Senator 1998-2004 and Member of the
European Parliament from
2004. (b.
1953-)
1998-2002 Deputy Minister of Foreign
Affairs Helena Opolecka
From 2002 she is assistant to the the President of the UN General Assembly
2002-03 the former Czech Foreign Minister Jan Kavan. (b. 1955-)
1998-99
Deputy Minister of Finance Irma Zlatohávková
(b. 1925-)
1998-2000 Deputy Minister of the Interior Yvonne Strecková, CSc
(b. 1934-)
1998-2002
Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Milada Vlasakova
1998-2002 Deputy Minister of Environment Dana Rimanova
1998-2002 Deputy Minister of Environment Eva Tylova
1998-2002
Deputy Minister of Environment Martina Motolova
1998-2000 Deputy Minister of Education, Youth and Sport Vladimira Rattayova
1998-2002
Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Policy Bela Hejná
2005-10
Deputy
Minister of Labour and Social Affairs
1999-2010
Deputy Minister of the Interior Anna Štanclová
1999-2010
Deputy Minister of Transport and Communication Marcela Gürlichová
1999-2010
Deputy Minister of Transport and Communication Daniela Kovaciková
2000-02 Deputy Minister without Portfolio Tatjana Holeckova
2001-10 Deputy Minister of Defence Jaroslava Pribylova
Former leader of the Havlickuv Brod
District
2001-02
Deputy Minister of Culture Alexandra Wunchova
2001-02
Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Affairs Jarmila Skvrnova
From 2002 Advisor of the Prime Minister
2002-06 Minister of Education, Youth
and Sports Petra Buzkova,
Deputy Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies 1996-2002, lawyer, former Vice-chairperson
of the Czech Social Demcratic Party (CSSD).
2002-04 Minister of Health Marie Souckova
She is a physician and since 2001 Vice-chairperson of the Czech Social Demcratic
Party (CSSD).
2002-04
Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Affairs Ludmilla Mullerova
Member
of Parliament
1998-2002 and Senator
from 2004.
2002-04
Deputy Minister for Regional Development Ivana Hanacikova
Member of Parliament 1998-2002, (b. 1972).
2002-10 Deputy Minister of Culture
Petra Smolikova
2003-05 Deputy Minister
for Information Technologies Dana Berova
2005-10 Minister for Information
Technologies
(b. 1967)
2004-10 Deputy Minister for Information Technologies
Jana Vohralikova
2004-06 Deputy Minister of Regional Development Vera Jourová
2014 Minister
of Regional Development
2014- Designate Commissioner
for Justice, Consumers Affars and Gender Equality
First
Vice-Chairperson of ANO from 2013 and MP from the same year. Former Social
Democrat. (b. 1964-).
2004-10 Deputy Minister of Health Miroslava Ourednikova
2004-05 Minister of
Health Milada Emmerova
Member of Parliament since 1996, chairperson of
Committee for Health and Social Affairs since 2002 and former professor at the Pilsen Medical College of Charles University. (b. 1944).
2004-10
Deputy Minister of Education, Youth and Sport
Alena Sterbova
2005-07 Deputy Minister of Finance
Dana Trezziova
(b. 1961-)
2005-10 Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Affairs
Eva Smejkalova
2006 Designate Minister of Culture Michaela Sojdrova
Member of Parliament since 1996, member of KDU-CSL. After months of
negotiations, the coalition-deal broke down and her party did not participate in
the government after all. (b. 1963)
2006 Designate Minister of Education Dana Kuchtova
(June-August and December)
2007 Minister for Education,
Youth and Sport
First Vicechairperson of SZ (Green Party) 2004-08, environmental activist, teacher.
After months of negotiations, the coalition-deal broke down and her party did
not participate in the government after all, and in December the President
refused to appoint the cabinet. But in December the following year she became
member of the new government. (b.
1961)
2006-07 Minister of Agriculture Dr. Milena Vicenova
Civil Servant in the ministry from 1996. Nonpartisan.
Secretary General
at the Ministry of Regional Development in 2007 and appointed Ambassador to the EU
in 2007.
2006-07 Minister of Education, Youth and Sport Miroslava Kopicova
2009-10 Minister of Education, Youth and Sport
Director of National Educational Fund until her appointment. Non-partisan.
2006-10 Deputy Foreign Minister Helena Bambasova
Former ambassador to the Netherlands.
2006-10 1. Deputy Minister of
Education Eva Bartonova
2007 Acting Minister of Education
2010-13 Deputy Minister of Education, Youth
and Sports
Acted until the Green Party found a replacement for Dana Kuchtova.
2006-2010 Deputy Minister of Environment
Rut Bizkova
2010 Minister of
Environment
2010-13 Deputy Minister of Environment
(b. 1957)
2006 Designate Minister and Chairperson of the Cabinet's Legislative Council
Simenona Zikmundova
Unsuccessful candidate for the post of Ombudsman in 2000 and from 2001 director of
the Regional Office of the region Vysocina, member of Christian-Democratic
Union - Czechoslovak Peoples' Party (KDU-CSL) (b. 1958)
2007-09 Minister without portfolio for Human Rights, Minorities and Equal
Opportunities Dzamila Stehlikova
Džamila Stehlíková is a psychiatrist and Vice-Chairperson of the Green Party (SZ)
2005-07, she had been
designated to the same portfolio in 2006. (b. 1962)
2007 Minister of Culture Helena Trestikova
Helena Třeštíková is a famous film and TV director; she is non-partisan nominated by
Christian-Democratic Union - Czechoslovak Peoples' Party (KDU-CSL), Assistant
Professor at the Film Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts. Resigned after
2 weeks in office. (b. 1949).
2008-13 Deputy Minister of Finance Klára Król
2009 Minister of Health Daniela Filipiová
Architect by original profession, after 1986 surgery remained on the wheelchair
and started to focus on health issues, among devoted her career fighting for
constructing all public places without barriers, Civic Democratic Party (ODS)
Senator since 2000. (b. 1957-)
2009-10 Minister of Health Dana Jurásková
Director-General of General of the University Hospital in Prague from before
1996, President of the Czech Association of Nurses from and Deputy
Director-General of the Thomayer University Hospital in Prague, since 2009.
Non-partisan. (b. 1961-).
2009-10 Minister of Justice Daniela Kovárová
Director of the
Judicial Academy from 2008. Non-partisan.
(b. 1964-).
2009-13 Deputy Minister of Interior Světlana Kubíková
2010-13 Deputy Minister of Transport Ivana Kubaštová
2010-13 Deputy Minister of Culture Anna Matoušková
2010-13 Deputy Minister of Culture Michaela Vojtová
2011-13 Deputy Prime Minister Karolina Peake
2012 Minister
of Defence
Lawyer, member
of the Chamber of Deputies since 2010 and Chairperson of the Constitutional and
Legal Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, also Deputy Chair of the
Public Affairs Party, VV and founding chairperson of LIDEM – Liberal Democrats
in 2012-13. (b. 1975-)
2011-13 Minister of Culture Alena Hanákov
Member of
STAN (Starostové a nezávislí, Mayors and Independents; STAN is a movement
closely connected to the political party TOP09) (b. 1958-)
2013 Prime Minister-Nominate Miroslava Němcová
The
Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies 2010-13, she was nominated by the
centre-right former government coalition on 19. June to succeed the former Prime
Minister, but the President nominated a male technocrat, who soon after lost a
vote of no confidence in the Parliament, which then decided to desolve itself.
2013-14
Caretaker Minister
of Justice
Marie Benešová
Former Senior State Procecutor she was nominated as member of
the proposed technocrat cabinet.
2014- Minister of Justice Helena Válková
Unpolitical
University Professor (b. 1951-)
2014- Minister of Labour and Social
Affairs
Michaela Marksová-Tominová
2015- Acting Minister of Education, Youth and
Sports
Member of Czech Social Democratic Party (CSSD) since 1997 and Civil Servant (b.
1969-)
2014-16 Deputy Minister of Interior Adriana Krnáčová
2014-
Deputy Minister of Interior Monika Pálková
2014- Deputy Minister of
Regional Development Klára Dostálová
2014- Deputy Minister of Environment
Berenika Peštová
2014- Deputy Minister of Social Affairs and Labour Iva
Merhautová
2014- Deputy Minister of Social Affairs and Labour Zuzana
Jentschke Stöcklova
2014- Deputy Minister for Regional Development Olga
Letáčková
2014-16 Deputy Minister of Social Affairs and Labour
Jana Hanzlíková
2014- Deputy Minister of Education, Youth and Sports
Petra Bartáková
2014- Deputy Minister of Culture Kateřina Kalistová
2014-16 Deputy Minister of Culture Anna Matoušková
2015- Deputy
Minister of Health Lenka Ptáčková Melicharová
2015- Deputy Minister of
Health Lenka Taie Kolaříková
2016- Deputy Minister for Finance Lenka Jurošková
2016- Deputy Minister for Transport Lenka Voplatková
2016- Deputy Minister for Industry and Trade Lenka Kovačovská
2016- Deputy Minister for Agriculture Jaroslava Beneš
Špalková
2016- Deputy Minister for Education, Youth and Sports
Dana Prudíková
2016- Deputy Minister for Culture Petra Šmolíková
2016-
Deputy Minister for Human Rights, Equal Opportunities and Legislation Martina
Štěpánková
Last updates 31.12.16