List of female speakers of national and territorial lower houses
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List of female speakers of national and territorial lower houses

Section Title: National
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Name	Image	Country	Legislative Body	Mandate start	Mandate end	Term length

Annemarie Renger	-	Germany	Bundestag	13 December 1972	14 December 1976	4 years, 1 day

Elisabeth Blunschy	-	Switzerland	National Council	2 May 1977	1977	?

Nilde Iotti	-	Italy	Chamber of Deputies	20 June 1979	22 April 1992	12 years, 307 days

Lidia Gueiler Tejada	-	Bolivia	Chamber of Deputies	August 1979	November 1979	92 days

Jeanne Sauvé	-	Canada	House of Commons	14 April 1980	15 January 1984	3 years, 276 days

Hedi Lang	-	Switzerland	National Council	28 November 1981	28 November 1982	1 year, 0 days

Lindsay Bolden	-	Barbados	House of Assembly	1984	1986	2 years, 0 days

Joan Child	-	Australia	House of Representatives	11 February 1986	28 August 1989	3 years, 198 days

Rita Süssmuth	-	Germany	Bundestag	25 November 1988	26 October 1998	9 years, 335 days

Betty Boothroyd	-	United Kingdom	House of Commons	27 April 1992	23 October 2000	8 years, 179 days

Gret Haller	-	Switzerland	National Council	28 November 1993	28 November 1994	1 year, 0 days

Takako Doi	-	Japan	House of Representatives	6 August 1993	27 September 1996	3 years, 52 days

Bridgett Harris	-	Antigua and Barbuda	House of Representatives	1994	29 March 2004	10 years, 88 days

Irene Pivetti	-	Italy	Chamber of Deputies	16 April 1994	8 May 1996	2 years, 22 days

Frene Ginwala	-	South Africa	National Assembly	9 May 1994	23 April 2004	9 years, 350 days

Judith Stamm	-	Switzerland	National Council	1996	1997	1 year, 0 days

Violet Nielson	-	Jamaica	House of Representatives	1997	2003	6 years, 0 days

Rome Italia Johnson	-	Bahamas	House of Assembly	9 April 1997	22 May 2002	5 years, 43 days

Sylvia Flores	-	Belize	House of Representatives	1998	2001	3 years, 0 days

Trix Heberlein	-	Switzerland	National Council	1998	1999	1 year, 0 days

Jeltje van Nieuwenhoven	-	Netherlands	Tweede Kamer	20 May 1998	16 May 2002	3 years, 361 days

Ntlhoi Motsamai	-	Lesotho	National Assembly	1999	2012	13 years, 0 days

Rafaela Alburquerque	-	Dominican Republic	Chamber of Deputies	16 August 1999	16 August 2003	4 years, 0 days

Nancy Patricia Gutiérrez	-	Colombia	Chamber of Representatives	20 July 1999	20 July 2000	1 year, 0 days

Luisa Fernanda Rudi Ubeda	-	Spain	Congress of Deputies	5 April 2000	8 April 2004	4 years, 3 days

Elizabeth Zabaneh	-	Belize	House of Representatives	2001	2008	7 years, 0 days

Liliane Maury Pasquier	-	Switzerland	National Council	28 November 2001	28 November 2002	1 year, 0 days

Adriana Muñoz D'Albora	-	Chile	Chamber of Deputies	14 March 2002	18 March 2003	1 year, 4 days

Isabel Allende	-	Chile	Chamber of Deputies	18 March 2003	16 March 2004	364 days

Giselle Isaac-Arindell	-	Antigua and Barbuda	House of Representatives	29 March 2004	June 2014	10 years, 64 days

Baleka Mbete	-	South Africa	National Assembly	23 April 2004	25 September 2008	4 years, 155 days

Zulema Jattin Corrales	-	Colombia	Chamber of Representatives	20 July 2004	20 July 2005	1 year, 0 days

Nora Castro	-	Uruguay	Chamber of Deputies	1 March 2005	1 March 2006	1 year, 0 days

Thérèse Meyer	-	Switzerland	National Council	8 March 2005	28 November 2005	265 days

Barbara Prammer	-	Austria	National Council	30 October 2006	2 August 2014	7 years, 276 days

Christine Egerszegi	-	Switzerland	National Council	28 November 2006	28 November 2007	1 year, 0 days

Gerdi Verbeet	-	Netherlands	Tweede Kamer	6 December 2006	20 September 2012	5 years, 289 days

Nancy Pelosi	-	United States	House of Representatives	4 January 2007	3 January 2011	3 years, 364 days

Sarah Flood-Beaubrun	-	Saint Lucia	House of Assembly	9 January 2007	September 2008	1 year, 236 days

Patricia Etteh	-	Nigeria	House of Representatives	6 June 2007	30 October 2007	146 days

Diloram Tashmukhamedova	-	Uzbekistan	Legislative Chamber	23 January 2008	12 January 2015	6 years, 354 days

Fahmida Mirza	-	Pakistan	National Assembly	19 March 2008	3 June 2013	5 years, 76 days

Rosemary Husbands-Mathurin	-	Saint Lucia	House of Assembly	September 2008	6 January 2012	3 years, 127 days

Gwen Mahlangu-Nkabinde	-	South Africa	National Assembly	25 September 2008	6 May 2009	223 days

Rose Mukantabana	-	Rwanda	Chamber of Deputies	6 October 2008	3 October 2013	4 years, 362 days

Chiara Simoneschi-Cortesi	-	Switzerland	National Council	28 November 2008	28 November 2009	1 year, 0 days

Roberta Anastase	-	Romania	Chamber of Deputies	19 December 2008	3 July 2012	3 years, 197 days

Meira Kumar	-	India	Lok Sabha	4 June 2009	4 June 2014	5 years, 0 days

Ivonne Passada	-	Uruguay	Chamber of Deputies	1 March 2010	1 March 2011	1 year, 0 days

Alejandra Sepúlveda Orbenes	-	Chile	Chamber of Deputies	11 March 2010	15 March 2011	1 year, 4 days

Miroslava Němcová	-	Czech Republic	Chamber of Deputies	1 May 2010	28 August 2013	3 years, 119 days

Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert	-	Jamaica	House of Representatives	13 July 2011	12 December 2011	152 days

Ewa Kopacz	-	Poland	Sejm	8 November 2011	22 September 2014	2 years, 318 days

Betty Asunta Tejada Soruco	-	Bolivia	Chamber of Deputies	24 July 2012	25 January 2015	2 years, 185 days

Anouchka van Miltenburg	-	Netherlands	Tweede Kamer	25 September 2012	12 December 2015	3 years, 78 days

Anna Burke	-	Australia	House of Representatives	9 October 2012	12 November 2013	1 year, 34 days

Maya Graf	-	Switzerland	National Council	28 November 2012	28 November 2013	1 year, 0 days

Laura Boldrini	-	Italy	Chamber of Deputies	16 March 2013	22 March 2018	5 years, 6 days

Donatille Mukabalisa	-	Rwanda	Chamber of Deputies	5 October 2013	Incumbent	5 years, 112 days

Bronwyn Bishop	-	Australia	House of Representatives	12 November 2013	2 August 2015	1 year, 263 days

Baleka Mbete	-	South Africa	National Assembly	21 May 2014	Incumbent	4 years, 249 days

Sumitra Mahajan	-	India	Lok Sabha	5 June 2014	Incumbent	4 years, 234 days

Doris Bures	-	Austria	National Council	2 September 2014	9 November 2017	3 years, 68 days

Gabriela Viaña	-	Bolivia	Chamber of Deputies	25 January 2015	Incumbent	4 years, 0 days

Ntlhoi Motsamai	-	Lesotho	National Assembly	10 March 2015	12 June 2017	2 years, 94 days

Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska	-	Poland	Sejm	25 June 2015	11 November 2015	139 days

Borjana Krišto	-	Bosnia and Herzegovina	House of Representatives	9 August 2015	8 April 2016	243 days

Bridgit Annisette-George	-	Trinidad and Tobago	House of Representatives	23 September 2015	Incumbent	3 years, 124 days

Christa Markwalder	-	Switzerland	National Council	28 November 2015	28 November 2016	1 year, 0 days

Khadija Arib	-	Netherlands	Tweede Kamer	13 December 2015	Incumbent	3 years, 43 days

Leonne Theodore-John	-	Saint Lucia	House of Assembly	12 July 2016	Incumbent	2 years, 197 days

Ana Pastor Julián	-	Spain	Congress of Deputies	19 July 2016	Incumbent	2 years, 190 days

Lucía Medina	-	Dominican Republic	Chamber of Deputies	16 August 2016	16 August 2017	1 year, 0 days

Laura Tucker Longsworth	-	Belize	House of Representatives	13 January 2017	Incumbent	2 years, 12 days

Guadeloupe Murguía Gutiérrez	-	Mexico	Chamber of Deputies	1 March 2017	7 September 2017	190 days

Borjana Krišto	-	Bosnia and Herzegovina	House of Representatives	9 August 2017	8 April 2018	242 days

Elisabeth Köstinger	-	Austria	National Council	9 November 2017	18 December 2017	39 days

Maya Fernández Allende	-	Chile	Chamber of Deputies	11 March 2018	Incumbent	320 days

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo	-	Philippines	House of Representatives	23 July 2018	Incumbent	186 days

Borjana Krišto	-	Bosnia and Herzegovina	House of Representatives	6 December 2018	Incumbent	50 days

Nancy Pelosi	-	United States	House of Representatives	3 January 2019	Incumbent	22 days

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Takako Doi was the female Lower House Speaker in Japan.

final_sentence: Takako Doi was the female Lower House Speaker in Japan.