Anne Makinda | |
Office: | 6th Speaker of the National Assembly[1] |
Term Start: | 10 November 2010 |
Term End: | 16 November 2015 |
Deputy: | Job Ndugai |
Predecessor: | Samuel Sitta |
Successor: | Job Ndugai |
Office2: | Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly |
Term Start2: | December 2005 |
Term End2: | July 2010 |
Successor2: | Job Ndugai |
Term Start3: | October 1995 |
Term End3: | July 2015 |
Constituency3: | Njombe South |
Term Start4: | 1975 |
Term End4: | 1995 |
Appointer4: | Nyerere and Mwinyi |
Constituency4: | None (Nominated MP) |
Birth Date: | 26 July 1949 |
Birth Place: | Njombe, Iringa, Tanganyika |
Nationality: | Tanzanian |
Party: | CCM |
Branch: | National Service |
Military Blank1: | Military camp |
Military Data1: | Mafinga and Oljoro |
Military Blank2: | Duration |
Military Data2: | 1 year |
Anne Semamba Makinda (born 26 July 1949) is a Tanzanian politician and the first female Speaker of the National Assembly of Tanzania, in office from 2010 to 2015.[2] She was the last Chairman and the first President of UNICEF at the international level from 1993 to 1994.[3]
Her father was a regional commissioner who served under the Nyerere administration.[4] She was educated at Uwemba Primary School in Njombe, Masasi Girls' Secondary School in Mtwara and Kilakala Girls' High School in Morogoro.
She then pursued an accountancy course at the Institute of Development and Management (present day Mzumbe University) graduating with an advanced diploma.[2]
She was nominated to the parliament in 1975.