List of female interior ministers explained

An interior ministry (sometimes ministry of internal affairs or ministry of home affairs) is a government ministry typically responsible for policing, emergency management, national security, civil defence, supervision of local governments, conduct of elections, public administration and immigration matters. The ministry is often headed by a minister of the interior or a minister of home affairs.

In some countries, police and security are controlled by a separated ministry. For example, Greece's Ministry of Public Order and Citizen Protection and Minister of Public Security of Israel. Other countries have also different tasks being entitled to the namely Ministry of the Interior. Not always reflects the naming of the ministry the portfolio behind. For example, Ethiopia's Ministry of Peace has the classical portfolio of an interior ministry but is not named so.

This list contains female ministers that had served or currently serving as Minister of Interior, which in charge, mainly of local governments, elections, and public administrations (justice, security, and policing also included if still managed under same ministry).

Sovereign states

Nameclass=unsortableImageCountryContinentMandate startMandate endTerm length
Qian Ying ChinaAsia
Mabel Moir James DominicaNorth America
Clara Boscaglia San MarinoEurope
Inger Louise Valle NorwayEurope
Kebatshabile Disele BotswanaAfrica
Harriet Andreassen NorwayEurope
Britta Schall Holberg DenmarkEurope
Kaisa Raatikainen FinlandEurope
Rita Sinon SeychellesAfrica
Margaret Austin New ZealandOceania
Ien Dales NetherlandsEurope
Lagle Parek EstoniaEurope
Birte Weiss DenmarkEurope
Ruth Dreifuss SwitzerlandEurope
Dieuwke de Graaff-Nauta NetherlandsEurope
Meral Akşener TurkeyAsia
Laura Chinchilla Costa RicaNorth America
Yeh Chin-fongAsia
Francisca PereiraAfrica
Ragnhild Queseth Haarstad NorwayEurope
Ana Lucía Armijos EcuadorSouth America
Rosa Russo Iervolino ItalyEurope
Vasso Papandreou GreeceEurope
Dosta DimovskaEurope
Francesca Michelotti San MarinoEurope
Karen Jespersen DenmarkEurope
Sylvia Brustad NorwayEurope
Chang Po-yaAsia
Urmila Joella-Sewnundun SurinameNorth America
Vera Sofia Rubi HondurasNorth America
Mia Mottley BarbadosNorth America
Erna Solberg NorwayEurope
Sarah Flood-Beaubrun Saint LuciaNorth America
Mónika Lamperth HungaryEurope
Emma Rossi San MarinoEurope
Cristina Fontes Lima Cape VerdeAfrica
Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula South AfricaAfrica
Liese Prokop AustriaEurope
Rosalia Nghidinwa NamibiaAfrica
Anne McLellan CanadaAfrica
Adriana Delpiano ChileSouth America
Gail Teixeira GuyanaSouth America
Anna Kachikho MalawiAfrica
Åslaug Haga NorwayEurope
Alicia MuñozSouth America
Olga Gólcher PanamaNorth America
Valeria Ciavatta San MarinoEurope
Pilar Mazzetti PeruSouth America
Gordana JankuloskaEurope
Ana Isabel Morales NicaraguaNorth America
Guusje ter Horst NetherlandsEurope
Daisy Tourné UruguaySouth America
Adela de Torrebiarte GuatemalaNorth America
Anne Holmlund FinlandEurope
Michèle Alliot-Marie FranceEurope
Jacqui Smith United KingdomEurope
Ma Wen ChinaAsia
Magnhild Meltveit Kleppa NorwayEurope
Mirjana Orašanin SerbiaEurope
Janina del Vecchio Ugalde Costa RicaNorth America
Maria Fekter AustriaEurope
Katarina Kresal SloveniaEurope
Sahara Khatun BangladeshAsia
Janet Napolitano United StatesNorth America
Sandra Pierantozzi PalauOceania
Mercedes Cabanillas PeruSouth America
Linda Abu Meri LatviaEurope
Karen Ellemann DenmarkEurope
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma South AfricaAfrica
Annemie Turtelboom BelgiumEurope
Cécile Manorohanta MadagascarAfrica
Liv Signe Navarsete NorwayEurope
Adja Satú Camará Guinea-BissauAfrica
Roxana Méndez PanamaNorth America
Theresa May United KingdomEurope
Theresa Makoni ZimbabweAfrica
Marisa Morais Cape VerdeAfrica
Johanna Mikl-Leitner AustriaEurope
Päivi Räsänen FinlandEurope
Pelenike Isaia TuvaluOceania
Margrethe Vestager DenmarkEurope
Annamaria Cancellieri ItalyEurope
Joëlle Milquet BelgiumEurope
Amy Adams New ZealandOceania
Liesbeth Spies NetherlandsEurope
Eleni Mavrou CyprusEurope
Eka Zguladze GeorgiaEurope
Naledi Pandor South AfricaAfrica
Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana NamibiaAfrica
Gülsün YücelEurope
Petya Parvanova BulgariaEurope
Hanna Birna Kristjánsdóttir IcelandEurope
Charmaine Scotty NauruOceania
Tsandzile DlaminiAfrica
Sheikh Hasina BangladeshAsiaIncumbent
Sanae Takaichi JapanAsia
Vesna Györkös Žnidar SloveniaEurope
Teresa Piotrowska PolandEurope
Anabela Rodrigues PortugalEurope
Ólöf Nordal IcelandEurope
Rumyana Bachvarova BulgariaEurope
Karen Ellemann DenmarkEurope
Rose Akol UgandaAfricaIncumbent
Constança Urbano de Sousa PortugalEurope
Daisy Alik-Momotaro Marshall IslandsOceania
Amenta Matthew Marshall IslandsOceania
Paula Risikko FinlandEurope
Amber Rudd United KingdomEurope
Grace Chiumia MalawiAfrica
Mitcy Larue SeychellesAfricaIncumbent
Carmen Daniela Dan RomaniaEurope
María Amelia Coronel NicaraguaNorth AmericaIncumbent
Dominique Hasler LiechtensteinEurope
Hlengiwe Mkhize South AfricaAfrica
Elaine Duke United StatesNorth America
Ayanda Dlodlo South AfricaAfrica
Cecilia Chazama MalawiAfrica
Kajsa Ollongren NetherlandsEurope
Tracey Martin New ZealandOceania6 November 2020
Kirstjen Nielsen United StatesNorth America
ʻAkosita Lavulavu TongaOceania
Denisa Saková SlovakiaEurope
Losaline Ma'asi TongaOceania
Nancy Patricia Gutiérrez ColombiaSouth America
María Paula Romo EcuadorSouth America
Muferiat Kamil EthiopiaAfrica
Lindiwe DlaminiAfricaIncumbent
Katri Raik EstoniaEurope
Olga Sánchez Cordero MexicoNorth America
Taina Bofferding LuxembourgEurope
Ingvil Smines Tybring-Gjedde NorwayEurope
Raya Haffar El Hassan LebanonAsia
Elżbieta Witek PolandEurope
Maria Ohisalo FinlandEurope
Astrid Krag DenmarkEurope
Priti Patel United KingdomEurope
Rita Tamašunienė LithuaniaEurope
Luciana Lamorgese ItalyEurope
Sanae Takaichi JapanAsia
Alicia Arango ColombiaSouth America
Janaina Tewaney PanamaNorth America
Annelies Verlinden BelgiumEuropeIncumbent
Jan Tinetti New ZealandOceania
Agnė Bilotaitė LithuaniaEuropeIncumbent
Sabine Monauni LiechtensteinEuropeIncumbent
Karen Andrews AustraliaOceania
Ayelet Shaked IsraelAsia
Alexandra Vela EcuadorSouth America
Ana RevencoEurope
Arsénia Massingue MozambiqueAfricaIncumbent
Krista Mikkonen FinlandEurope
Nancy Faeser GermanyEuropeIncumbent
Hanke Bruins Slot NetherlandsEurope
Izkia Siches ChileAmerica
Tatjana Bobnar SloveniaEurope14 December 2022
Clare O'Neil AustraliaOceaniaIncumbent
Suella Braverman United KingdomEurope
Carolina Tohá ChileAmericaIncumbent
Sanja Ajanovič Hovnik
Minister pro tempore
SloveniaEurope
Barbara Edmonds New ZealandOceania
Calliope Spanou GreeceEurope
Ester Molné Soldevila AndorraEuropeIncumbent
Luisa María Alcalde Luján MexicoNorth AmericaIncumbent
Mari Rantanen FinlandEuropeIncumbent
Niki Kerameus GreeceEuropeIncumbent
Brooke van Velden New ZealandOceaniaIncumbent
Élisabeth Baume-Schneider SwitzerlandEuropeIncumbent
Margarida Blasco PortugalEuropeIncumbent
Liu Shyh-fangAsiaIncumbent
Judith Uitermark NetherlandsEuropeIncumbent
Yvette Cooper United KingdomEuropeIncumbent

Constituent and dependent territories

Nameclass=unsortableImageCountryContinentMandate startMandate endTerm length
Yevgenia BoschEurope30 December 19171 March 191861 days
Paula Cox BermudaAmerica
Cathy JamiesonEurope
Lilian Boyce Turks and Caicos IslandsAmerica
Karen Delancy Turks and Caicos IslandsAmerica
Porsha Stubbs-Smith Turks and Caicos IslandsAmerica
Amanda Missick Turks and Caicos IslandsAmerica
Claire SugdenEurope
Tara Rivers Cayman IslandsAmericaIncumbent
Rose Toki-Brown
Minister of Internal Affairs
Cook IslandsOceaniaIncumbent

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