Rome Italia Johnson | |
Office: | Speaker of the House of Assembly of the Bahamas |
Primeminister: | Hubert Ingraham |
Term Start: | 9 April 1997 |
Term End: | 22 May 2002 |
Predecessor: | Vernon Symonette |
Successor: | Oswald Ingraham |
Birth Date: | 1 August 1954 |
Party: | Free National Movement |
Rome Italia Johnson is a Bahamian former insurance executive who served as the Speaker of the Bahamas House of Assembly from April 1997 until May 2002.[1] Also called Speaker, not President, she was the first female to serve in that position.[2]
She was born 1 August 1954 in Nassau. She went to University of Miami and Georgetown University in Washington.[3] From 1977 until 1992 she worked in the insurance industry and she was the first female President of the Life Underwriters Association of the Bahamas. She is a member of Free National Movement.