List of elected and appointed female deputy heads of state explained

See also: List of elected and appointed female deputy heads of government.

This is a list of women who have been elected or appointed deputy head of state of their respective countries. This list does not include female deputy heads of government who are not concurrently deputy head of state, such as deputy prime ministers.

List of female deputy heads of state

Nameclass=unsortableImageCountryContinentOfficeMandate startMandate endTerm length
Soong Ching-lingAsiaDeputy Chairperson
Maria Paretti RomaniaEuropeVice President
Constanța Crăciun RomaniaEuropeVice President
Isabel Perón ArgentinaSouth AmericaVice President
Maria Ciocan[1] [2] RomaniaEuropeVice President
Anahita Ratebzad AfghanistanAsiaDeputy Chairwoman of the Revolutionary Council
Mine Guri AlbaniaEuropeVice President
Viola Burnham GuyanaSouth AmericaCo-Vice President
Maria Ghițulică RomaniaEuropeVice President
Victoria Garrón Orozco Costa RicaNorth AmericaSecond Vice President
Nguyễn Thị ĐịnhAsiaVice President
Blaga Dimitrova BulgariaEuropeVice President
Nguyễn Thị BìnhAsiaVice President
Specioza Kazibwe UgandaAfricaVice President
Guadalupe Jerezano Mejía HondurasNorth AmericaThird Vice President
Rebeca Grynspan Costa RicaNorth AmericaSecond Vice President
Julia Mena NicaraguaNorth AmericaVice President
Rosalía Arteaga EcuadorSouth AmericaVice President
Janet Jagan GuyanaSouth AmericaPrime Minister and First Vice President
Isatou Njie-SaidyAfricaVice President
Masoumeh EbtekarAsiaVice President
Gladys Caballero de Arevalo HondurasNorth AmericaSecond Vice President
Astrid Fischel Volio Costa RicaNorth AmericaFirst Vice President
Elizabeth Odio Benito Costa RicaNorth AmericaSecond Vice President
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo PhilippinesAsiaVice President[3]
Megawati Sukarnoputri IndonesiaAsiaVice President[4]
Annette Lu (Republic of China)AsiaVice President
Milagros Ortiz Bosch Dominican RepublicNorth AmericaVice President
Adina BastidasSouth AmericaVice President
Sandra Pierantozzi PalauOceaniaVice President
Sima Samar AfghanistanAsiaVice Chairwoman of Interim Administration
Armida Villela de López Contreras HondurasNorth AmericaSecond Vice President
Lineth Saborío Chaverri Costa RicaNorth AmericaFirst Vice President
Trương Mỹ HoaAsiaVice President
Teima Onorio KiribatiOceaniaVice President
Ana Vilma de Escobar El SalvadorNorth AmericaVice President
Joice Mujuru ZimbabweAfricaVice President
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka South AfricaAfricaDeputy President
Fatemeh JavadiAsiaVice President
Alice Nzomukunda BurundiAfricaVice President
Najah al-AttarAsiaVice PresidentIncumbent
Dalia Itzik IsraelAsiaDesignated Acting President[5]
Laura Chinchilla Costa RicaNorth AmericaFirst Vice President
Lourdes Mendoza PeruSouth AmericaSecond Vice President
Marina Barampama BurundiAfricaVice President
Nguyễn Thị DoanAsiaVice President
Baleka Mbete South AfricaAfricaDeputy President
Joyce Banda MalawiAfricaVice President
Fatemeh BodaghiAsiaVice President
Farahnaz TorkestaniAsiaVice President
Maryam MojtahedzadehAsiaVice President
Nasrin SoltankhahAsiaVice President
María Antonieta de Bográn HondurasNorth AmericaFirst Vice President
Hannelore Kraft GermanyEuropePresident of the Bundesrat[6]
Monique Ohsan Bellepeau MauritiusAfricaVice President
Assunção Esteves PortugalEuropePresident of Parliament[7]
Susan Denham IrelandEuropeChief Justice[8]
Marisol Espinoza PeruSouth AmericaFirst Vice President
Meherzia Labidi Maïza TunisiaAfricaFirst Vice-president of the
Constituent Assembly of Tunisia
Roxana Baldetti GuatemalaNorth AmericaVice President
Han Myeong-sookAsiaPrime Minister
Margarita Popova BulgariaEuropeVice President
Margarita Cedeño Dominican RepublicNorth AmericaVice President[9]
Suheir Atassi Syrian Arab Republic (opposition)AsiaVice President of the National Coalition
Gladys María Bejerano Portela CubaNorth AmericaVice President
Mercedes López Acea CubaNorth AmericaVice President
Elham AminzadehAsiaVice President
Shahindokht MolaverdiAsiaVice President
Ana Rossana Guevara Pinto HondurasNorth AmericaSecond Vice President
Lorena Enriqueta Herrera Estevez HondurasNorth AmericaThird Vice President
Ana Helena Chacón Costa RicaNorth AmericaSecond Vice President
Isabel Saint Malo PanamaNorth AmericaVice President
Noura al-Ameer Syrian Arab Republic (opposition)AsiaVice President of the National Coalition
Inonge Wina ZambiaAfricaVice President
Samia Suluhu HassanAfricaVice President
Gabriela Michetti ArgentinaSouth AmericaVice President
Samira al-Masalma Syrian Arab Republic (opposition)AsiaVice President of the National Coalition
Đặng Thị Ngọc ThịnhAsiaVice President
Leni Robredo PhilippinesAsiaVice President
Mercedes Aráoz PeruSouth AmericaSecond Vice President
First Vice President
Malu Dreyer GermanyEuropePresident of the Bundesrat[10]
Zahra AhmadipourAsiaVice President
Rosario Murillo NicaraguaNorth AmericaVice PresidentIncumbent[11]
Iliana Iotova BulgariaEuropeVice PresidentIncumbent
Mehriban Aliyeva AzerbaijanAsiaVice PresidentIncumbent[12]
Fatoumata TambajangAfricaVice President[13]
Salwa Aksoy Syrian Arab Republic (opposition)AsiaVice President of the National Coalition
Laya JonaidiAsiaVice President
Lucía Topolansky UruguaySouth AmericaVice President[14]
María Alejandra Vicuña EcuadorSouth AmericaVice President
Jewel Taylor LiberiaAfricaVice President
Olga Margarita Alvarado Rodríguez HondurasNorth AmericaSecond Vice President
María Antonia Rivera Rosales HondurasNorth AmericaThird Vice President
Elisabetta Casellati ItalyEuropePresident of the Senate[15]
Inés María Chapman Waugh CubaNorth AmericaVice President
Beatriz Johnson Urrutia CubaNorth AmericaVice President
Dima Moussa Syrian Arab Republic (opposition)AsiaVice President of the National CoalitionIncumbent
Epsy Campbell Barr Costa RicaNorth AmericaFirst Vice President
Alicia Pucheta ParaguaySouth AmericaVice President
Delcy RodríguezSouth AmericaVice PresidentIncumbent
Marta Lucía Ramírez ColombiaSouth AmericaVice President
Olga Sánchez Cordero MexicoNorth AmericaSecretary of the Interior
Isatou TourayAfricaVice President
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner ArgentinaSouth AmericaVice President [16]
Rebecca Nyandeng De MabiorAfricaFourth Vice PresidentIncumbent
Beatriz Argimón UruguaySouth AmericaVice PresidentIncumbent
María Alejandra Muñoz EcuadorSouth AmericaVice President
Raquel Peña de Antuña Dominican RepublicNorth AmericaVice PresidentIncumbent
Kamala Harris United StatesNorth AmericaVice PresidentIncumbent
Uduch Sengebau Senior PalauOceaniaVice PresidentIncumbent
Pany YathotouAsiaVice PresidentIncumbent
Võ Thị Ánh XuânAsiaVice PresidentIncumbent
Mariam Chabi Talata BeninAfricaVice PresidentIncumbent
Jessica Alupo UgandaAfricaVice PresidentIncumbent
Dina Boluarte PeruSouth AmericaFirst Vice President
Mutale Nalumango ZambiaAfricaVice PresidentIncumbent
Ensieh KhazaliAsiaVice PresidentIncumbent
Doris Gutiérrez HondurasNorth AmericaSecond Vice PresidentIncumbent
Izkia Siches ChileSouth AmericaMinister of the Interior and Public Security
Mary Munive Costa RicaNorth AmericaSecond Vice PresidentIncumbent
Sara Duterte PhilippinesAsiaVice PresidentIncumbent
Francia Márquez ColombiaSouth AmericaVice PresidentIncumbent
Carolina Tohá ChileSouth AmericaMinister of the Interior and Public SecurityIncumbent
Esperança da Costa AngolaAfricaVice PresidentIncumbent
Rose Christiane Raponda GabonAfricaVice President
Luisa María Alcalde Luján MexicoNorth AmericaSecretary of the InteriorIncumbent
Manuela Schwesig GermanyEuropePresident of the Bundesrat[17] Incumbent
Verónica Abad Rojas EcuadorSouth AmericaVice PresidentIncumbent
Victoria Villarruel ArgentinaSouth AmericaVice PresidentIncumbent
Karin Herrera GuatemalaNorth AmericaVice PresidentIncumbent
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah NamibiaAfricaVice PresidentIncumbent
Hsiao Bi-khim (Republic of China)AsiaVice PresidentIncumbent

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Notes and References

  1. Book: The International year book and statesmen's who's who . 33rd . Burke's Peerage . 1985 . 978-0-611-00680-6 . 407.
  2. Book: The motherless state: women's political leadership and American democracy . limited . 116 . McDonagh, Eileen. Eileen McDonagh . 2009 . University of Chicago Press . 978-0-226-51455-0.
  3. Assumed presidency after the reisgnation of Joseph Estrada in 2001
  4. Assumed presidency after the removal of her predecessor
  5. An ex officio position held by the Speaker of the Knesset to act for the President of Israel
  6. According to Article 57 of the German Basic Law, the President of the Bundesrat acts for the President when the latter is unavailable.
  7. According to Article 132 of the Portuguese Constitution, the President of Parliament acts for the President of the Republic when the latter is unavailable.
  8. According to 1937 Constitution of Ireland, Chief Justice included in the Presidential Commission which is the collective vice presidency of the Republic of Ireland
  9. Previously served as First Lady of the Dominican Republic from 2004-2012.
  10. According to Article 57 of the German Basic Law, the President of the Bundesrat acts for the President when the latter is unavailable.
  11. Currently serving as First Lady of Nicaragua since 2007
  12. Currently serving as First Lady of Azerbaijan since 2003
  13. Acting until 8 September 2017
  14. Previously served as First Lady of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015
  15. According to Article 86 of the Italian Constitution, the President of the Senate acts for the President when the latter is unavailable.
  16. Previously served as First Lady of Argentina from 2003-2007 and President of Argentina from 2007-2015.
  17. According to Article 57 of the German Basic Law, the President of the Bundesrat acts for the President when the latter is unavailable.

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