List of female constituent and dependent territory leaders
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This is a list of women who had been appointed as leaders of constituent states and dependent territories. This list also separates between the dependent territory leaders and the autonomous area leaders.
Female chief executives of a constituent country or state[edit]
- Italics denotes an acting chief executive
Female heads of government of a constituent country or state[edit]
| Name | Portrait | Administrative division | Office | Mandate start | Mandate end | Term length | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yevgenia Bosch |  |  Ukrainian PRS[a] | Chairwoman of the People's Secretariat | 30 December 1917 | 1 March 1918 | 61 days |  Russian SFSR |
| Nellie Ross |  |  Wyoming | Governor | 5 January 1925 | 3 January 1927 | 1 year, 363 days |  United States |
| Miriam A. Ferguson |  |  Texas | Governor | 20 January 1925 | 17 January 1927 | 1 year, 362 days | United States |
| 17 January 1933 | 15 January 1935 | 1 year, 363 days | |||||
| Kalima Amankulova |  |  Kyrgyz SSR | Acting chairwoman of the Supreme Soviet Acting head of state | 15 May 1938 | 18 July 1938 | 64 days |  Soviet Union |
| Nadezhda Grekova | ._%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%8F_%D0%93%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%BA_(%D0%93%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0)_(1940).jpg) |  Byelorussian SSR | Chairwoman of the Supreme Soviet Head of state | 25 July 1938 | 12 March 1949 | 10 years, 230 days | Soviet Union |
| Louise Schroeder |  |  Berlin | Governing Mayor (under Allied supervision) | 11 June 1947 | 7 December 1948 | 1 year, 179 days |  Germany |
| Sucheta Kripalani |  |  Uttar Pradesh | Chief Minister | 2 October 1963 | 13 March 1967 | 3 years, 162 days | India |
| Lurleen Wallace |  Alabama | Governor | 16 January 1967 | 7 May 1968 (died in office) | 1 year, 112 days |  United States | |
| Savka Dabčević-Kučar |  |  SR Croatia | Chairwoman of the Executive Council (prime minister) | 11 May 1967 | 8 May 1969 | 1 year, 362 days |  SFR Yugoslavia |
| Nandini Satpathy |  | Odisha | Chief Minister | 14 June 1972 | 3 March 1973 | 262 days | India |
| 6 March 1974 | 16 December 1976 | 2 years, 285 days | |||||
| Shashikala Kakodkar |  | Goa | Chief Minister | 12 August 1973 | 27 April 1979 | 5 years, 258 days | India |
| Ella T. Grasso |  |  Connecticut | Governor | 8 January 1975 | 31 December 1980 | 5 years, 358 days | United States |
| Dixy Lee Ray |  |  Washington | Governor | 12 January 1977 | 14 January 1981 | 4 years, 2 days | United States |
| Griselda Álvarez |  |  Colima | Governor | 1 November 1979 | 31 October 1985 | 5 years, 364 days |  Mexico |
| Anwara Taimur |  | Assam | Chief Minister | 6 December 1980 | 30 June 1981 | 206 days | India |
| Anna Nenna D'Antonio |  |  Abruzzo | President | 30 November 1981 | 13 May 1983 | 1 year, 164 days |  Italy |
| Martha Layne Collins |  |  Kentucky | Governor | 13 December 1983 | 8 December 1987 | 3 years, 360 days | United States |
| Maria Liberia Peters | .jpg) |  Netherlands Antilles | Prime Minister | 18 September 1984 | 1 January 1986 | 1 year, 105 days |  Netherlands |
| 17 May 1988 | 25 November 1993 | 5 years, 192 days | |||||
| Madeleine Kunin | .jpg) |  Vermont | Governor | 10 January 1985 | 10 January 1991 | 6 years, 0 days | United States |
| Iolanda Fleming | .jpg) |  Acre | Governor | 14 May 1986 | 15 March 1987 | 305 days |  Brazil |
| Kay A. Orr |  |  Nebraska | Governor | 9 January 1987 | 9 January 1991 | 4 years, 0 days | United States |
| Beatriz Paredes Rangel |  |  Tlaxcala | Governor | 15 January 1987 | 11 April 1992 | 5 years, 87 days | Mexico |
| V. N. Janaki | Tamil Nadu | Chief Minister | 7 January 1988 | 30 January 1988 | 23 days | India | |
| Rose Mofford |  |  Arizona | Governor | 4 April 1988 | 6 March 1991 | 2 years, 336 days | United States |
| Joan Kirner |  |  Victoria | Premier | 10 August 1990 | 6 October 1992 | 2 years, 57 days |  Australia |
| Carmen Lawrence | .png) |  Western Australia | Premier | 12 February 1990 | 16 February 1993 | 3 years, 4 days | Australia |
| Sharon Pratt Kelly |  |  District of Columbia | Mayor | 2 January 1991 | 2 January 1995 | 4 years, 0 days | United States |
| Joan Finney |  Kansas | Governor | 14 January 1991 | 9 January 1995 | 3 years, 360 days | United States | |
| Barbara Roberts |  |  Oregon | Governor | 14 January 1991 | 9 January 1995 | 3 years, 360 days | United States |
| Ann Richards |  | Texas | Governor | 15 January 1991 | 17 January 1995 | 4 years, 2 days | United States |
| Dulce María Sauri Riancho | .jpg) |  Yucatán | Governor | 14 February 1991 | 1 December 1993 | 2 years, 290 days | Mexico |
| Rita Johnston | |  British Columbia | Premier | 2 April 1991 | 5 November 1991 | 217 days |  Canada |
| J. Jayalalithaa |  | Tamil Nadu | Chief Minister | 24 June 1991 | 12 May 1996 | 4 years, 323 days | India |
| 14 May 2001 | 21 September 2001 | 130 days | |||||
| 2 March 2002 | 12 May 2006 | 4 years, 71 days | |||||
| 16 May 2011 | 27 September 2014 | 3 years, 134 days | |||||
| 23 May 2015 | 5 December 2016 (died in office) | 1 year, 196 days | |||||
| Fiorella Ghilardotti |  Lombardia | President | 12 December 1992 | 3 June 1994 | 1 year, 173 days | Italy | |
| Catherine Callbeck | |  Prince Edward Island | Premier | 25 January 1993 | 9 October 1996 | 3 years, 258 days | Canada |
| María Antonia Martínez | |  Murcia | President | 2 May 1993 | 3 July 1995 | 2 years, 62 days |  Spain |
| Laurette Onkelinx |  |  French Community | Minister-President | 6 May 1993 | 13 July 1999 | 6 years, 68 days |  Belgium |
| Heide Simonis |  |  Schleswig-Holstein | Minister-President | 19 May 1993 | 27 April 2005 | 11 years, 343 days |  Germany |
| Suzanne Camelia-Römer | .jpg) | Netherlands Antilles | Prime Minister | 25 November 1993 | 28 December 1993 | 33 days | Netherlands |
| 14 May 1998 | 8 November 1999 | 1 year, 178 days | |||||
| Christine Todd Whitman |  |  New Jersey | Governor | 18 January 1994 | 31 January 2001 | 7 years, 13 days | United States |
| Alessandra Guerra |  Friuli-Venezia Giulia | President | 18 July 1994 | 7 November 1995 | 1 year, 112 days | Italy | |
| Roseana Sarney | .jpg) |  Maranhão | Governor | 1 January 1995 | 5 April 2002 | 7 years, 94 days |  Brazil |
| 17 April 2009 | 10 December 2014 | 5 years, 237 days | |||||
| Mayawati |  | Uttar Pradesh | Chief Minister | 13 June 1995 | 18 October 1995 | 127 days | India |
| 21 March 1997 | 21 September 1997 | 184 days | |||||
| 3 May 2002 | 29 August 2003 | 1 year, 118 days | |||||
| 13 May 2007 | 15 March 2012 | 4 years, 307 days | |||||
| Waltraud Klasnic |  |  Styria | Governor | 23 January 1996 | 25 October 2005 | 9 years, 275 days |  Austria |
| Biljana Plavšić |  |  Republika Srpska | President | 19 July 1996 | 14 November 1998 | 2 years, 118 days |  Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Valentina Bronevich |  |  Koryakia | Administrator | 17 November 1996 | 3 December 2000 | 4 years, 16 days |  Russia |
| Rajinder Kaur Bhattal |  | Punjab | Chief Minister | 21 November 1996 | 12 February 1997 | 83 days | India |
| Jeanne Shaheen | .jpg) |  New Hampshire | Governor | 9 January 1997 | 9 January 2003 | 6 years, 0 days | United States |
| Rabri Devi | .jpg) | Bihar | Chief Minister | 25 July 1997 | 11 February 1999 | 1 year, 201 days | India |
| 9 March 1999 | 2 March 2000 | 359 days | |||||
| 11 March 2000 | 6 March 2005 | 4 years, 360 days | |||||
| Jane Dee Hull |  | Arizona | Governor | 5 September 1997 | 6 January 2003 | 5 years, 123 days | United States |
| Sushma Swaraj |  |  Delhi | Chief Minister | 12 October 1998 | 3 December 1998 | 52 days | India |
| Sheila Dikshit |  | Delhi | Chief Minister | 3 December 1998 | 28 December 2013 | 15 years, 25 days | India |
| Nancy Hollister | .jpg) |  Ohio | Governor | 31 December 1998 | 11 January 1999 | 11 days | United States |
| Margherita Cogo | .jpg) |  Trentino-Alto Adige | President | 11 March 1999 | 14 March 2002 | 3 years, 3 days | Italy |
| Irene Sáez | |  Nueva Esparta | Governor | 20 April 1999 | 8 June 2000 | 1 year, 49 days |  Venezuela |
| Rosario Robles |  |  Mexico City | Head of government | 29 September 1999 | 4 December 2000 | 1 year, 66 days | Mexico |
| Maria Rita Lorenzetti | .jpg) |  Umbria | President | 15 May 2000 | 16 April 2010 | 9 years, 335 days | Italy |
| Judy Martz |  |  Montana | Governor | 1 January 2001 | 3 January 2005 | 4 years, 2 days | United States |
| Ruth Ann Minner |  |  Delaware | Governor | 3 January 2001 | 20 January 2009 | 8 years, 17 days | United States |
| Jane Swift |  |  Massachusetts | Governor | 10 April 2001 | 2 January 2003 | 1 year, 267 days | United States |
| Alicia Lemme |  |  San Luis | Governor | 23 December 2001 | 10 December 2003 | 1 year, 352 days |  Argentina |
| Dalva Figueiredo |  |  Amapá | Governor | 5 April 2002 | 1 January 2003 | 271 days | Brazil |
| Benedita da Silva |  |  Rio de Janeiro | Governor | 6 April 2002 | 1 January 2003 | 270 days | Brazil |
| Linda Lingle |  |  Hawaii | Governor | 2 December 2002 | 6 December 2010 | 8 years, 4 days | United States |
| Mercedes Aragonés de Juárez |  |  Santiago del Estero | Governor | 12 December 2002 | 1 April 2004 | 1 year, 111 days | Argentina |
| Nataša Mićić |  |  Serbia | Acting President | 29 December 2002 | 27 January 2004 | 1 year, 29 days |  FR Yugoslavia/ Serbia and Montenegro |
| Jennifer Granholm | .jpg) |  Michigan | Governor | 1 January 2003 | 1 January 2011 | 8 years, 0 days | United States |
| Rosângela Garotinho |  | Rio de Janeiro | Governor | 1 January 2003 | 1 January 2007 | 4 years, 0 days | Brazil |
| Wilma de Faria |  |  Rio Grande do Norte | Governor | 1 January 2003 | 31 March 2010 | 7 years, 89 days | Brazil |
| Janet Napolitano |  | Arizona | Governor | 6 January 2003 | 21 January 2009 | 6 years, 15 days | United States |
| Kathleen Sebelius |  | Kansas | Governor | 13 January 2003 | 28 April 2009 | 6 years, 105 days | United States |
| Mirna Louisa-Godett | | Netherlands Antilles | Prime Minister | 11 August 2003 | 3 June 2004 | 297 days | Netherlands |
| Valentina Matviyenko | _(cropped).jpg) |  Saint Petersburg | Governor | 15 October 2003 | 22 August 2011 | 7 years, 311 days | Russia |
| Olene Walker |  |  Utah | Governor | 5 November 2003 | 3 January 2005 | 1 year, 59 days | United States |
| Esperanza Aguirre | _(cropped).jpg) |  Community of Madrid | President | 20 November 2003 | 17 September 2012 | 8 years, 302 days | Spain |
| Uma Bharti |  | Madhya Pradesh | Chief Minister | 8 December 2003 | 23 August 2004 | 259 days | India |
| Vasundhara Raje |  | Rajasthan | Chief Minister | 8 December 2003 | 18 December 2008 | 5 years, 10 days | India |
| 8 December 2013 | 17 December 2018 | 5 years, 9 days | |||||
| Kathleen Blanco |  |  Louisiana | Governor | 12 January 2004 | 14 January 2008 | 4 years, 2 days | United States |
| Gabi Burgstaller |  |  Salzburg | Governor | 28 April 2004 | 19 June 2013 | 9 years, 52 days | Austria |
| Jodi Rell |  | Connecticut | Governor | 1 July 2004 | 5 January 2011 | 6 years, 188 days | United States |
| Marie Arena |  | French Community | Minister-President | 19 July 2004 | 20 March 2008 | 3 years, 245 days | Belgium |
| Amalia García |  |  Zacatecas | Governor | 12 September 2004 | 11 September 2010 | 5 years, 364 days | Mexico |
| Maria Bolshakova | |  Ulyanovsk Oblast | Acting Governor | 22 November 2004 | 6 January 2005 | 45 days | Russia |
| Christine Gregoire |  | Washington | Governor | 12 January 2005 | 16 January 2013 | 8 years, 4 days | United States |
| Mercedes Bresso | .jpg) |  Piemonte | President | 27 April 2005 | 9 April 2010 | 4 Years, 344 days | Italy |
| Emily de Jongh-Elhage |  | Netherlands Antilles | Prime Minister | 26 March 2006 | 10 October 2010 | 4 years, 198 days | Netherlands |
| Maria de Lourdes Abadia |  |  Brazilian Federal District | Governor | 31 March 2006 | 1 January 2007 | 276 days | Brazil |
| Sarah Palin |  |  Alaska | Governor | 4 December 2006 | 26 July 2009 | 2 years, 143 days | United States |
| Ana Julia Carepa |  |  Pará | Governor | 1 January 2007 | 1 January 2011 | 4 years, 0 days | Brazil |
| Yeda Crusius |  |  Rio Grande do Sul | Governor | 1 January 2007 | 1 January 2011 | 4 years, 0 days | Brazil |
| Borjana Krišto | _(1)_(cropped).jpg) |  Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina | President | 22 February 2007 | 17 March 2011 | 4 years, 23 days | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Ivonne Ortega Pacheco |  | Yucatán | Governor | 1 August 2007 | 30 September 2012 | 5 years, 60 days | Mexico |
| Anna Bligh |  |  Queensland | Premier | 13 September 2007 | 26 March 2012 | 4 years, 195 days | Australia |
| Fabiana Ríos | _(cropped).jpg) |  Tierra del Fuego | Governor | 10 December 2007 | 10 December 2015 | 8 years, 0 days | Argentina |
| Stella Lugo |  |  Falcón | Governor | 23 November 2008 | 15 October 2017 | 8 years, 326 days |  Venezuela |
| Bev Perdue |  |  North Carolina | Governor | 10 January 2009 | 5 January 2013 | 3 years, 361 days | United States |
| Jan Brewer |  | Arizona | Governor | 21 January 2009 | 5 January 2015 | 5 years, 349 days | United States |
| Christine Lieberknecht |  |  Thuringia | Minister-President | 30 October 2009 | 5 December 2014 | 5 years, 36 days | Germany |
| Kristina Keneally |  |  New South Wales | Premier | 4 December 2009 | 28 March 2011 | 1 year, 145 days | Australia |
| Arlene Foster |  |  Northern Ireland | Acting First Minister | 11 January 2010 | 3 February 2010 | 23 days | United Kingdom |
| 10 September 2015 | 20 October 2015 | 40 days | |||||
| First Minister | 11 January 2016 | 9 January 2017 | 364 days | ||||
| 11 January 2020 | 14 June 2021 | 1 year, 154 days | |||||
| Natalya Komarova |  |  Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug | Governor | 1 March 2010 | 30 May 2024 | 14 years, 90 days | Russia |
| Catiuscia Marini | .jpg) | Umbria | President | 16 April 2010 | 28 May 2019 | 9 years, 42 days | Italy |
| Renata Polverini |  |  Lazio | President | 16 April 2010 | 12 March 2013 | 2 years, 330 days | Italy |
| Hannelore Kraft |  |  North Rhine-Westphalia | Minister-President | 14 July 2010 | 27 June 2017 | 6 years, 348 days | Germany |
| Sarah Wescot-Williams |  |  Sint Maarten | Prime Minister | 10 October 2010 | 19 December 2014 | 4 years, 70 days | Netherlands |
| Kathy Dunderdale |  |  Newfoundland and Labrador | Premier | 3 December 2010 | 24 January 2014 | 3 years, 52 days | Canada |
| Susana Martinez |  |  New Mexico | Governor | 1 January 2011 | 1 January 2019 | 8 years, 0 days | United States |
| Rosalba Ciarlini |  | Rio Grande do Norte | Governor | 1 January 2011 | 1 January 2015 | 4 years, 0 days | Brazil |
| Mary Fallin |  |  Oklahoma | Governor | 10 January 2011 | 14 January 2019 | 8 years, 4 days | United States |
| Nikki Haley |  |  South Carolina | Governor | 12 January 2011 | 24 January 2017 | 6 years, 12 days | United States |
| Lara Giddings |  |  Tasmania | Premier | 24 January 2011 | 31 March 2014 | 3 years, 66 days | Australia |
| Christy Clark |  | British Columbia | Premier | 14 March 2011 | 18 July 2017 | 6 years, 126 days | Canada |
| Mamata Banerjee | .jpg) | West Bengal | Chief Minister | 20 May 2011 | Incumbent | 13 years, 20 days | India |
| María Dolores de Cospedal | .jpg) |  Castile-La Mancha | President | 22 June 2011 | 1 July 2015 | 4 years, 9 days | Spain |
| Yolanda Barcina |  |  Navarre | President | 23 June 2011 | 20 July 2015 | 4 years, 27 days | Spain |
| Luisa Fernanda Rudi Ubeda | .jpg) |  Aragon | President | 13 July 2011 | 3 July 2015 | 3 years, 355 days | Spain |
| Paula Sánchez de León | |  Valencian Community | Acting President | 20 July 2011 | 28 July 2011 | 8 days | Spain |
| Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer |  |  Saarland | Minister-President | 10 August 2011 | 28 February 2018 | 6 years, 202 days | Germany |
| Alison Redford |  |  Alberta | Premier | 7 October 2011 | 23 March 2014 | 2 years, 167 days | Canada |
| Lucía Corpacci |  |  Catamarca | Governor | 10 December 2011 | 10 December 2019 | 8 years, 0 days | Argentina |
| Marina Kovtun |  |  Murmansk Oblast | Governor | 4 April 2012 | 21 March 2019 | 6 years, 351 days | Russia |
| Adriana D'Elia |  |  Miranda | Governor | 6 June 2012 | 15 January 2013 | 223 days | Venezuela |
| Pauline Marois |  |  Quebec | Premier | 19 September 2012 | 23 April 2014 | 1 year, 216 days | Canada |
| Erika Farías | |  Cojedes | Governor | 28 December 2012 | 30 September 2016 | 3 years, 277 days | Venezuela |
| Maggie Hassan |  | New Hampshire | Governor | 3 January 2013 | 2 January 2017 | 3 years, 365 days | United States |
| Malu Dreyer |  |  Rhineland-Palatinate | Minister-President | 16 January 2013 | Incumbent | 11 years, 145 days | Germany |
| Kathleen Wynne |  |  Ontario | Premier | 11 February 2013 | 29 June 2018 | 5 years, 138 days | Canada |
| Željka Cvijanović |  | Republika Srpska | Prime Minister | 12 March 2013 | 19 November 2018 | 5 years, 252 days | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| President | 19 November 2018 | 15 November 2022 | 3 years, 361 days | ||||
| Svetlana Orlova | .jpg) |  Vladimir Oblast | Governor | 24 March 2013 | 8 October 2018 | 5 years, 198 days | Russia |
| Aleqa Hammond | .jpg) |  Greenland | Prime Minister | 5 April 2013 | 30 September 2014 | 1 year, 178 days |  Denmark |
| Debora Serracchiani |  | Friuli-Venezia Giulia | President | 25 April 2013 | 26 March 2018 | 4 years, 336 days | Italy |
| Susana Díaz | .jpg) |  Andalusia | President | 5 September 2013 | 18 January 2019 | 5 years, 135 days | Spain |
| Claudia Ledesma Abdala | .jpg) | Santiago del Estero | Governor | 10 December 2013 | 10 December 2017 | 4 years, 0 days | Argentina |
| Anandiben Patel |  | Gujarat | Gujarat | 22 May 2014 | 7 August 2016 | 2 years, 77 days | India |
| Nicola Sturgeon |  |  Scotland | First Minister | 20 November 2014 | 28 March 2023 | 8 years, 128 days | United Kingdom |
| Suely Campos |  |  Roraima | Governor | 1 January 2015 | 10 December 2018 | 3 years, 343 days | Brazil |
| Muriel Bowser | .jpg) | District of Columbia | Mayor | 2 January 2015 | Incumbent | 9 years, 159 days | United States |
| Gina Raimondo |  |  Rhode Island | Governor | 6 January 2015 | 2 March 2021 | 6 years, 55 days | United States |
| Annastacia Palaszczuk |  | Queensland | Premier | 14 February 2015 | 15 December 2023 | 8 years, 304 days | Australia |
| Rachel Notley |  | Alberta | Premier | 24 May 2015 | 30 April 2019 | 3 years, 341 days | Canada |
| Kate Brown |  | Oregon | Governor | 18 February 2015 | 9 January 2023 | 7 years, 325 days | United States |
| Cristina Cifuentes | .jpg) | Community of Madrid | President | 24 June 2015 | 25 April 2018 | 2 years, 305 days | Spain |
| Francina Armengol |  |  Balearic Islands | President | 30 June 2015 | 20 June 2023 | 7 years, 355 days | Spain |
| Uxue Barkos | _Inauguraci%C3%B3n_de_la_Cl%C3%ADnica_de_la_Universidad_de_Navarra_en_Madrid_(39109449055)_(cropped).jpg) | Navarre | President | 20 July 2015 | 6 August 2019 | 4 years, 17 days | Spain |
| Claudia Pavlovich Arellano |  |  Sonora | Governor | 13 September 2015 | 12 September 2021 | 5 years, 364 days | Mexico |
| María Eugenia Vidal | .jpg) |  Buenos Aires Province | Governor | 10 December 2015 | 10 December 2019 | 4 years, 0 days | Argentina |
| Alicia Kirchner |  |  Santa Cruz | Governor | 10 December 2015 | 10 December 2023 | 8 years, 0 days | Argentina |
| Rosana Bertone | .jpg) | Tierra del Fuego | Governor | 10 December 2015 | 17 December 2019 | 4 years, 7 days | Argentina |
| Natalia Zhdanova | .jpg) |  Zabaykalsky Krai | Governor | 18 February 2016 | 25 October 2018 | 2 years, 249 days | Russia |
| Mehbooba Mufti |  |  Jammu and Kashmir | Chief Minister | 4 April 2016 | 20 June 2018 | 2 years, 77 days | India |
| Caryl Bertho |  |  Aragua | Governor | 5 January 2017 | 15 October 2017 | 283 days | Venezuela |
| Gladys Berejiklian | .jpg) | New South Wales | Premier | 23 January 2017 | 5 October 2021 | 4 years, 255 days | Australia |
| María Dolores Pagán | | Murcia | Acting President | 4 April 2017 | 3 May 2017 | 29 days | Spain |
| Kay Ivey | .jpg) | Alabama | Governor | 10 April 2017 | Incumbent | 7 years, 60 days | United States |
| Johanna Mikl-Leitner | .JPG) |  Lower Austria | Governor | 19 April 2017 | Incumbent | 7 years, 51 days | Austria |
| Kim Reynolds | .jpg) |  Iowa | Governor | 24 May 2017 | Incumbent | 7 years, 16 days | United States |
| Manuela Schwesig |  |  Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | Minister-President | 4 July 2017 | Incumbent | 6 years, 341 days | Germany |
| Carmen Meléndez |  |  Lara | Governor | 16 October 2017 | Incumbent | 6 years, 237 days | Venezuela |
| Laidy Gómez | |  Táchira | Governor | 23 October 2017 | Incumbent | 6 years, 230 days | Venezuela |
| Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría |  |  Catalonia | President (Direct rule) | 27 October 2017 | 1 June 2018 | 217 days | Spain |
| Evelyn Wever-Croes |  |  Aruba | Prime Minister | 17 November 2017 | Incumbent | 6 years, 205 days | Netherlands |
| Leona Marlin-Romeo |  | Sint Maarten | Prime Minister | 15 January 2018 | 10 October 2019 | 1 year, 268 days | Netherlands |
| Katharina Fegebank |  |  Hamburg | Acting First Mayor | 13 March 2018 | 28 March 2018 | 15 days | Germany |
| Ilse Aigner |  |  Bavaria | Acting Minister-President | 14 March 2018 | 16 March 2018 | 2 days | Germany |
| Cida Borghetti | ,_2014.jpg) |  Paraná | Governor | 6 April 2018 | 1 January 2019 | 270 days | Brazil |
| Nicoletta Spelgatti |  |  Valle d'Aosta | President | 27 June 2018 | 10 December 2018 | 166 days | Italy |
| Vera Shcherbina | |  Sakhalin Oblast | Acting Governor | 26 September 2018 | 7 December 2018 | 72 days | Russia |
| Srebrenka Golić | .jpg) | Republika Srpska | Acting Prime Minister | 19 November 2018 | 18 December 2018 | 29 days | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Claudia Sheinbaum |  | Mexico City | Head of government | 5 December 2018 | Incumbent | 5 years, 187 days | Mexico |
| Martha Érika Alonso |  |  Puebla | Governor | 14 December 2018 | 24 December 2018 (died in office) | 10 days | Mexico |
| Gretchen Whitmer |  | Michigan | Governor | 1 January 2019 | Incumbent | 5 years, 160 days | United States |
| Michelle Lujan Grisham |  | New Mexico | Governor | 1 January 2019 | Incumbent | 5 years, 160 days | United States |
| Fátima Bezerra | .jpg) | Rio Grande do Norte | Governor | 1 January 2019 | Incumbent | 5 years, 160 days | Brazil |
| Janet Mills |  |  Maine | Governor | 2 January 2019 | Incumbent | 5 years, 159 days | United States |
| Kristi Noem |  |  South Dakota | Governor | 5 January 2019 | Incumbent | 5 years, 156 days | United States |
| Laura Kelly |  | Kansas | Governor | 14 January 2019 | Incumbent | 5 years, 147 days | United States |
| Liesbeth Homans |  |  Flanders | Minister-President | 2 July 2019 | 1 October 2019 | 91 days | Belgium |
| María Chivite | .jpg) | Navarre | President | 6 August 2019 | Incumbent | 4 years, 308 days | Spain |
| Isabel Díaz Ayuso | _(cropped).jpg) | Community of Madrid | President | 14 August 2019 | Incumbent | 4 years, 300 days | Spain |
| Concha Andreu |  |  La Rioja | President | 29 August 2019 | Incumbent | 4 years, 285 days | Spain |
| Donatella Tesei |  | Umbria | President | 11 November 2019 | Incumbent | 4 years, 211 days | Italy |
| Silveria Jacobs |  | Sint Maarten | Prime Minister | 19 November 2019 | Incumbent | 4 years, 203 days | Netherlands |
| Arabela Carreras | .png) |  Río Negro | Governor | 10 December 2019 | 10 December 2023 | 4 years, 0 days | Argentina |
| Michelle O'Neill | .jpg) | Northern Ireland | Deputy First Minister | 11 January 2020 | 4 February 2022 | 2 years, 24 days | United Kingdom |
| First Minister | 3 February 2024 | Incumbent | 127 days | ||||
| Olga Antipina | |  Perm Krai | Acting Governor | 21 January 2020 | 6 February 2020 | 16 days | Russia |
| Jole Santelli |  |  Calabria | President | 15 February 2020 | 15 October 2020 (died in office) | 243 days | Italy |
| Kathy Hochul |  |  New York | Governor | 24 August 2021 | Incumbent | 2 years, 290 days | United States |
| Lorena Cuéllar Cisneros |  | Tlaxcala | Governor | 31 August 2021 | Incumbent | 2 years, 283 days | Mexico |
| María Eugenia Campos Galván |  |  Chihuahua | Governor | 8 September 2021 | Incumbent | 2 years, 275 days | Mexico |
| Layda Sansores | .jpg) |  Campeche | Governor | 15 September 2021 | Incumbent | 2 years, 268 days | Mexico |
| Evelyn Salgado Pineda |  |  Guerrero | Governor | 15 October 2021 | Incumbent | 2 years, 238 days | Mexico |
| Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda |  |  Baja California | Governor | 1 November 2021 | Incumbent | 2 years, 221 days | Mexico |
| Indira Vizcaíno Silva |  | Colima | Governor | 1 November 2021 | Incumbent | 2 years, 221 days | Mexico |
| Heather Stefanson |  |  Manitoba | Premier | 2 November 2021 | 18 October 2023 | 1 year, 350 days | Canada |
| Franziska Giffey |  |  Berlin | Governing Mayor | 21 December 2021 | 27 April 2023 | 1 year, 127 days | Germany |
| Regina Sousa |  |  Piauí | Governor | 31 March 2022 | 01 January 2023 | 276 days | Brazil |
| Izolda Cela | .jpg) |  Ceará | Governor | 2 April 2022 | 01 January 2023 | 274 days | Brazil |
| Anke Rehlinger | .jpg) | Saarland | Minister-President | 25 April 2022 | Incumbent | 2 years, 45 days | Germany |
| Mara Lezama Espinosa |  |  Quintana Roo | Governor | 25 September 2022 | Incumbent | 1 year, 258 days | Mexico |
| María Teresa Jiménez Esquivel |  |  Aguascalientes | Governor | 1 October 2022 | Incumbent | 1 year, 252 days | Mexico |
| Danielle Smith |  | Alberta | Premier | 11 October 2022 | Incumbent | 1 year, 242 days | Canada |
| Raquel Lyra |  |  Pernambuco | Governor | 1 January 2023 | Incumbent | 1 year, 160 days | Brazil |
| Katie Hobbs |  | Arizona | Governor | 2 January 2023 | Incumbent | 1 year, 159 days | United States |
| Maura Healey | .jpg) | Massachusetts | Governor | 5 January 2023 | Incumbent | 1 year, 156 days | United States |
| Celina Leão | _(cropped).jpg) | Federal District | Interim Governor | 8 January 2023 | 15 March 2023 | 66 days | Brazil |
| Tina Kotek | .jpg) | Oregon | Governor | 9 January 2023 | Incumbent | 1 year, 152 days | United States |
| Sarah Huckabee Sanders |  |  Arkansas | Governor | 10 January 2023 | Incumbent | 1 year, 151 days | United States |
| Lidija Bradara |  | Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina | President | 28 February 2023 | Incumbent | 1 year, 102 days | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Mae de la Concha |  | Balearic Islands | President | 19 June 2023 | 7 July 2023 | 18 days | Spain |
| Marga Prohens | .jpg) | Balearic Islands | President | 7 July 2023 | Incumbent | 338 days | Spain |
| Jacinta Allan | .jpg) | Victoria | Premier | 27 September 2023 | Incumbent | 256 days | Australia |
| Emma Little-Pengelly |  | Northern Ireland | Deputy First Minister | 3 February 2024 | Incumbent | 127 days | United Kingdom |
| Maryam Nawaz |  |  Punjab | Chief Minister | 26 February 2024 | Incumbent | 104 days |  Pakistan |
Female viceregal representatives of a constituent country or representatives to the government[edit]
| Name | Portrait | Country | Office | Mandate start | Mandate end | Term length | Parent country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vibeke Larsen[1][2][b] | |  Faroe Islands | High Commissioner | 30 June 1996 | 1 November 2001 | 5 years, 124 days | Denmark |
| Mo Mowlam | | Northern Ireland | Secretary of State | 3 May 1997 | 11 October 1999 | 2 years, 161 days | United Kingdom |
| Helen Liddell |  | Scotland | Secretary of State | 25 January 2001 | 13 June 2003 | 2 years, 139 days | United Kingdom |
| Birgit Kleis[1][2] | | Faroe Islands | High Commissioner | 1 November 2001 | 1 August 2005 | 3 years, 273 days | Denmark |
| Cheryl Gillan |  |  Wales | Secretary of State | 12 May 2010 | 4 September 2012 | 2 years, 115 days | United Kingdom |
| Mikaela Engell | | Greenland | High Commissioner | 1 April 2011 | 30 April 2022 | 11 years, 29 days | Denmark |
| Theresa Villiers |  | Northern Ireland | Secretary of State | 4 September 2012 | 14 July 2016 | 3 years, 314 days | United Kingdom |
| Adèle van der Pluijm-Vrede |  |  Curaçao | Acting Governor | 24 November 2012 | 4 November 2013 | 345 days | Netherlands |
| Lucille George-Wout |  | Curaçao | Governor | 4 November 2013 | Incumbent | 10 years, 218 days | Netherlands |
| Lene Moyell Johansen | | Faroe Islands | High Commissioner | 15 May 2017 | Incumbent | 7 years, 25 days | Denmark |
| Karen Bradley |  | Northern Ireland | Secretary of State | 8 January 2018 | 24 July 2019 | 1 year, 197 days | United Kingdom |
| Julie Præst Wilche | | Greenland | High Commissioner | 1 May 2022 | Incumbent | 2 years, 39 days | Denmark |
Dependent, autonomous and insular territories[edit]
Denotes incumbent head of territory/government