List of presidents of the Senate of the Bahamas

This is a list of presidents of the Senate of the Bahamas. The president is the presiding officer of the Senate of the Bahamas. Below is a list of office-holders:

Name	Entered office	Left office
Sir George W. K. Roberts	January 1964	June 1964
Sir Leonard J. Knowles, CBE [1] [2]	1964	1972
Sir Gerald Cash, GCMG, GCVO, OBE, JP [3]	1972	1973
Dame Doris Louise Johnson [4]	1973	1982
Edwin Coleby [5]	1982	1992
John Henry Bostwick [6]	1992	May 2002
Sharon R. Wilson [4] [7]	May 2002	May 2007
Lynn Holowesko [4]	May 2007	May 2012
Sharon R. Wilson [4]	May 2012	May 2017
Katherine Forbes-Smith [8] [9]	May 2017	December 2019
Mildred Hall-Watson [10] [9]	December 2019	October 2021
Lashell Adderley [11] [9]	October 2021	Incumbent

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10. Scott, Rachel (6 December 2019). "Mildred Hall-Watson elected as Senate president". The Nassau Guardian. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
11. "Bahamas: History made as women to serve as House speaker and President of the Senate". The Habari Network. Retrieved 6 November 2021.