Catharine Letitia Hoey,Baroness Hoey,better known as Kate Hoey,is a Northern Irish politician and life peer who served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Home Affairs from 1998 to 1999 and Minister for Sport from 1999 to 2001. During the 1970s Hoey was involved in radical far-left groups but by the end of the decade became involved with the Labour Party. Hoey remained a member of the Labour Party for several decades while she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Vauxhall from 1989 to 2019,but resigned from the party in 2020.
Dame Diana Ruth Johnson is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kingston upon Hull North since the 2005 general election. A member of the Labour Party,she has served as Minister of State for Policing,Fire and Crime Prevention since July 2024.
Tini "Whetu" Marama Tirikatene-Sullivan was a New Zealand politician. She was an MP from 1967 to 1996,representing the Labour Party and was New Zealand’s first Māori woman cabinet minister. At the time of her retirement,she was the second longest-serving MP in Parliament,being in her tenth term of office. She was one of twenty holders of the Order of New Zealand,the highest honour of the country.
Baby of the House is the unofficial title given to the youngest member of a parliamentary house. The term is most often applied to members of the British parliament,from which the term originated. The title is named after the Father of the House,which is given to the longest-serving member of the British and other parliaments.
Martha Wangari Karua is a Kenyan politician. She is a former long-standing member of parliament for Gichugu Constituency and an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya. She was Minister for Justice until resigning from that position in April 2009. She has consistently fought for the protection of women's rights and improvements to the democratic process.
Jennifer Chapman,Baroness Chapman of Darlington is a British politician and life peer who has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Latin America and Caribbean since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party,she served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Darlington from 2010 to 2019.
Nancy Gladys Tembo is a Malawian politician and serves as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Malawi Government since 2022. She is also a Member of Parliament (MP) representing Lilongwe City South West constituency in the National Assembly of the Republic of Malawi.
Catherine Gotani Hara is a Malawian politician who has been the Speaker of the National Assembly since June 2019,the first woman to hold the position.
Elizabeth II was Queen of Malawi from 1964 to 1966,when Malawi was an independent sovereign state and a constitutional monarchy within the Commonwealth of Nations. She was also the sovereign of the other Commonwealth realms,including the United Kingdom. The 1964 Constitution of Malawi vested executive power in the monarch as head of state,though her constitutional roles were delegated to her representative,the Governor-General,Sir Glyn Smallwood Jones,who was also the last Governor of Nyasaland.
Mhairi Black is a Scottish politician who served as Deputy Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) in the House of Commons from 2022 to 2024,and as a Member of Parliament for Paisley and Renfrewshire South from 2015 to 2024.
Ofunne Kate Osamor is a British Labour and Co-operative politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Edmonton and Winchmore Hill,previously Edmonton,since 2015. She was Shadow Secretary of State for International Development from 2016 to 2018. She is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group parliamentary caucus.
Kiritapu Lyndsay Allan,known as Kiri Allan,is a New Zealand lawyer and former politician. She was a member of Parliament (MP) in the New Zealand House of Representatives from 2017 to 2023,representing the Labour Party in the East Coast electorate.
Siobhan Kathleen Baillie is a former British politician. A member of the Conservative Party,she was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stroud from the 2019 general election until 2024. Before her parliamentary career,she was a family law solicitor,a councillor,and worked for a charity.
Mimmy Martha Gondwe is a South African politician serving as the Deputy Minister of Higher Education since 2024. A member of the Democratic Alliance,Gondwe was Shadow Deputy Minister of State Security from 2019 to 2020,the Shadow Deputy Minister of Public Service and Administration between 2020 and 2023,and the Shadow Minister of Public Enterprises from 2023 until 2024. She has been a Member of Parliament (MP) in the National Assembly since May 2019.
Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda is a Malawian politician. In 2020 she became Minister of Health in Malawi.
Kim Michele Leadbeater is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Spen Valley,formerly Batley and Spen,since 2021.
Martha Thokozani Chikuni was a Malawian journalist,television personality and diplomat. She was one of the first women news anchors at Television Malawi. She served as the head of media marketing at the State Residence during the administration of Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera and as special assistant to President Joyce Banda. She was a former diplomat to the Malawian mission to the United States in Washington D.C.,responsible for trade and tourism marketing.
Overstone Kondowe is a Malawi Congress Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nkhotakota North East since 2021. He is the country's first MP with albinism. He was a Presidential Advisor on Persons with Disabilities.
Agnes Nyalonje is a Malawian politician who has served as the country's Education Minister since July 2020.
Esther Jolobala is a Malawian politician who has served in the Parliament of Malawi since 2014,representing the Machinga East constituency as a member of the United Democratic Front.
