Speaker of the Gibraltar Parliament

Speaker of the Gibraltar Parliament
Coat of arms of Gibraltar
Incumbent Karen Ramagge Prescott since 10 November 2023
Style	Mrs Speaker (within Parliament) The Honourable (formal)
Residence	Parliament House
Appointer	Gibraltar Parliament
Term length	At His Majesty's pleasure (elected by the Commons at the start of each Parliament, and upon a vacancy)
Inaugural holder	William Thompson
Salary	£55,982 (per annum)

The Speaker of the Gibraltar Parliament is the presiding officer of the Gibraltar Parliament, the legislature of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. The current Speaker is Karen Ramagge Prescott, who succeeded Melvynn Farell on 10 November 2023 to become the first female to take the role.

List of Speakers

Speakers of the Legislative Council

A Legislative Council, the predecessor of the parliament, was inaugurated on 23 November 1950. A Speaker was appointed in 1958.

Name	Period
Presidents (The Governor of Gibraltar):	1950–1958
General Sir Kenneth Anderson, KCB, MC	1950–1952
General Sir Gordon MacMillan, KCB, CBE, DSO, MC	1952–1955
Lieutenant General Sir Harold Redman, KCB, CBE	1955–1958
Speakers	1958–1969
Major Joseph Patron OBE, MC, JP	1958–1964
William Thompson, OBE, JP	1964–1969

Speakers of the Gibraltar Parliament

Between 1969 and 2007 the Gibraltar Parliament was styled as the House of Assembly. ^[1]

Image	Name	Term	Parliaments
	Colonel William Thompson, OBE, JP	1969–1970	1st
	Sir Alfred Vasquez, CBE, QC	1970–1992	1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th
	Robert Peliza, OBE, ED	1992–1996	7th
	John Alcantara, CBE	1996–2007	8th 9th 10th
	Haresh Budhrani, KC	11 October 2007 – 9 December 2011	11th
	Adolfo Canepa, GMH, OBE	21 December 2011 – 19 November 2019	12th 13th
	Melvyn Farrell, BEM, GMD, RD, JP	19 November 2019 – 10 November 2023	14th
	Karen Ramagge Prescott, GMH, JP	10 November 2023–present	15th

References

1. Gibraltar Parliament (2019), Parliament – Speakers (PDF), retrieved 14 April 2023