First elected women heads of state.Two nations saw their first elected women heads of state sworn into office in January 2006. Sixty-seven-year-old Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (born October 29, 1938) is the current president of Liberia, Africa's first elected female head of state and Liberia's first elected female president.The Liberian elections commission announced her victory on November 23, 2005, following the 2005 election. , a former World Bank economist, was elected president of Liberia The following is a list of Presidents of the Republic of Liberia, made up of the 24 heads of state in the history of Liberia. This list includes only presidents sworn in after the declaration of independence of Liberia on July 26, 1847. , and voters in socially conservative Chile elected their former defense minister, fifty-four-year-old Dr. Michelle Bachelet Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria (born September 29 1951) is a center-left politician and the current President of Chile—the first woman to hold this position in the country's history. , to the top office. Karen Ann Gajewski is a freelance editor and an editorial consultant to the Humanist. |
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