This is a list of political offices which have been held by a woman, with details of the first woman holder of each office. It is ordered by the countries in North and Central American and the Caribbean and by dates of appointment. Please observe that this list is meant to contain only the first woman to hold of a political office, and not all the female holders of that office. The first female governor in North America and the Americas overall was Beatriz de la Cuevaappointed in 1541, when Central America was part of Spain.

Anguilla

Antigua and Barbuda

Aruba

The Bahamas

Barbados

Belize

Bermuda

British Virgin Islands

Canada

National level

Legislature

Political parties

Individual ministries or regions

Ontario

Manitoba

Saskatchewan

New Brunswick

Quebec

Alberta

Nova Scotia

British Columbia

Prince Edward Island

Newfoundland and Labrador

Yukon

Northwest Territories

Nunavut

Cayman Islands

Costa Rica

Cuba

Curaçao

Dominica

National level

Individual ministries

Dominican Republic

El Salvador

Grenada

Guadeloupe

Guatemala

National level

Individual ministries

Haiti

Honduras

Jamaica

Martinique

Mexico

National offices

Local and municipal elected offices

State elected offices

Colima

Tlaxcala

Yucatán

Zacatecas

Federal District/Mexico City

Sonora

Aguascalientes

Baja California

Campeche

Chihuahua

Guerrero

State of Mexico

Quintana Roo

Montserrat

Netherlands Antilles

Nicaragua

Panama

Puerto Rico

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Lucia

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Sint Maarten

Trinidad and Tobago

National level

Legislature

Regional

Tobago

Individual ministries

Turks and Caicos Islands

United States

Governors of each State

Senators of each State

Representatives of each State

Non-voting members of each Territory or District of Columbia

Congressional Firsts

Local and municipal elected offices

State elected offices

National offices

Elected

National caucus or political party

Heads of the each Federal Executive Department

Heads of Federal Executive Departments

Executive Office of the President advisors