Not latest. she is the first openly gay woman to be president.

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Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, (born Oct. 4, 1942, Reykjavík,

Ice.), Icelandic politician who became prime minister of

Iceland in 2009. She was the country’s first female

prime minister and the world’s first openly gay head of

government (Per-Kristian Foss served briefly as acting

prime minister of Norway in 2002).

Sigurðardóttir worked as a flight attendant for Loftleiðir

Icelandic Airlines from 1962 to 1971, and she was an

active labour union member, twice serving as chairman

of the board of the Icelandic Cabin Crew Association

(1966, 1969). She took an office job in Reykjavík in

1971. While there she continued her association with

organized labour, and she sat on the board of the

Commercial Workers’ Union. In 1978 Sigurðardóttir was

elected to the Althingi (parliament) as a member of the

Social Democratic Party, representing Reykjavík. She

quickly gained a reputation as an advocate for social

justice, and she called for the strengthening of

Iceland’s welfare system. She was named minister of

social affairs in 1987, a position she held until 1994,

when she unsuccessfully campaigned for leadership of

the Social Democratic Party. Sigurðardóttir responded

to this setback by forming her own party, National

Movement, which captured four seats in the subsequent

parliamentary election. The two parties reconciled in

1999, when they joined with the Women’s Alliance and

the People’s Alliance to contest that year’s election; in

2000 the coalition formally became the Social

Democratic Alliance.

By this time Sigurðardóttir had established herself as

one of the leading personalities in Icelandic politics.

She returned to the ministry of social affairs in 2007,

and she emerged as a voice of calm in the wake of

Iceland’s financial collapse in 2008. After the

resignation of conservative Prime Minister Geir Haarde

in January 2009, Sigurðardóttir led a coalition of Social

Democrats and Left-Greens to form a caretaker

minority government. On Feb. 1, 2009, she was formally

sworn in as Iceland’s prime minister. In the April

elections the Social Democrats and Left-Greens won 34

seats, capturing a slim majority in the 63-member

parliament. Shortly thereafter Sigurðardóttir announced

that one of her top priorities as prime minister would be

securing Iceland’s membership in the European Union.

On June 27, 2010, the day that same-sex marriage

became legal in Iceland, Sigurðardóttir and her partner

Jónína Leósdóttir were married by means of a simple

conversion of their registered partnership.

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I don't know how to upload /paste pictures here, else I wud HV placed her picture and that of her wife.

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Interesting story

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Thanks @flyj