Charlene Evelyn Dolly Warren-Peu (born 9 June 1979)Who Are the Pitcairners?
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politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...

, who has served as Mayor of the Pitcairn Islands since 2020. She is the first woman to hold the position on a permanent basis. She previously served as Deputy Mayor, and was on the Island Council.

Biography

Warren-Peu was born on Pitcairn to Carol and

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, and is an eighth-generation descendant of the ''Bounty'' mutineers that originally settled Pitcairn. Her mother was jointly one of the first women to sit on the Island Council, while her father was Magistrate of Pitcairn in 1991 and mayor from 2005 to 2007. Warren-Peu runs the island post office, manages a homestay for visitors, and produces honey with her husband Vaine Warren-Peu, a

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. The couple have five children. Warren-Peu was elected to the Island Council in

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.Election
Dem Tull, October 2013 She was elected Deputy Mayor in

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and re-elected to the post in

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. In the 2019 general elections, she was elected mayor.Charlene Warren-Peu, Pitcairn Island's first female mayor
Stuff, 7 November 2019

References

1979 births Living people Mayors of the Pitcairn Islands Members of the Island Council of the Pitcairn Islands Pitcairn Islands women in politics {{Pitcairn-politician-stub