Teresina Bodkin is a

Montserrat Montserrat ( ) is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is part of the Leeward Islands, the northern portion of the Lesser Antilles chain of the West Indies. Montserrat is about long and wide, with r ...

teacher and civil servant who became the first woman Speaker of the

Legislative Council of Montserrat The Legislative Council was the unicameral legislature of Montserrat from 1951 to 2011. History Universal suffrage was introduced in Montserrat in 1951, with five members elected to the Legislative Council from 1952. Prior to the 1970 elections ...

. Bodkin was born on Montserrat and she worked as a secondary school maths teacher who went on to be Montserrat's Director of Statistics, She held that role for 15 years. On 6 April 2010, Bodkin was selected as the first female Speaker of the island's Legislative Council.Teresina Bodkin
caribbeanelections.com. KnowledgeWalk Institute, Retrieved 12 February 2016 Bodkin was supported in this new role by six months of training by former speaker Sir Howard Fergus. During that time Fergus returned to his former role replacing the previous speaker, Joseph Meade. Bodkin served until September 2014. On 17 December 2019, she was reelected to the position of the speaker.

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Living people Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of Montserrat Members of the Legislative Council of Montserrat Montserratian women in politics Date of birth missing (living people) 21st-century British women politicians Year of birth missing (living people) Women legislative speakers {{Montserrat-politician-stub

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