List of female justice ministers

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A justice ministry, ministry of justice, or department of justice is a ministry or other government agency in charge of the administration of justice. The ministry or department is often headed by a minister of justice (called minister for justice in only very few countries) or secretary of justice. In countries where this agency is called a department (usually department of justice, sometimes attorney general's department) the head of the department is entitled attorney general, for example in the United States. Some countries have a solicitor general.

Specific duties may relate to organizing the

elections, directing the police, law reform. The duties of the ministry of justice may in some countries be split from separate responsibilities of an attorney general (often responsible for the justice system) and the interior minister
(often responsible for public order). Sometimes the prison system is separated into another government department called Corrective Services.

There have been 122 female justice ministers since 1952,[citation needed] when Adriana Olguín was appointed by the Chilean government to be justice minister. She was also the first female minister in Latin America.

Sovereign states

  Denotes incumbent justice minister or attorney general
  • Italics denotes an acting justice minister and of extinct states
Name Image Country Continent Mandate start Mandate end Term length
Adriana Olguín  Chile South America 29 July 1952 3 November 1952 97 days
Ho Jong-suk  North Korea Asia 1957 2 months[1]
Stella Soulioti  Cyprus Europe 1960 1970 10 years, 0 days
Elisabeth Schweigaard Selmer  Norway Europe 12 October 1965 3 October 1970 4 years, 356 days
Svetla Daskalova  Bulgaria Europe 12 March 1966 8 February 1990 23 years, 333 days
Yolanda Myers de Vásquez  El Salvador North America 1967 1972 5 years, 0 days
Auður Auðuns  Iceland Europe 10 October 1970 14 July 1971 277 days
Inger Louise Valle  Norway Europe 16 October 1973 8 October 1979 5 years, 355 days
Nathalie Lind  Denmark Europe 19 December 1973 13 February 1975 1 year, 56 days
Inkeri Anttila  Finland Europe 13 June 1975 30 November 1975 170 days
Mónica Madariaga  Chile South America 20 April 1977 14 February 1983 5 years, 300 days
Elizabeth Odio Benito  Costa Rica America 8 May 1978 8 May 1982 4 years, 0 days
Nathalie Lind  Denmark Europe 30 August 1978 26 October 1979 1 year, 57 days
Colette Flesch  Luxembourg Europe 22 November 1980 20 July 1984 3 years, 241 days
Mona Røkke  Norway Europe 14 October 1981 3 October 1985 3 years, 354 days
Dina Castro de Callejas  El Salvador North America 1982 1984 2 years, 0 days
Anna-Greta Leijon  Sweden Europe 11 November 1983 15 November 1983 4 days
Elisabeth Kopp   Switzerland Europe 2 October 1984 12 January 1988 4 years, 102 days
Wenche Frogn Sellæg  Norway Europe 4 October 1985 9 May 1986 217 days
Helen Bøsterud  Norway Europe 9 May 1986 16 October 1989 3 years, 160 days
Pura Luz Núñez Pérez  Dominican Republic North America 1986 1987 1 year, 0 days
Anna-Greta Leijon  Sweden Europe 19 October 1987 7 June 1988 232 days
Semiramis Olivo de Pichardo  Dominican Republic North America 1988 1990 2 years, 0 days
Laila Freivalds  Sweden Europe 4 October 1988 4 October 1991 3 years, 0 days
Rhina de Rey Prendes  El Salvador North America 1989 1990 1 year, 0 days
Mónica de Greiff  Colombia South America 16 July 1989 7 August 1990 1 year, 22 days
Else Bugge Fougner  Norway Europe 16 October 1989 3 November 1990 1 year, 18 days
Maruja Chacón Pacheco  Costa Rica North America 8 May 1989 8 May 1990 1 year, 0 days
Kim Campbell  Canada North America 23 February 1990 3 January 1993 2 years, 315 days
Tarja Halonen  Finland Europe 1 March 1990 26 April 1991 1 year, 56 days
Elizabeth Odio Benito  Costa Rica North America 8 May 1990 8 May 1994 4 years, 0 days
Kari Gjesteby  Norway Europe 3 November 1990 3 September 1992 1 year, 305 days
Hannele Pokka  Finland Europe 26 April 1991 30 April 1994 3 years, 4 days
Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger  Germany Europe 18 May 1992 17 January 1996 3 years, 244 days
Grete Faremo  Norway Europe 4 September 1992 25 October 1996 4 years, 51 days
Anna Benaki-Psarouda  Greece Europe 3 December 1992 13 September 1993 284 days
Celin Discua
 Honduras North America 1993 1994 1 year, 0 days
Máire Geoghegan-Quinn  Ireland Europe 4 January 1993 15 December 1994 1 year, 345 days
Pia Gjellerup  Denmark Europe 25 January 1993 29 March 1993 63 days
Janet Reno  United States North America 11 March 1993 20 January 2001 7 years, 315 days
Anneli Jäätteenmäki  Finland Europe 1 May 1994 13 April 1995 347 days
Winnie Sorgdrager  Netherlands Europe 22 August 1994 3 August 1998 3 years, 346 days
Laila Freivalds  Sweden Europe 7 October 1994 21 September 2000 5 years, 350 days
Nora Owen  Ireland Europe 15 December 1994 26 June 1997 2 years, 193 days
Janet Bostwick  Bahamas North America 1995 1997 2 years, 0 days
Maureen Clarke  Costa Rica America 19 June 1995 3 July 1996 1 year, 14 days
Ritsuko Nagao  Japan Asia 11 January 1996 7 November 1996 301 days
Hawa Sisay-Sabally  Gambia Africa April 1996 31 July 1998 2 years, 121 days
Margarita Mariscal de Gante  Spain Europe 6 May 1996 28 April 2000 3 years, 358 days
Anne Holt  Norway Europe 25 October 1996 4 February 1997 102 days
Vlasta Parkanová  Czech Republic Europe 7 January 1997 22 July 1998 1 year, 196 days
Gerd-Liv Valla  Norway Europe 4 February 1997 17 October 1997 255 days
Alma Beatriz Rengifo López
 Colombia South America 21 April 1997 7 August 1998 1 year, 108 days
Élisabeth Guigou  France Europe 4 June 1997 18 October 2000 3 years, 136 days
Anne McLellan  Canada North America 11 June 1997 14 January 2002 4 years, 217 days
Suzzana Stannik  Ukraine Europe 21 August 1997 7 May 2002 4 years, 259 days
Amanda Vanstone  Australia Oceania 9 October 1997 30 January 2001 3 years, 113 days
Aud Inger Aure
 Norway Europe 17 October 1997 15 March 1999 1 year, 149 days
Hanna Suchocka  Poland Europe 31 October 1997 8 June 2000 2 years, 280 days
Mónica Nágel Berger  Costa Rica North America 8 May 1998 8 May 2002 4 years, 0 days
Fatou Bensouda  Gambia Africa 31 July 1998 March 2000 1 year, 214 days
Herta Däubler-Gmelin  Germany Europe 27 October 1998 22 October 2002 3 years, 360 days
Ingrīda Labucka  Latvia Europe 26 November 1998 16 July 1999 232 days
Yeh Chin-fong  Taiwan Asia 1 February 1999 20 May 2000 1 year, 109 days
Januaria Moreira  Cape Verde Africa 1999 2001 2 years, 0 days
Sólveig Pétursdóttir  Iceland Europe 28 May 1999 23 May 2003 3 years, 360 days
Antonieta Rosa Gomes  Guinea-Bissau Africa 19 February 2000 19 March 2001 1 year, 28 days
Soledad Alvear  Chile South America 11 March 2000 1 October 2004 4 years, 204 days
Hanne Harlem  Norway Europe 17 March 2000 19 October 2001 1 year, 216 days
Ingrīda Labucka  Latvia Europe 5 May 2000 7 November 2002 2 years, 186 days
Lena Hjelm-Wallén  Sweden Europe 21 September 2000 16 October 2000 25 days
Marylise Lebranchu  France Europe 18 October 2000 6 May 2002 1 year, 200 days
Rodica Stănoiu  Romania Europe 28 December 2000 10 March 2004 3 years, 73 days
Mia Mottley  Barbados North America 2001 2003 2 years, 0 days
Cristina Fontes Lima  Cape Verde Africa 2001 2006 5 years, 0 days
Vera Sofia Rubi  Honduras North America 2001 27 January 2002 1 year, 26 days
Mayumi Moriyama  Japan Asia 16 April 2001 19 November 2003 2 years, 217 days
Ingrid Antičević-Marinović  Croatia Europe 28 September 2001 23 December 2003 2 years, 86 days
Barbara Piwnik  Poland Europe 19 October 2001 6 July 2002 260 days
Lene Espersen  Denmark Europe 27 November 2001 10 September 2008 6 years, 288 days
Celeste Cardona  Portugal Europe 6 April 2002 17 July 2004 3 years, 102 days
Patricia Vega  Costa Rica North America 25 November 2002 8 May 2006 3 years, 164 days
Ana Pessoa Pinto  East Timor Asia 20 May 2002 2003 226 days
Brigitte Zypries  Germany Europe 22 October 2002 27 October 2009 7 years, 5 days
Merceditas Gutierrez  Philippines Asia 27 November 2002 15 January 2003 49 days
24 December 2003 31 August 2004 251 days
Kang Kum-sil  South Korea Asia 27 February 2003 29 July 2004 1 year, 153 days
Karin Gastinger  Austria Europe 28 February 2003 11 January 2007 3 years, 317 days
Laurette Onkelinx  Belgium Europe 11 July 2003 21 December 2007 4 years, 163 days
Hyacinthe Wodobodé  Central African Republic Africa 12 December 2003 2 September 2004 265 days
Vesna Škare-Ožbolt  Croatia Europe 23 December 2003 10 February 2006 2 years, 49 days
Vineta Muižniece  Latvia Europe 9 March 2004 2 December 2004 268 days
Monica Macovei  Romania Europe 29 December 2004 5 April 2007 2 years, 97 days
Brigitte Mabandla  South Africa Africa 29 April 2004 25 September 2008 1 year, 149 days
Victoria Iftodi  Moldova Europe 8 July 2004 20 September 2006 2 years, 74 days
Chieko Nōno  Japan Asia 22 September 2004 31 October 2005 1 year, 39 days
Solvita Āboltiņa  Latvia Europe 2 December 2004 7 November 2006 1 year, 340 days
Martha Karua  Kenya Africa 2005 6 April 2009 4 years
Wu Aiying  China Asia 1 July 2005 24 February 2017 11 years, 266 days
Leena Luhtanen  Finland Europe 23 September 2005 19 April 2007 1 year, 208 days
Allyson Maynard Gibson  Bahamas North America 2006 2007 1 year, 0 days
Mary Nagu  Tanzania Africa 2006 2008 2 years
Lucia Žitňanská  Slovakia Europe 8 February 2006 4 July 2006 55 days
Ana Lovrin  Croatia Europe 10 February 2006 10 October 2008 2 years, 243 days
Laura Chinchilla  Costa Rica North America 8 May 2006 8 October 2008 2 years, 153 days
Rita Verdonk  Netherlands Europe 21 September 2006 22 September 2006 1 day
Beatrice Ask  Sweden Europe 6 October 2006 3 October 2014 7 years, 362 days
Tzipi Livni  Israel Asia 29 November 2006 7 February 2007 70 days
Claire Hepburn  Bahamas North America 2007 2008 1 year, 0 days
Maria Berger  Austria Europe 11 January 2007 2 December 2008 1 year, 326 days
Carmelita Pires  Guinea-Bissau Africa 13 April 2007 2 January 2009 1 year, 264 days
Tuija Brax  Finland Europe 19 April 2007 22 June 2011 4 years, 64 days
Rachida Dati  France Europe 18 May 2007 23 June 2009 2 years, 36 days
Miglena Tacheva  Bulgaria Europe 19 July 2007 27 July 2009 2 years, 8 days
Agnes Devanadera
 Philippines Asia 3 September 2007 15 November 2007 73 days
12 January 2010 8 March 2010 55 days
Dorothy Lightbourne  Jamaica North America 11 September 2007 23 October 2011 4 years, 42 days
Marie Saine-Firdaus  Gambia Africa 14 September 2007 19 March 2010 2 years, 186 days
Annette King  New Zealand Oceania 31 October 2007 19 November 2008 1 year, 19 days
Marisa Helena Morias  Cape Verde Africa 2008 2011 3 years, 0 days
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf   Switzerland Europe 1 January 2008 31 December 2010 2 years, 364 days
Wang Ching-feng  Taiwan Asia 20 May 2008 12 March 2010 1 year, 296 days
Snežana Malović  Serbia Europe 7 July 2008 27 July 2012 4 years, 20 days
Viviana Martín Salazar  Costa Rica North America 8 October 2008 28 July 2009 293 days
Betty Mould-Iddrisu  Ghana Africa 7 January 2009 3 January 2011 1 year, 361 days
Claudia Bandion-Ortner  Austria Europe 15 January 2009 21 April 2011 2 years, 96 days
Ragna Árnadóttir  Iceland Europe 1 February 2009 2 September 2010 1 year, 213 days
Aurelia Frick  Liechtenstein Europe 25 March 2009 2 July 2019 10 years, 99 days
Daniela Kovářová  Czech Republic Europe 8 May 2009 13 July 2010 1 year, 66 days
Michèle Alliot-Marie  France Europe 23 June 2009 13 November 2010 1 year, 143 days
Margarita Popova  Bulgaria Europe 27 July 2009 29 November 2011 2 years, 125 days
Keiko Chiba  Japan Asia 16 September 2009 17 September 2010 1 year, 1 day
Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger  Germany Europe 28 October 2009 17 December 2013 4 years, 50 days
Simonetta Sommaruga   Switzerland Europe 1 January 2010 31 December 2018 8 years, 364 days
María Encarnación de Contreras  Guatemala North America 15 May 2010 25 May 2010 10 days
11 June 2010 9 December 2010 181 days
Leila de Lima  Philippines Asia 30 June 2010 12 October 2015 5 years, 104 days
Lucia Žitňanská  Slovakia Europe 8 July 2010 4 April 2012 1 year, 271 days
Claudia Paz y Paz  Guatemala North America 9 December 2010 17 May 2014 3 years, 159 days
Grete Faremo  Norway Europe 1 January 2011 31 March 2011 89 days
Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa  Samoa Oceania 18 March 2011 19 March 2016 5 years, 1 day
Marisela Morales
 Mexico North America 1 April 2011 30 November 2011 243 days
Beatrix Karl  Austria Europe 21 April 2011 16 December 2013 2 years, 239 days
Johana Pesántez  Ecuador South America 13 May 2011 18 June 2013 2 years, 36 days
Paula Teixeira da Cruz  Portugal Europe 21 June 2011 30 October 2015 4 years, 131 days
Anna-Maja Henriksson  Finland Europe 22 June 2011 29 May 2015 3 years, 341 days
Grete Faremo  Norway Europe 11 November 2011 16 October 2013 1 year, 339 days
Paola Severino  Italy Europe 16 November 2011 28 April 2013 1 year, 163 days
Diana Kovatcheva
 Bulgaria Europe 30 November 2011 21 February 2013 1 year, 83 days
Annemie Turtelboom  Belgium Europe 6 December 2011 25 July 2014 2 years, 231 days
Judith Collins  New Zealand Oceania 12 December 2011 30 August 2014 2 years, 261 days
Nicola Roxon  Australia Oceania 14 December 2011 2 February 2013 1 year, 50 days
Ana Pineda  Honduras North America 2012 27 January 2014 2 years, 26 days
Edite Tenjua  São Tomé and Príncipe Africa 2012 2014 2 years, 0 days
Ana Isabel Garita Vílchez  Costa Rica North America 27 June 2013 8 May 2014 315 days
Lucia Freitas Lobato
 East Timor Asia 8 May 2007 8 August 2012 5 years, 92 days
Allyson Maynard Gibson  Bahamas North America 10 May 2012 24 May 2017 5 years, 14 days
Christiane Taubira  France Europe 16 May 2012 27 January 2016 3 years, 256 days
Žaneta Jaunzeme-Grende  Latvia Europe 21 June 2012 5 July 2012 14 days
Ruth Stella Correa Palacio  Colombia South America 12 July 2012 13 September 2013 1 year, 63 days
Mona Pivniceru  Romania Europe 23 August 2012 28 March 2013 217 days
Tea Tsulukiani
 Georgia Europe 25 October 2012 1 October 2020 7 years, 342 days
Patricia Pérez Goldberg  Chile South America 17 December 2012 11 March 2014 1 year, 84 days
Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong  Ghana Africa 14 February 2013 7 January 2017 3 years, 328 days
Tzipi Livni  Israel Asia 18 March 2013 4 December 2014 1 year, 261 days
Anna Maria Cancellieri
 Italy Europe 28 April 2013 22 February 2014 300 days
Octavie Modert  Luxembourg Europe 30 April 2013 4 December 2013 218 days
Amie Joof  Gambia Africa 25 May 2013 27 August 2013 94 days
Zinaida Zlatanova  Bulgaria Europe 29 May 2013 6 August 2014 1 year, 69 days
Olena Lukash  Ukraine Europe 4 July 2013 27 February 2014 238 days
Marie Benešová  Czech Republic Europe 10 July 2013 29 January 2014 203 days
Sheila Abed  Paraguay South America 15 August 2013 15 August 2018 5 years, 0 days
Mama Fatima Singhateh  Gambia Africa 27 August 2013 27 August 2014 1 year, 0 days
Luo Ying-shay  Taiwan Asia 30 September 2013 20 May 2016 2 years, 233 days
Ledy Zúñiga Rocha  Ecuador South America 19 November 2013 24 May 2017 3 years, 186 days
Karen Hækkerup  Denmark Europe 12 December 2013 10 October 2014 302 days
Asha-Rose Migiro  Tanzania Africa 20 January 2014 5 November 2015 1 year, 289 days
Baiba Broka  Latvia Europe 22 January 2014 6 August 2014 196 days
Helena Válková  Czech Republic Europe 29 January 2014 1 March 2015 1 year, 31 days
Cristina Ramírez Chavarría  Costa Rica North America 8 May 2014 7 July 2015 1 year, 60 days
Frances Fitzgerald  Ireland Europe 8 May 2014 14 June 2017 3 years, 37 days
Thelma Aldana  Guatemala North America 17 May 2014 16 May 2018 3 years, 364 days
Carmelita Pires  Guinea-Bissau Africa 3 July 2014 13 October 2017 3 years, 102 days
Maggie De Block  Belgium Europe 25 July 2014 11 October 2014 78 days
Amy Adams  New Zealand Oceania 30 August 2014 26 October 2017 3 years, 57 days
Midori Matsushima  Japan Asia 3 September 2014 20 October 2014 47 days
Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría  Spain Europe 24 September 2014 29 September 2014 5 days
Mette Frederiksen  Denmark Europe 10 October 2014 28 June 2015 261 days
Yōko Kamikawa  Japan Asia 20 October 2014 7 October 2015 352 days
Ekaterina Zakharieva
 Bulgaria Europe 3 January 2015 27 January 2017 2 years, 24 days
Mama Fatima Singhateh  Gambia Africa 12 January 2015 17 January 2017 2 years, 5 days
Virginia Velasco Condori  Bolivia South America 22 January 2015 23 January 2017 2 years, 1 day
Loretta Lynch  United States North America 27 April 2015 20 January 2017 1 year, 268 days
Ayelet Shaked  Israel Asia 14 May 2015 2 June 2019 4 years, 19 days
Cecilia Sánchez Romero  Costa Rica North America 7 July 2015 1 January 2018 2 years, 305 days
Arpine Hovhannisyan  Armenia Europe 4 September 2015 11 May 2017 1 year, 249 days
Jody Wilson-Raybould  Canada North America 4 November 2015 12 February 2019 3 years, 100 days
Raluca Prună  Romania Europe 17 November 2015 4 January 2017 1 year, 48 days
Francisca Van Dunem  Portugal Europe 26 November 2015 30 March 2022 6 years, 124 days
Marlene Malahoo Forte  Jamaica North America 7 March 2016 10 January 2022 5 years, 309 days
Lucia Žitňanská  Slovakia Europe 23 March 2016 22 March 2018 1 year, 364 days
Janine Lélis  Cape Verde Africa 22 May 2016 Incumbent 7 years, 310 days
Liz Truss  United Kingdom Europe 14 July 2016 11 June 2017 332 days
Nela Kuburović  Serbia Europe 11 August 2016 28 October 2020 4 years, 78 days
Milda Vainiutė  Lithuania Europe 13 December 2016 6 March 2018 1 year, 83 days
Sigríður Á. Andersen  Iceland Europe 11 January 2017 14 March 2019 2 years, 62 days
Sally Yates  United States North America 20 January 2017 30 January 2017 10 days
Gloria Akuffo  Ghana Africa 21 January 2017 6 January 2021 3 years, 351 days
Maria Pavlova  Bulgaria Europe 27 January 2017 4 May 2017 97 days
Ana Birchall  Romania Europe 9 February 2017 23 February 2017 14 days
Tsetska Tsacheva  Bulgaria Europe 4 May 2017 5 April 2019 1 year, 336 days
Rosana Alvarado  Ecuador South America 24 May 2017 23 August 2018 1 year, 91 days
Nicole Belloubet  France Europe 21 June 2017 6 July 2020 3 years, 15 days
Yōko Kamikawa  Japan Asia 3 August 2017 2 October 2018 1 year, 60 days
Thalatha Atukorale  Sri Lanka Asia 25 August 2017 4 August 2020 2 years, 345 days
Etilda Gjonaj  Albania Europe 11 September 2017 18 September 2021 4 years, 7 days
Karla Cuevas  Honduras North America 16 January 2018 22 January 2021 3 years, 6 days
Sylvi Listhaug  Norway Europe 17 January 2018 20 March 2018 62 days
Katarina Barley  Germany Europe 14 March 2018 27 June 2019 1 year, 105 days
Marcia González Aguiluz  Costa Rica North America 8 May 2018 7 February 2020 1 year, 275 days
María Consuelo Porras  Guatemala North America 17 May 2018 Incumbent 5 years, 315 days
Dolores Delgado  Spain Europe 7 June 2018 13 January 2020 1 year, 220 days
Priscilla Schwartz  Sierra Leone Africa 11 June 2018 7 July 2020 2 years, 26 days
Taťána Malá  Czech Republic Europe 28 June 2018 10 July 2018 12 days
Gloria María Borrero  Colombia South America 7 August 2018 16 May 2019 282 days
Andreja Katič  Slovenia Europe 13 September 2018 13 March 2020 1 year, 182 days
Karin Keller-Sutter   Switzerland Europe 1 January 2019 31 December 2022 3 years, 364 days
Þórdís Kolbrún R. Gylfadóttir  Iceland Europe 14 March 2019 5 September 2019 175 days
Anna-Maja Henriksson  Finland Europe 6 June 2019 20 June 2023 4 years, 14 days
Margarita Cabello Blanco  Colombia South America 11 June 2019 17 August 2020 1 year, 72 days
Christine Lambrecht  Germany Europe 27 June 2019 8 December 2021 2 years, 164 days
Cecilia Chacón Castillo  Ecuador South America 3 July 2019 24 May 2021 1 year, 325 days
Judit Varga  Hungary Europe 12 July 2019 31 July 2023 4 years, 19 days
Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir  Iceland Europe 6 September 2019 28 November 2021 2 years, 83 days
Masako Mori  Japan Asia 31 October 2019 16 September 2020 321 days
Marcela Losardo  Argentina South America 10 December 2019 29 March 2021 1 year, 109 days
Choo Mi-ae  South Korea Asia 2 January 2020 27 January 2021 1 year, 25 days
Alma Zadić  Austria Europe 7 January 2020 Incumbent 4 years, 80 days
Marie-Claude Najm  Lebanon Asia 21 January 2020 10 September 2021 1 year, 232 days
Monica Mæland  Norway Europe 24 January 2020 14 October 2021 1 year, 263 days
Albulena Haxhiu  Kosovo Europe 3 February 2020 3 June 2020 121 days
Suella Braverman  United Kingdom Europe 13 February 2020 6 September 2022 2 years, 205 days
Fiorella Salazar Rojas  Costa Rica North America 14 February 2020 Incumbent 4 years, 42 days
Shiva Maya Tumbahamphe    Nepal Asia 17 February 2020 25 December 2020 312 days
Lilijana Kozlovič  Slovenia Europe 13 March 2020 27 May 2021 1 year, 75 days
Mária Kolíková  Slovakia Europe 21 March 2020 13 September 2022 2 years, 176 days
Helen McEntee  Ireland Europe 27 June 2020 27 April 2021 304 days
Jeanine Nibizi  Burundi Africa 28 June 2020 3 years, 274 days
Yōko Kamikawa  Japan Asia 16 September 2020 4 October 2021 1 year, 18 days
Maja Popović  Serbia Europe 28 October 2020 Incumbent 3 years, 151 days
Ewelina Dobrowolska  Lithuania Europe 7 December 2020 Incumbent 3 years, 111 days
Dia Forrester  Grenada North America 1 January 2021 1 July 2022 1 year, 181 days
Maris Lauri  Estonia Europe 26 January 2021 18 July 2022 1 year, 173 days
Marta Cartabia  Italy Europe 13 February 2021 22 October 2022 1 year, 251 days
Albulena Haxhiu  Kosovo Europe 22 March 2021 Incumbent 3 years, 5 days
Graziella Marok-Wachter  Liechtenstein Europe 25 March 2021 Incumbent 3 years, 2 days
Michaelia Cash  Australia Oceania 30 March 2021 23 May 2022 1 year, 54 days
Heather Humphreys  Ireland Europe 27 April 2021 1 November 2021 188 days
Bernarda Ordóñez Moscoso  Ecuador South America 24 May 2021 5 May 2022 346 days
Pilar Llop  Spain Europe 12 July 2021 21 November 2023 2 years, 132 days
Leïla Jaffel  Tunisia Africa 11 October 2021 Incumbent 2 years, 168 days
Emilie Mehl  Norway Europe 14 October 2021 Incumbent 2 years, 165 days
Helen McEntee  Ireland Europe 1 November 2021 25 November 2022 1 year, 24 days
Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius
 Netherlands Europe 10 January 2022 Incumbent 2 years, 77 days
Marcela Ríos  Chile South America 11 March 2022 7 January 2023 302 days
Catarina Sarmento e Castro  Portugal Europe 30 March 2022 Incumbent 1 year, 363 days
Paola Flores Jaramillo  Ecuador South America 5 May 2022 Incumbent 1 year, 327 days
Dominika Švarc Pipan  Slovenia Europe 1 June 2022 Incumbent 1 year, 300 days
Kiri Allan  New Zealand Oceania 14 June 2022 24 July 2023 1 year, 40 days
Claudette Joseph  Grenada North America 1 July 2022 Incumbent 1 year, 270 days
Lea Danilson-Järg  Estonia Europe 18 July 2022 17 April 2023 273 days
Heather Humphreys  Ireland Europe 26 November 2022 17 December 2022 21 days
Inese Lībiņa-Egnere  Latvia Europe 14 December 2022 Incumbent 1 year, 104 days
Élisabeth Baume-Schneider   Switzerland Europe 1 January 2023 31 December 2023 364 days
He Rong  China Asia 24 February 2023 Incumbent 1 year, 32 days
Ester Molné Soldevila  Andorra Europe 17 May 2023 Incumbent 315 days
Guðrún Hafsteinsdóttir  Iceland Europe 19 June 2023 Incumbent 282 days
Leena Meri  Finland Europe 20 June 2023 Incumbent 281 days
Ginny Andersen  New Zealand Oceania 24 July 2023 27 November 2023 126 days

Dependent territories, constituent states, autonomous regions, and supra-national unions

  Denotes incumbent justice minister or attorney general
  • Italics denotes an acting justice minister and of defunct states/territories/regions
Name Image Jurisdiction Continent Mandate start Mandate end Term length
Anne X. Alpern
Pennsylvania Attorney General
 Pennsylvania North America 20 January 1959 28 August 1961 2 years, 220 days
Paula F. Beaubrun
11th Attorney General of the British Virgin Islands
 British Virgin Islands North America 17 July 1972 25 July 1977 3 years, 8 days
Velma I. Hamilton-Gayle
Attorney General of the British Virgin Islands
 British Virgin Islands North America 28 November 1978 10 October 1979 316 days
Sandra M.H. DeSilva
Attorney General of the British Virgin Islands
 British Virgin Islands North America 1979 1982 3 years, 0 days
Attorney General of Rhode Island
 Rhode Island North America 1985 1987 2 years, 0 days
Corinne Watanabe
7th Attorney General of Hawaii
 Hawaii North America 1985 1986 1 year, 0 days
Mary Sue Terry
36th Attorney General of Virginia
 Virginia North America 11 January 1986 28 January 1993 7 years, 17 days
Grace Berg Schaible
20th Attorney General of Alaska
 Alaska North America 1987 1989 2 years, 0 days
Clarine Nardi Riddle
22nd Attorney General of Connecticut
 Connecticut North America 3 January 1989 9 January 1991 2 years, 6 days
Attorney General of Nevada
 Nevada North America 7 January 1991 6 January 2003 11 years, 364 days
Bonnie Campbell
32nd Attorney General of Iowa
 Iowa North America 11 January 1991 6 January 1995 3 years, 360 days
Susan B. Loving
15th Attorney General of Oklahoma
 Oklahoma North America 22 June 1991 9 January 1995 3 years, 202 days
Dancia Penn
Attorney General of the British Virgin Islands
 British Virgin Islands North America 1 October 1992 1 November 1999 7 years, 31 days
Jan Wade
50th Attorney-General of Victoria
 Victoria Australia 6 October 1992 19 October 1999 7 years, 13 days
Heidi Heitkamp
28th Attorney General of North Dakota
 North Dakota North America 15 December 1992 15 December 2000 8 years, 0 days
Attorney General of Washington
 Washington North America 13 January 1993 12 January 2005 11 years, 365 days
Pamela Carter
38th Indiana Attorney General
 Indiana North America 13 January 1993 16 January 1997 4 years, 3 days
Attorney General of Utah
 Utah North America January 1993 January 2001 8 years, 0 days
Cheryl Edwardes
34th Attorney-General of Western Australia
 Western Australia Australia 2 February 1993 21 December 1995 2 years, 308 days
Minister of Justice and Attorney General
of Manitoba
 Manitoba North America 10 September 1993 6 January 1997 3 years, 88 days
Deborah Poritz
50th Attorney General of New Jersey
 New Jersey North America 1994 1996 2 years, 0 days
M. Jane Brady
42nd Attorney General of Delaware
 Delaware North America 3 January 1995 7 December 2005 10 years, 338 days
Betty Montgomery
45th Attorney General of Ohio
 Ohio North America 6 January 1995 5 January 2003 7 years, 364 days
Carla Stovall
40th Kansas Attorney General
 Kansas North America 9 January 1995 13 January 2003 8 years, 4 days
Margery Bronster
10th Attorney General of Hawaii
 Hawaii North America 1995 1999 4 years, 0 days
Joan Sheldon
Attorney-General of Western Australia
 Western Australia Australia 19 February 1996 26 February 1996 7 days
Linda Goupil
14th Minister of Justice of Quebec
 Quebec North America 15 December 1998 8 March 2001 2 years, 83 days
Lois Browne-Evans
Attorney General of Bermuda
 Bermuda North America 1999 ? ?
Jennifer Granholm
51st Attorney General of Michigan
 Michigan North America 1 January 1999 1 January 2003 4 years, 0 days
Patricia A. Madrid
29th Attorney General of New Mexico
 New Mexico North America 1 January 1999 1 January 2007 8 years, 0 days
Secretary for Administration
and Justice of Macau
 Macau Asia 20 December 1999 20 December 2014 15 years, 0 days
Attorney General of Indiana
 Indiana North America 8 June 2000 14 January 2001 190 days
Gale Norton
35th Attorney General of Colorado
 Colorado North America 31 January 2001 31 March 2006 5 years, 59 days
Elish Angiolini
Solicitor General for Scotland
 Scotland Europe 28 November 2001 12 October 2006 4 years, 318 days
Judy Jackson
Attorney-General of Tasmania
 Tasmania Australia 9 August 2002 5 April 2006 3 years, 239 days
Ramona Villagomez Manglona
Attorney General of the Northern Mariana Islands
 Northern Mariana Islands Asia November 2002 May 2003 181 days
Attorney General of Wisconsin
 Wisconsin North America 3 January 2003 3 January 2007 4 years, 0 days
Lisa Madigan
41st Attorney General of Illinois
 Illinois North America 13 January 2003 14 January 2019 16 years, 1 day
Minister of Justice in Scotland
 Scotland Europe 20 May 2003 16 May 2007 3 years, 361 days
Attorney General of New Hampshire
 New Hampshire North America 15 June 2004 17 July 2009 5 years, 32 days
 Virginia North America 1 February 2005 14 January 2006 347 days
Linda Lavarch
Attorney-General of Western Australia
 Western Australia Australia 28 July 2005 18 October 2006 1 year, 82 days
Zulima Farber
55th Attorney General of New Jersey
 New Jersey North America 30 January 2006 31 August 2006 213 days
Elish Angiolini
Lord Advocate
 Scotland Europe 12 October 2006 30 April 2011 4 years, 200 days
Catherine Cortez Masto
32nd Attorney General of Nevada
 Nevada North America 1 January 2007 5 January 2015 8 years, 4 days
Solicitor General of New York
 New York North America 1 January 2007 Incumbent 17 years, 86 days
Lori Swanson
29th Attorney General of Minnesota
 Minnesota North America 2 January 2007 7 January 2019 12 years, 4 days
Alicia Limtiaco
10th Attorney General of Guam
 Guam Oceania 3 January 2007 21 June 2010 3 years, 169 days
Martha Coakley
58th Attorney General of Massachusetts
 Massachusetts North America 17 January 2007 21 January 2015 8 years, 4 days
Kathleen Ayensu
23rd Attorney General of the British Virgin Islands
 British Virgin Islands North America 24 June 2007 24 June 2010 3 years, 0 days
Patricia Scotland
Attorney General for England and Wales &
Attorney General for Northern Ireland
 England  Wales
 Northern Ireland
Europe 28 June 2007 12 April 2010 2 years, 288 days
Anne Milgram
57th Attorney General of New Jersey
 New Jersey North America 29 June 2007 18 January 2010 2 years, 203 days
Attorney General of Alberta
 Alberta North America 13 March 2008 18 February 2012 3 years, 342 days
Attorney General of Ohio
 Ohio North America 28 May 2008 8 January 2009 225 days
Lara Giddings
Attorney-General of Tasmania
 Tasmania Australia 17 September 2008 24 January 2011 2 years, 129 days
Kathleen Weil
Minister of Justice of Quebec
 Quebec Europe 18 December 2008 11 August 2010 1 year, 236 days
Janet Mills
55th Attorney General of Maine
 Maine North America 6 January 2009 6 January 2011 2 years, 0 days
Paula Dow
58th New Jersey Attorney General
 New Jersey North America 18 January 2010 10 January 2012 1 year, 357 days
European Commissioner for Justice,
Fundamental Rights and Citizenship
 European Union Europe 9 February 2010 1 July 2014 4 years, 142 days
Marie-Claude Blais
Minister of Justice and
Attorney General of New Brunswick
 New Brunswick North America 12 October 2010 19 September 2013 3 years, 7 days
Kamala Harris
32nd Attorney General of California
 California North America 3 January 2011 3 January 2017 6 years, 0 days
Attorney General of Florida
 Florida North America 4 January 2011 8 January 2019 8 years, 4 days
Lesley Thomson
Solicitor General for Scotland
 Scotland Europe 19 May 2011 1 June 2016 5 years, 13 days
Linda Kelly
47th Attorney General of Pennsylvania
 Pennsylvania North America 27 May 2011 15 January 2013 1 year, 233 days
Shirley Bond
Attorney General of British Columbia
 British Columbia North America 18 August 2011 10 June 2013 1 year, 296 days
Ellen Rosenblum
17th Oregon Attorney General
 Oregon North America 29 June 2012 Incumbent 11 years, 272 days
Janet Mills
57th Attorney General of Maine
 Maine North America 7 January 2013 2 January 2019 5 years, 359 days
Kathleen Kane
48th Attorney General of Pennsylvania
 Pennsylvania North America 15 January 2013 17 August 2016 3 years, 215 days
Suzanne Anton
Attorney General of British Columbia
 British Columbia North America 10 June 2013 12 June 2017 4 years, 2 days
Lena Diab
Minister of Justice and
Attorney General of Nova Scotia
 Nova Scotia North America 22 October 2013 24 July 2015 1 year, 275 days
Vanessa Goodwin
Attorney-General of Tasmania
 Tasmania Australia 31 March 2014 2 October 2017 3 years, 185 days
Stéphanie Vallée
Minister of Justice of Quebec
 Quebec North America 23 April 2014 18 October 2018 4 years, 178 days
European Commissioner for Justice,
Consumers and Gender Equality
 European Union Europe 1 November 2014 30 November 2019 5 years, 29 days
Secretariat for Administration and Justice
 Macau Asia 20 December 2014 19 December 2019 4 years, 364 days
Cynthia Coffman
38th Attorney General of Colorado
 Colorado North America 12 January 2015 8 January 2019 3 years, 360 days
Leslie Rutledge
56th Arkansas Attorney General
 Arkansas North America 13 January 2015 10 January 2023 7 years, 362 days
Maura Healey
59th Massachusetts Attorney General
 Massachusetts North America 21 January 2015 5 January 2023 7 years, 349 days
Yvette D'Ath
Attorney-General of Western Australia
 Western Australia Australia 16 February 2015 12 November 2020 5 years, 270 days
18 May 2023 Incumbent 314 days
Gabrielle Upton
55th Attorney General of New South Wales
 New South Wales Australia 2 April 2015 30 January 2017 1 year, 303 days
Kathleen Ganley
27th Minister of Justice
and Attorney General of Alberta
 Alberta North America 24 May 2015 30 April 2019 3 years, 341 days
Gabriela Bravo
Minister of Justice, Interior and Public Administration
 Valencia Europe 30 June 2015 19 July 2023 8 years, 19 days
Diana Whalen
Minister of Justice
and Attorney General of Nova Scotia
 Nova Scotia North America 24 July 2015 30 May 2017 1 year, 310 days
Minister of Justice and
Attorney General of Manitoba
 Manitoba North America 3 May 2016 1 August 2018 2 years, 90 days
Claire Sugden
2nd Minister of Justice of Northern Ireland
 Northern Ireland Europe 25 May 2016 2 March 2017 281 days
Alison Di Rollo
Solicitor General for Scotland
 Scotland Europe 1 June 2016 22 June 2021 5 years, 21 days
Jahna Lindemuth
31st Attorney General of Alaska
 Alaska North America 8 August 2016 5 December 2018 3 years, 119 days
Tracy-Anne McPhee
Minister of Justice of Yukon
 Yukon North America 3 December 2016 14 January 2023 6 years, 42 days
Kathleen Kenealy
Acting Attorney General of California
 California North America 3 January 2017 24 January 2017 21 days
Cara Rodriguez
Acting Attorney General of Oklahoma
 Oklahoma North America 17 February 2017 20 February 2017 3 days
Teresa Cheng
4th Secretary for Justice of Hong Kong
 Hong Kong Asia 6 January 2018 30 June 2022 4 years, 175 days
Vickie Chapman
50th Attorney-General of South Australia
 South Australia Australia 19 March 2018 22 November 2021 3 years, 248 days
Elise Archer
Attorney-General of Tasmania
 Tasmania Australia 21 March 2018 28 September 2023 5 years, 191 days
Barbara Underwood
66th Attorney General of New York
 New York North America 8 May 2018 31 December 2018 237 days
Rose Toki-Brown
Minister of Justice
 Cook Islands Oceania 10 July 2018 2 June 2021 2 years, 327 days
Sonia LeBel
Minister of Justice of Quebec
 Quebec North America 18 October 2018 22 June 2020 1 year, 248 days
Andrea Anderson-Mason
Minister of Justice and
Attorney General of New Brunswick
 New Brunswick North America 9 November 2018 20 September 2020 1 year, 306 days
Jill Hennessy
54th Attorney-General of Victoria
 Victoria Australia 29 November 2018 16 December 2020 2 years, 17 days
Kathy Jennings
46th Attorney General of Delaware
 Delaware North America 1 January 2019 Incumbent 5 years, 86 days
Dana Nessel
54th Attorney General of Michigan
 Michigan North America 1 January 2019 Incumbent 5 years, 86 days
Letitia James
67th Attorney General of New York
 New York North America 1 January 2019 Incumbent 5 years, 86 days
Clare E. Connors
16th Attorney General of Hawaii
 Hawaii North America 3 January 2019 10 December 2021 2 years, 341 days
Attorney General of Florida
 Florida North America 8 January 2019 Incumbent 5 years, 79 days
Attorney General of Wyoming
 Wyoming North America 15 March 2019 Incumbent 5 years, 12 days
Caroline Wawzonek
Minister of Justice in the Northwest Territories
 Northwest Territories North America 1 October 2019 8 November 2021 2 years, 38 days
Naomi Long
3rd Minister of Justice of Northern Ireland
 Northern Ireland Europe 11 January 2020 7 October 2022 2 years, 269 days
Attorney General of Mississippi
 Mississippi North America 14 January 2020 Incumbent 4 years, 73 days
Mitzie Jessop Taase
Acting Attorney General of American Samoa
 American Samoa North America 19 February 2020 21 January 2021 337 days
Dawn Smith
27th Attorney General of the British Virgin Islands
 British Virgin Islands North America 1 October 2020 Incumbent 3 years, 178 days
Shannon Fentiman
Attorney-General of Queensland
 Queensland Australia 13 November 2020 17 May 2023 2 years, 185 days
Jaclyn Symes
55th Attorney-General of Victoria
 Victoria Australia 22 December 2020 Incumbent 3 years, 96 days
Ruth Charteris
Solicitor General for Scotland
 Scotland Europe 22 June 2021 Incumbent 2 years, 279 days
Holly Shikada
17th Attorney General of Hawaii
 Hawaii North America 10 December 2021 5 December 2022 360 days
Angela Constance
Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Home Affairs
 Scotland Europe 29 March 2023 Incumbent 364 days
Elisa Núñez Sánchez
Minister of Justice, Interior and Public Administration
 Valencia Europe 19 July 2023 Incumbent 252 days

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