Doris Sands Johnson
Bahamian teacher, suffragette, and politician · Bahamas · On the map · Politicians · Lived 1921 to 1983 · aged 62
Dame Doris Sands Johnson was a Bahamian teacher, suffragette, and politician. She was the first Bahamian woman to contest an election in the Bahamas, the first female Senate appointee, and the first woman granted a leadership role in the Senate.
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Once in the legislature, she was the first woman to be made a government minister and then was elected as the first woman President of the Senate. She was honored as Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II.
