List of elected or appointed female heads of state or government

This list includes women who were appointed by a governing committee or parliament where heads of state or government are not directly elected by citizens. The list does not include women chosen by a hereditary monarch. Interim heads of state or government are listed in italics. Elected or appointed acting/interim female chief executives This list includes women elected or appointed in an acting capacity, wherein they assumed a vacated office on a temporary basis. == Female members of collective head-of-state bodies ==

==Female viceregal representatives==

Below are women who have been appointed representatives of heads of state, such as female governors-general and French representatives of Andorra. As governors-general are appointed representatives of the monarch of the Commonwealth realms (currently ) and the French Representatives of Andorra are appointed representatives of the French Co-Prince of Andorra (currently Emmanuel Macron), they act as heads of state and carry out on a regular basis the functions and duties associated with such a role in the Commonwealth realms (excluding the United Kingdom, which has no governor-general, as the monarch of the Commonwealth realms primarily resides there) and Andorra, respectively. Acting female viceregal representatives This list includes women appointed as viceregal representatives in an acting capacity, wherein they assumed a vacated office on a temporary basis under the terms of a dormant comission. ==See also==