The Most Honorable Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller

FIRST AND ONLY WOMAN TO BE ELECTED TWICE PRIME MINISTER OF JAMAICA.

Minister of defense, Development Information and Sports.

The Most Honorable Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller also holds the seat of Minister of Defense, Development Information and Sports.

Portia Simpson Miller, the nation’s seventh Prime Minister, is the Nation’s First Black Female to be elected in the history of Jamaica. She was elected to her first term in March 2006 -2007. She was installed for the second time, on January 05, 2012. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Public Administration, an Honorary Doctorate from the Union Institute and University, Florida, and has participated in the Leaders in Development Executive Program at the JFK School of Government, Harvard University.

“Oh give thanks unto the Lord for He is good for His mercy endures forever”.

“The Lord is my strength and song and He has become my salvation”.

Simpson-Miller, in 2013, was elected Vice-President of Socialist International following a conference in Cape Town, South Africa

She has been listed in the Time Magazine list of 100 most influential people in 2012.

She is a member of the Council of Women World Leaders (an international network of current and former women presidents and prime ministers whose mission is to mobilize on women’s issues); vice president of the Organization of American States’ High-level Inter-American Network on Decentralization, Local Government and Citizen Participation; Chairperson of the Caribbean Forum of Ministers responsible for decentralization, local government, community development and citizen participation, and board member of the Commonwealth Local Government Forum. She has also been a member of the Board of Trustees of CIFAL in Atlanta, Georgia. March 2007, Mrs. Simpson Miller was awarded the International Olympic Committee’s World Women and Sport Trophy for her outstanding dedication to women in Jamaican sports.