Ireland
- High Queen of Ireland - Macha Mong Ruad - LGE 4th/3rd century BC - FFE 468-461 BC - AFM 661-654 BC
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Teachta Dála (Member of Parliament) - Constance Markievicz - 1918
Irish Republic:
- Minister for Labour - Constance Markievicz - 1919
Irish Free State:
- Senator - Eileen Costello, Alice Stopford Green, Ellen Cuffe and Jennie Wyse Power - 1922
Republic of Ireland:
- Lord Mayor of Dublin - Kathleen Clarke - 1939
- Lord Mayor of Cork - Jane Dowdall - 1959
- Department of state Secretary-General - Thekla Beere - 1959
- Council of State Member - Honor Crowley - 1964
- Minister of State - Máire Geoghegan-Quinn - 1977
- Member of the European Parliament - Eileen Desmond and Síle de Valera - 1979
- Minister for the Gaeltacht - Máire Geoghegan-Quinn - 1979
- Minister for Health and Social Welfare - Eileen Desmond - 1981
- Minister for Education - Gemma Hussey - 1982
- President - Mary Robinson - 1990
- Minister for Tourism, Transport and Communications - Máire Geoghegan-Quinn - 1992
- Minister for Justice - Máire Geoghegan-Quinn - 1993
- Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) - Mary Harney - 1997
- Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment - Mary Harney - 1997
- Minister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands - Síle de Valera - 1997
- Minister for Agriculture and Food - Mary Coughlan - 2002
- Government Chief Whip - Mary Hanafin - 2002
- Permanent Representative to the United Nations - Anne Anderson - 2009
- European Commissioner - Máire Geoghegan-Quinn - 2009
- Minister for Children and Youth Affairs - Frances Fitzgerald - 2001
- Attorney General - Máire Whelan - 2011
- Chief Justice - Susan Denham - 2011
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