Switzerland
- Member of a citizens' council - Trudy Späth-Schweizer - 1958
- President of a Cantonal Parliament (of Geneva) - Emma Kammacher - 1965
- Member of the Swiss Council of States - Lise Girardin - 1971
- Member of the Swiss National Council - Nelly Wicky, Lilian Uchtenhagen, Hanny Thalmann, Liselotte Spreng, Hanna Sahlfeld, Martha Ribi, Gabrielle Nanchen, Josi Meier, Hedi Lang, Tilo Frey, Elisabeth Blunschy - 1971
- (Substitute) Judge of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court - Margrith Bigler-Eggenberger - 1972
- President of the Swiss National Council - Elisabeth Blunschy - 1977
- Member of a Cantonal Executive (of Zurich) - Hedi Lang - 1983
- Member of the Swiss Federal Council - Elisabeth Kopp - 1984
- Vice-President of the Swiss Confederation - Elisabeth Kopp - 1989
- President of the Swiss Council of States - Josi Meier - 1991
- President of the Swiss Confederation - Ruth Dreifuss - 1999
- Landammann of Uri - Gabi Huber - 2002
- Foreign minister and President of the Confederation (for 2007) - Micheline Calmy-Rey - since 2003
- Landammann of Nidwalden - Lisbeth Gabriel - 2005
- Economics minister and President of the Confederation (for 2010) - Doris Leuthard - since 2006
- Justice minister - Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf - since 2008
- Landammann of Glarus - Marianne Dürst - since 2008
- Member of the Conseil d'État of the canton of Valais - Esther Waeber Kalbermatten - since 2009
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Famous quotes containing the word switzerland:
“In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed—they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”
—Orson Welles (1915–84)
“I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)