Rome Italia Johnson is a Bahamian former insurance executive who served as the Speaker of the
Bahamas House of Assembly from April 1997 until May 2002.
Also called Speaker, not President, she was the first female to serve in that position.
She was born 1 August 1954 in Nassau. She went to University of Miami and Georgetown University in Washington.
From 1977 until 1992 she worked in the insurance industry and she was the first female President of the Life Underwriters Association of the Bahamas.
She is a member of
Free National Movement
The Free National Movement (abbreviated FNM) is a political party in the Bahamas formed in the early 1970s and led by Sir Cecil Wallace-Whitfield. The current leader of the party is Michael Pintard and the current deputy leader is Shanendon C ...
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Speakers of the House of Assembly of the Bahamas
20th-century Bahamian women politicians
20th-century Bahamian politicians
Women legislative speakers
Living people
Businesspeople in insurance
1954 births
Free National Movement politicians
People from Nassau, Bahamas
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