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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.

References

1. ^ "Rome Johnson". Caribbean Elections. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
2. "Woman Named Speaker of The Bahamas House of Assembly". The Washington Informer. October 13, 2021. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
3. ^ "The Bahamas Government". 9 April 2002. Archived from the original on 2002-04-09.

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