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Jhanna Sigurardttir is a former politician and the former Prime Minister of Iceland. She became active in the trade union movement, serving as an officer. Elected an MP from 1978 to 2013, she was appointed as Icelands Minister of Social Affairs and Social Security, serving from 19871994 and 20072009. She has been a member of the Althing for Reykjavk constituencies since 1978, winning reelection on eight successive occasions. She became Icelands first female Prime Minister and the worlds first openly lesbian head of government onFebruary 2009.

Jhanna was born in Reykjavk. Her father is Sigurur Egill Ingimundarson. She studied at the Commercial College of Iceland, a vocational high school operated by the Chamber of Commerce. After graduating with her commercial diploma in 1960, she worked as a flight attendant with Loftleiir and as an office worker.

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