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Articles/Modern Rotary, 2000-present

First Women RI Directors

Date
2008 – 2022
Type
biography
Era
Modern Rotary, 2000-present

The First Women RI Directors

First Women in RI and TRF board

Table listing Rotary International women directors by name, country, years served, board position, and comments, from Catherine Noyer Riveau (2008-2010) through Aikaterini Kotsali-Papadimitriou (2020-2022)
Catherine Noyer-Riveau, of Paris, France, Zone 11 The first woman to be elected to the RI board of directors. 2008/10
Catherine Noyer-Riveau, of Paris, France, Zone 11. The first woman to be elected to the RI board of directors. 2008/10
A woman in a purple blazer smiles and points upward, standing before a Rotary International wheel emblem backdrop
The second RI woman director 2011/13 is Betsy Demaray, Rotary Club of Sault Ste. Marie, MI, District 6290. Betsy also served as RI Treasurer for 2012/13 Betsy was an RGHF member. Deceased 25 January 2013.
Portrait of a woman with short red hair and glasses, wearing a black patterned jacket
Ann Britt Åsebol is a member of the Swedish Parliament, and the thierd RI Director for 2012-14. Chair of the Executive Committee 2013/14 (RGHF Member)
Portrait photo of a woman with short blonde hair, wearing a dark blazer, smiling for the camera
In May 2010, Anne Matthews, PDG District 7770, South Carolina, USA, was nominated by RIPE Ray Klinginsmith and elected by the RI Board to serve as the second woman member of The Rotary Foundation Board of Trustees.

In September 2010, Anne was elected by the Zone 33 Nominations Committee to serve as Rotary International as the third woman Director. Anne is from Zones 33 and 34, effective July 1, 2012. RI VP 2013/14 (RGHF Member)

Catherine Noyer-Riveau, smiling in a formal jacket, the first female RI board director, elected in 2008
Celia Giay RID 13/15. First woman director from South America. RIVP 14/15 (RGHF member)