list of female Indian chief ministers
| No | Name | Portrait | State | Term(s) | Total tenure | Party | |
| 1 | Sucheta Kriplani | – | Uttar Pradesh | 2 October 1963 – 13 March 1967 | 1258 days | Indian National Congress | |
| 2 | Nandini Satpathy | – | Orissa | 14 June 1972 – 3 March 1973 6 March 1974 – 16 December 1976 |
1278 days | Indian National Congress | |
| 3 | Shashikala Kakodkar | – | Goa | 12 August 1973 – 27 April 1979 | 2084 days | Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party | |
| 4 | Syeda Anwara Taimur | – | Assam | 6 December 1980 – 30 June 1981 | 206 days | Indian National Congress | |
| 5 | Janaki Ramachandran | Tamil Nadu | 7–30 January 1988 | 23 days | All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | ||
| 6 | Jayalalithaa * | Tamil Nadu | 24 June 1991 – 12 May 1996 14 May 2001 – 21 September 2001 2 March 2002 – 12 May 2006 16 May 2011 – 29 September 2014 23 May 2015 – present |
4679 days | All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | ||
| 7 | Mayawati | Uttar Pradesh | 13 June 1995 – 18 October 1995 21 March 1997 – 21 September 1997 3 May 2002 – 29 August 2003 13 May 2007 – 7 March 2012 |
2554 days | Bahujan Samaj Party | ||
| 8 | Rajinder Kaur Bhattal | – | Punjab | 21 January 1996 – 12 February 1997 | 388 days | Indian National Congress | |
| 9 | Rabri Devi | Bihar | 25 July 1997 – 11 February 1999 9 March 1999 – 2 March 2000 11 March 2000 – 6 March 2005 |
2746 days | Rashtriya Janata Dal | ||
| 10 | Sushma Swaraj | Delhi | 13 October 1998 – 3 December 1998 | 51 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 11 | Sheila Dikshit | Delhi | 3 December 1998 – 8 December 2013 | 5484 days | Indian National Congress | ||
| 12 | Uma Bharati | Madhya Pradesh | 8 December 2003 – 23 August 2004 | 259 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 13 | Vasundhara Raje * | Rajasthan | 8 December 2003 – 11 December 2008 8 December 2013 – present |
2688 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 14 | Mamata Banerjee * | West Bengal | 20 May 2011 – present | 1796 days | All India Trinamool Congress | ||
| 15 | Anandiben Patel * | Gujarat | 21 May 2014 – present | 698 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 16 | Mehbooba Mufti * | Jammu and Kashmir | 4 April 2016 – present | 15 days | Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party | ||
Female Governor in india
| Name | From | To | State |
| Sarojini Naidu | 15 August 1947 | 2 March 1949 | Uttar Pradesh |
| Padmaja Naidu | 3 November 1956 | 31 May 1967 | West Bengal |
| Vijayalakshmi Pandit | 28 November 1962 | 18 October 1964 | Maharashtra |
| Sharda Mukherjee | 5 May 1977 | 14 August 1978 | Andhra Pradesh |
| Sharda Mukherjee | 14 August 1978 | 5 August 1983 | Gujarat |
| Kumudben Manishankar Joshi | 26 November 1985 | 2 February 1990 | Andhra Pradesh |
| Jyothi Venkatachalam | 14 October 1977 | 27 October 1982 | Kerala |
| Ram Dulari Sinha | 23 February 1988 | 12 February 1990 | Kerala |
| Sarla Grewal | 31 March 1989 | 5 February 1990 | Madhya Pradesh |
| Chandrawati | 19 February 1990 | 18 December 1990 | Puducherry |
| Rajendra Kumari Bajpai | 2 May 1995 | 22 April 1998 | Puducherry |
| Rajani Rai | 23 April 1998 | 29 July 2002 | Puducherry |
| Fathima Beevi | 25 January 1997 | 1 July 2001 | Tamil Nadu |
| Sheila Kaul | 17 November 1995 | 23 April 1996 | Himachal Pradesh |
| V. S. Ramadevi | 26 July 1997 | 1 December 1999 | Himachal Pradesh |
| V. S. Ramadevi | 2 December 1999 | 20 August 2002 | Karnataka |
| Pratibha Patil | 8 November 2004 | 23 June 2007 | Rajasthan |
| Prabha Rau | 19 July 2008 | 24 January 2010 | Himachal Pradesh |
| Prabha Rau | 25 January 2010 | 26 April 2010 | Rajasthan |
| Margaret Alva | 6 August 2009 | 14 May 2012 | Uttarakhand |
| Kamla Beniwal | 27 November 2009 | 6 July 2014 | Gujarat |
| Urmila Singh | 25 January 2010 | 27 January 2015 | Himachal Pradesh |
| Margaret Alva | 12 May 2012 | 7 August 2014 | Rajasthan |
| Sheila Dikshit | 11 March 2014 | 25 August 2014 | Kerala |
| Kamla Beniwal | 6 July 2014 | 6 August 2014 | Mizoram |
| Mridula Sinha | 31 August 2014 | Incumbent | Goa |
| Draupadi Murmu | 18 May 2015 | Incumbent | Jharkhand |