List of presidents of the Senate of the Bahamas

This is a list of presidents of the Senate of the Bahamas. The president is the presiding officer of the Senate of the Bahamas. Below is a list of office-holders:

Name	Entered office	Left office
Sir George W. K. Roberts	January 1964	June 1964
Sir Leonard J. Knowles, CBE^[1]^[2]	1964	1972
Sir Gerald Cash, GCMG, GCVO, OBE, JP^[3]	1972	1973
Dame Doris Louise Johnson^[4]	1973	1982
Edwin Coleby^[5]	1982	1992
John Henry Bostwick^[6]	1992	2002
Sharon R. Wilson^[4]^[7]	2002	2007
Lynn Holowesko^[4]	2007	2012
Sharon R. Wilson^[4]	2012	May 2017
Katherine Forbes-Smith^[8]^[9]	May 2017	December 2019
Mildred Hall-Watson^[10]^[9]	December 2019	October 2021
Lashell Adderley^[11]^[9]	October 2021	Incumbent

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