Bríd Rodgers (née Stratford; born 20 February 1935) is an Irish nationalist former politician.
Rodgers was educated in Monaghan and University College Dublin (UCD), and has lived in Northern Ireland since 1960.
[2][3] Rodgers was the leader of the SDLP team in the talks that led to the Good Friday Agreement.
She was appointed to the first Northern Ireland Executive in November 1999 as Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development, the first woman ever appointed as a full-ranking Agriculture Minister anywhere in Ireland; she remained in that position until the suspension of the Executive in October 2002.
She stood down as MLA at the Assembly elections of November 2003, and as deputy leader in February 2004, when she was replaced by Alasdair McDonnell.