Iris Collins

Iris Rhudella Collins-Williams (31 January 1915 – June 2001) was a Jamaican businesswoman and politician.

[1] She attended Westwood High School, graduating in 1929, after which she then studied at Business College in Kingston from 1930 to 1932.

[1] She subsequently worked as a stenographer for Desnoes & Geddes from 1933 to 1936, after which she became a produce dealer in Cambridge.

A member of the Jamaica Labour Party,[2] she contested the Saint James North Western constituency in the 1944 elections and defeated the incumbent MHA Allan Coombs,[3] becoming the first woman elected to the House of Representatives.

[4] During her term in the House, she was a member of the Education, Social Welfare, Agriculture, Lands and Commerce committees.