[4] In 2007, she was elected to parliament for the Montagu Constituency as a member of the Free National Movement (FNM) party and appointed Minister of State for Social Development.
[1] Butler served as Vice President of the Inter-American Commission of Women from 2009 to 2011, completing the term of Jeanette Carrillo Madrigal of Costa Rica who had resigned.
[9]) Finally, in December 2016, Butler-Turner was sworn in as the first woman leader of the opposition in the Bahamas history.
[10] Four days later, Butler came under fire from her predecessor, Hubert Minnis, who vowed to have her leadership rescinded.
[11][12] In April 2017, she was thrown out of the party and ran as an independent in the general election the following month.