Margaret Evangeline McDonald

Margaret Evangeline McDonald CVO CBE (April 1922 – 2001) was the first female Ambassador to the United States from the Bahamas, from 1985 until 1992.

[1] She was the first woman appointed Secretary to the Cabinet, in 1982.

[2] McDonald was born in Tarpum Bay, Eleuthera, in April 1922.

In 1948, she married the educator Luther Haldene McDonald.

[3] McDonald graduated from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.