Ellen Johnson Sirleaf created history in 2005 African presidential election. She made the Liberia as the first African nation to have a female president. She started a peace movement; Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace which led her to the African presidential election in which she won.
In her career, she first served as Minister of Finance under President William Tolber. Then she left Liberia and worked as senior positions at various financial institutions. After serving there, she stood in the 1997 presidential election but was placed in a second position. Afterwards she served as head of the Governance Reform Commission in 2003 to set up the deal to end Liberia’s civil war. Finally in 2005 Presidential Elections, she was elected as President.
Her supporters also call her as “The Iron Lady”. During her election campaign she said she wanted to become president in order “to bring motherly sensitivity and emotion to the presidency” as a way of healing the wounds of war.