Charlene Warren-Peu
{{Short description|Pitcairnese politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| image =
| honorific-prefix =
| name = Charlene Warren-Peu
| order = 5th
| office = Mayor of Pitcairn Islands
| monarch = Elizabeth II
Charles III
| governor = Laura Clarke
Iona Thomas
| term_start = 1 January 2020
| term_end = 31 December 2022
| predecessor = Shawn Christian
| successor = Simon Young
| office1 = Deputy Mayor of the Pitcairn Islands
| term_start1 = 1 January 2016
| term_end1 = 31 December 2019
| predecessor1 = Brenda Christian
| successor1 = Kevin Young
| office2 = Member of the Island Council
| term_start2 = 1 January 2014
| term_end2 = 31 December 2015
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1979|6|9|df=y}}
| birth_place = Adamstown, Pitcairn Islands
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Charlene Evelyn Dolly Warren-Peu (born 9 June 1979)[https://library.puc.edu/pitcairn/pitcairn/Pitcairners/WarrenAlice.shtml Who Are the Pitcairners?] Pitcairn Island Study Center is a Pitcairnese politician, who served as Mayor of the Pitcairn Islands from January 2020 to December 2022. She had previously served as Deputy Mayor from 2016 to 2019 and Member of the Island Council from 2014 to 2015.
Warren-Peu was the first woman to hold the position of mayor on a permanent basis.
Biography
Warren-Peu was born on Pitcairn to Carol and Jay Warren, and is an eighth-generation descendant of the Bounty mutineers that originally settled Pitcairn. Her mother was jointly one of the first women to sit on the Island Council, while her father was Magistrate of Pitcairn in 1991 and mayor from 2005 to 2007. Warren-Peu runs the island post office, manages a homestay for visitors, and produces honey with her husband Vaine Warren-Peu, a Cook Islander. The couple have five children.
Warren-Peu was elected to the Island Council in 2013.[https://web.archive.org/web/20140103232313/http://www.demtullpitcairn.com/2013October.pdf Election] Dem Tull, October 2013 She was elected Deputy Mayor in 2015 and re-elected to the post in 2017. In the 2019 general elections, she was elected mayor.[https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/117244576/charlene-warrenpeu-pitcairn-islands-first-female-mayor Charlene Warren-Peu, Pitcairn Island's first female mayor] Stuff, 7 November 2019
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Category:Pitcairn Islands women in politics
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