Milka Planinc

Milka Planinc was a Yugoslav politician from Croatia. She served as Prime Minister of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1982 to 1986, the first and only woman to hold this office. Planinc was the first female head of government in a diplomatically recognized Communist state, with the first in a partially recognized Communist country being Khertek Anchimaa-Toka of the Tuvan People's Republic, who was also the first female non-hereditary head of state . Planinc began to pursue a full-time career within the League of Communists of Croatia. She specialized in education, agitation, and propaganda, and in 1959 she was elected into the Croatian Central Committee, the executive body. She resided in Zagreb until her death on 7 October 2010, aged 85. She was interred at Mirogoj Cemetery.