# Chief Guide

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In the [Guide Movement](/source/Girl_Guides), a **Chief Guide** is the uniformed head of a national Guiding organisation. [Olave Baden-Powell](/source/Olave_Baden-Powell), wife of [Robert Baden Powell](/source/Robert_Baden_Powell) became the first Chief Guide in 1918.[1][2]

## World Chief Guide

1930 - 1977 [Olave Baden-Powell](/source/Olave_Baden-Powell) (only holder of this post)

## UK Chief Guides

Years Chief Guide 1910 - 1916 Agnes Baden-Powell[contradictory] 1916 - 1930 Olave Baden-Powell 1930 - 1939 Mrs Percy Birley 1939 - 1942 Mrs St John Atkinson 1942 - 1949 Finola, Lady Somers 1949 - 1956 The Lady Stratheden and Campbell 1956 - 1966 Anstice Gibbs 1966 - 1975 Ann Parker Bowles 1975 - 1980 Sheila Walker 1980 - 1985 Lady Patience Baden-Powell 1985 - 1990 June Paterson-Brown 1990 - 1995 Jane Garside 1995 - 1996 Margaret Wright 1996 - 2001 Bridget Towle 2001 - 2006 Jenny Leach 2006 - 2011 Liz Burnley 2011 - 2016 Gill Slocombe 2016 - 2017 Valerie Le Vaillant[3] 2018 - 2023 Amanda Medler 2023 - present Tracy Foster

## Austria

- [Charlotte Teuber-Weckersdorf](/source/Charlotte_Teuber-Weckersdorf)

## Gambia

- [Rosamond Fowlis](/source/Rosamond_Fowlis)

## See also

- [Chief Scout (The Scout Association)](/source/Chief_Scout_(The_Scout_Association))

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-history_1-0)** ["History of Guiding"](https://web.archive.org/web/20090109072853/http://www.girlguiding.org.uk/xq/asp/sID.905/aID.275/qx/whoweare/article.asp). Archived from [the original](http://www.girlguiding.org.uk/xq/asp/sID.905/aID.275/qx/whoweare/article.asp) on 2009-01-09.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-spanglefish_2-0)** ["Olave, Lady Baden-Powell, G.B.E., World Chief Guide"](http://www.spanglefish.com/olavebadenpowell).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Leslie's Guiding History Site"](https://lesliesguidinghistory.webs.com/). *Leslie's Guiding History Site*. Retrieved 2019-07-17.

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