Semiha Borovac

Semiha Borovac (born 2 March 1955) is a Bosnian politician who served as the mayor of Sarajevo, holding office from 2005 until 2009. She is Sarajevo's only female mayor to date and is also a member of the Party of Democratic Action. Currently, Boravac is the Minister for Human Rights and Refugees.

Borovac served as mayor of Sarajevo from 2005 until 2009.

She was elected Minister for Human Rights and Refugees on 13 March 2015. Within her first year in office, Borovac met with refugee families across Bosnia and Herzegovina. On 26 January 2016, Borovac signed an agreement with mayors from cities throughout the country and ministers of both entities, promising to have 438 homes built for families displaced by the Bosnian War of the 1990s.

Borovac attended first the "Ahmet Fetahagić" elementary school and then the "Druga Gimnazija" secondary school in Sarajevo. She went on to university, graduating from the Sarajevo Law School in 1977 and qualifying as a judge in 2000. In 2001 she also qualified as a trainer with the Citizens' Association for Local Development Initiative.

• 1977-1982: Regular collaborators at Trade Union of Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 1982-1986: Administrative inspectors at Community New Sarajevo
• 1986-1990: Secretary of Associated Labor Council at SO New Sarajevo
• 1990-1992: Deputy of secretary SO New Sarajevo
• 1992-1995: Deputy of secretary IO New Sarajevo
• 1996: Head of chief’s office for Community New Sarajevo
• 1996-2000: Assistant minister of justice of the Sarajevo Canton
• 1998-2000: Proxy at the House of Representatives of Parliament of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH)
• 2000-2005: Delegate at the Congress of Canton Sarajevo, Delegate at the House of Nations of Parliament of FBiH, President of the Bosniaks’ Club at the House of Nations of Parliament of FBiH
• 2005: During Constitutional Conference of Municipal Council of Sarajevo, is elected on 14 June 2005 to be mayor of Sarajevo (the first female mayor in the history of Sarajevo)

• 2000: Secretary of Cantonal Committee of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Sarajevo
• 2001: Presiding over III Congress of SDA BiH
• 2001: Member of the Commission for Bylaw and Operating Procedure of SDA
• 2002: Member of the Group for Juristically Questions of the Council of SDA
• 2002: President of the Labor Presidency of the 1st Convention of SDA
• 2005: Presiding over IV Congress of SDA

Borovac is married with two daughters.