Artemisia Lufkin

Minister Artemisia Lufkin (1754-1825) was a witch. A Hufflepuff in her Hogwarts years, Lufkin later became an accomplished Minister for Magic from 1798 to 1811, the first female ever to hodl the office and was elected at least twice.

Early life
Lufkin was born in 1754 somewhere in the British Isles to at least one magical parent. In her youth, she attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from around 1765 to 1772, where she was sorted into Hufflepuff.

Minister for Magic
In 1798, Lufkin rose to the position of Minister for Magic of Great Britain and Ireland, succeeding Unctuous Osbert, and became the first female ever to have held the office.

She established the Department of International Magical Cooperation and lobbied hard and successfully to have a Quidditch World Cup tournament held in Britain during her term.

She served as Minister for thirteen years, being succeeded in the post by Grogan Stump in 1811.

Death and post-mortem
Lufkin passed away in 1825, aged around 71. She was featured on a Chocolate Frog card by the 1990s.

On September 1, 1991, Prefect Gabriel Truman welcomed the Hufflepuff first years to the Hufflepuff Basement with a short speech in which he mentioned former Minister Artemisia Lufkin as one of the many notable Hogwarts students who had been sorted into Hufflepuff, like them.

Etymology
Artemisia is a feminine form of Artemisios, a Greek named derived from Artemis, the name of the Greek maiden goddess of hunting. Artemisia is also the name of a genus of plants that includes sagebrush and wormwood.

Artemisia Gentileschi was a pioneering Italian painter of the Baroque movement, the first woman to join the Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze, as well as one of the first to handle religious and historical subjects.

Lufkin is a pet form of the Middle English given name Love, which derived from either the Old English girl's name Lufu, meaning "love", or its masculine equivalent Lufa.