Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Debra Todd made history when she was sworn in on January 20, 2023 as the state’s 58th Chief Justice. She is the first woman installed as chief in the court’s 300-year history…
Japanese actress turned politician Chikage Ogi held several important positions during her 30-year long political career. Her experience led to her role as the first female President of the House Continue Reading
Barbara Everitt Bryant was an American market researcher who became the first woman to head the United States Census Bureau. She made history by breaking the glass ceiling after 200 years of men leading the national head count that is used to determine political representation, beginning with then-Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson in 1790…
Betty Boothroyd, Baroness Boothroyd, of Sandwell in the County of West Midlands, was a British politician who served as a member of Parliament. She was first elected to represent West Bromwich in 1973 and, after the constituency split the following year, represented West Bromwich West until 2000…
Environmentalist, activist, and former political candidate Marquita Bradshaw was the Democratic nominee in the 2020 United States Senate election in Tennessee. She was the first Black woman to win a major political party nomination in any statewide race in Tennessee…
Admiral Michelle Howard is the first female United States military officer to ever become a four-star admiral in the U.S. Navy. That same day, July 1, 2014, she was also appointed the 38th Vice-Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), making her the second highest-ranking officer in the U.S. Navy and the first woman in such an honorable position…
When Ella Tambussi Grasso ran for governor of Connecticut in 1974, she had not lost an election since she was first voted into the state’s General Assembly in 1952. She served as the 83rd Governor of Connecticut from January 8, 1975, to December 31, 1980, after rejecting past offers of candidacies for senate and governor…
Geraldine Ferraro, an American Democratic politician, served in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1985. She made history as the first woman to be nominated for vice president by a major political party in the United States, serving as Walter Mondale’s running mate in the 1984 presidential election…
Former Democratic U.S. Senator Carol Moseley Braun represented Illinois in the Senate from 1993 to 1999. Prior to her Senate tenure, Moseley Braun was a member of the Illinois House Continue Reading
Bella Abzug was a U.S. congresswoman and lawyer who founded several liberal political organizations, supported women’s rights, and strongly opposed the Vietnam War. Nicknamed “Battling Bella,” she was known as Continue Reading
