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Janet Mills
Janet Mills


Janet Mills assumed office as governor of Maine on Jan. 2, 2019, the first woman elected governor of that state. Mills was born on December 30, 1947, in Farmington, Maine. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Maine School of Law. Mills served as an assistant attorney from 1976-1980, and then as a district attorney from 1980-1995. She served in Maine's House of Representatives from 2002-2009. She served as Maine's attorney general from 2009-2011 and from 2013-2019, […]
Janet A Napolitano
Janet A Napolitano


Janet Napolitano has served as president of the University of California system from 2013 to 2020. Previously, she served as U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security from 2009 to 2013, the first woman to hold that post. Napolitano was born in New York City on November 29, 1957, and grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She earned a Bachelor of Science in political science from Santa Clara University in 1979, where she was the university's first female valedictorian, and received her Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law […]
Lori Swanson
Lori Swanson


Lori Swanson served as the attorney general of Minnesota from 2007 to 2019, the first women to serve in that position in Minnesota. She was 2018 Democratic candidate for Minnesota governor, but lost in the primary. Swanson was born on December 16, 1966. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Juris Doctor from William Mitchell College of Law in Saint Paul. Before serving in public office, Swanson was an attorney in private practice. From 1999 to 2002, she served as Minnesota's deputy attorney […]