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Barbara Roberts
Barbara Roberts


Barbara Roberts served as governor of Oregon from 1991-1995, the first woman to hold this position and the only one until the 2016 election of Kate Brown. Roberts was born on December 21, 1936, in Corvallis, Oregon. She became an advocate for special-needs children after the diagnosis of her son in 1962, and successfully lobbied the Oregon State Legislature to require public schools to guarantee educational rights to special-needs children in 1971. In 1973, Roberts was elected to Parkrose (Ore.) School Board. She also served as Multnomah County Commissioner in […]
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Cathy McMorris Rodgers


Cathy McMorris Rodgers assumed office January 2005, representing Washington's 5th District in the United States House of Representatives. McMorris Rodgers was born May 22, 1969, in Salem, Oregon. She graduated from Pensacola Christian College in Florida in 1990. In 2002, she received her Executive MBA from the University of Washington. McMorris Rodgers served in the Washington House of Representatives from 1994 to 2003, serving as house minority leader from 2002 to 2003.  She was the first woman to lead the House Caucus and the youngest woman since World War II. […]
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen


Ileana Ros-Lehtinen represented Florida's 18th District and then the 27th District in the United States House of Representatives from 1989-2019. Ros-Lehtinen was born July 15, 1952, in Havana, Cuba. She completed her Associate of Arts from Miami-Dade Community College in 1972 and received her Bachelor of Arts from Florida International University in 1987. Ros-Lehtinen was awarded a Master of Science from Florida International University of Miami in 1987 and a Doctorate of Education from the University of Miami in 2004. Ros-Lehtinen served as a member of the Florida State House […]
Deborah Ross
Deborah Ross


Deborah Ross assumed office as the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 2nd Congressional District on Jan. 3, 2021. She previously served in the North Carolina General Assembly from 2003-2013. Ross was born June 20, 1963. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University in 1985 and law degree from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1990. She is an attorney, business ethics consultant and senior lecturing fellow. She managed the ACLU of North Carolina for more than seven years. During her tenure in the North Carolina […]
Lucille Roybal-Allard
Lucille Roybal-Allard


Lucille Roybal-Allard served in the United States House of Representatives from 1993-2023. Roybal-Allard was the first Mexican American woman elected to Congress. She represented California's 33rd district from 1993-2003, the 34th district from 2003-2013, and the 40th district from 2013-2023. Roybal-Allard was born in Boyle Heights, California, on June 12, 1941. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from California State University in Los Angeles, California, in 1965. Prior to serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, Roybal-Allard was a public relations officer, fundraising executive, and member of the California […]
Kelda Roys
Kelda Roys


Kelda Roys has served as a member of the Wisconsin State Senate, representing District 26, since January 4, 2021. Roys previously served in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 2009-2013. She was a 2018 Democratic candidate for governor of Wisconsin. Roys was born in Marshfield, Wisconsin, on June 24, 1979. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from New York University and her Juris Doctor from University of Wisconsin, Madison. During and after law school, she worked for a variety of domestic and international law firms and as a real estate agent. […]
Jan Schakowsky
Jan Schakowsky


Janice (Jan) Schakowsky assumed office January 1999, representing Illinois 9th District in the United States House of Representatives. Schakowsky was born May 26, 1944, in Chicago, Illinois. She received her Bachelor of Science in elementary education from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1965. Prior to serving in Congress, Schakowsky was program director of Illinois Public Action, Illinois' largest public interest group, from 1976 to 1985, and served as director of the Illinois State Council of Senior Citizens from 1985 to 1990. From 1990 to 1998, Schakowsky served as a […]
Jean Schmidt
Jean M Schmidt


Jean M. Schmidt has been a member of the Ohio House of Representatives representing District 65 since January 1, 2021. Previously, Schmidt served in the U.S. House of Representatives representing Ohio's 2nd District from August 2005 to January 2013. Schmidt was born November 29, 1951, in Cincinnati, Ohio. She received her Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of Cincinnati in 1974. Prior to her political career, she was employed as a bank branch manager, a fitness instructor and a schoolteacher. She was a delegate to the Republican […]
Hillary Scholten
Hillary Scholten


Hillary Scholten is the current U.S. House Representative for Michigan’s 3rd District. She was elected in the 2022 midterm elections and has held the position as the first Democrat in 50 years and the first woman ever since 2023. Scholten was born in west Michigan in 1982. She obtained her J.D. from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law in 2012. She clerked with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the U.S. Department of Justice Board of Immigration. Scholten later went on to […]
Kathleen Sebelius
Kathleen Sebelius


Kathleen Sebelius served as the U.S. secretary of health and human services (HHS) from April 28, 2009 to April 13, 2014. Sebelius was born May 15, 1948, in Cincinnati, Ohio. She earned a bachelor's degree from Trinity Washington University in 1970 and a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Kansas in 1977. Sebelius served in the Kansas House of Representatives from 1987-1995, then served as Kansas insurance commissioner from 1995-2003. She was elected governor of Kansas in 2002, the first daughter of a governor to be elected […]