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Kelda Roys
Kelda Roys


Kelda Roys is the CEO and founder of OpenHomes, a real estate brokerage. She was a 2018 Democratic candidate for governor of Wisconsin, but lost in the primary. 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. Her political career began when she won her election to the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Kyrsten Sinema
Kyrsten Sinema


Kyrsten Sinema assumed office in the U.S. Senate for Arizona on Jan. 3, 2019. Previously, she served as the U.S. representative from Arizona's 9th Congressional District. On March 5, 2024, Sinema announced that she was not running for re-election to the Senate. Sinema was born on July 12, 1976, in Tucson, Arizona. She earned her B.A. from Brigham Young University in 1995, her Master of Social Work from Arizona State University in 1999, a J.D. from Arizona State University College of Law in 2004 and a Ph.D. in justice studies […]
Louise Slaughter
Louise M Slaughter


Louise M. Slaughter served New York in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1987 until her death on March 16, 2018. Slaughter was the first woman to serve as chairwoman of the House Committee on Rules and one of the longest-serving Democrats in Congress. Slaughter was born in Harlan County, Kentucky, August 14, 1929. In 1951, she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in microbiology; and in 1953, she received her Master of Science in public health, both from the University of Kentucky. After graduate school, Slaughter worked for Procter […]
Olympia Snowe
Olympia J Snowe


Olympia Snowe served as a U.S. senator for Maine from 1995 to 2013. Snowe was born February 21, 1947, in Augusta, Maine. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of Maine in 1969 and married state representative Peter Snowe the same year. In the early 1970s, she worked at the Auburn Board of Voter Registration, then as an office manager for U.S. Representative (and future secretary of defense) William S. Cohen. In 1973, Snowe was elected to the seat in the Maine House of Representatives […]
Hilda Solis
Hilda Solis


Hilda Solis assumed office as a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in December 2014. Solis previously served as the United States secretary of labor from 2009-2013, the first Latina to serve in the U.S. Cabinet. Solis was born October 20, 1957, in Los Angeles, California. She completed a Bachelor of Arts in political science from California State Polytechnic University in 1979 and a master's degree in public administration from the University of Southern California in 1981. Solis worked with the White House Office of Hispanic Affairs […]
Jackie Speier
Jackie Speier


Jackie Speier served in the U.S. House of Representatives for California from 2008 until her retirement in 2023. Speier was born May 14, 1950, in San Francisco, California. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of California-Davis in 1972 and her Juris Doctorate from the University of California Hastings School of Law in 1976. From 1973 to 1978, Speier worked as a staff member for California Representative Leo Joseph Ryan. In 1978, she was part of Ryan's fact-finding mission investigating allegations of human rights abuses by Jim Jones […]
Debbie Stabenow
Debbie A Stabenow


Debbie Stabenow assumed office as a Michigan United States senator in January 2001, the first woman to represent the state in the U.S. Senate. On Jan. 5, 2023, Stabenow announced that she would not seek reelection in 2024. Stabenow was born April 29, 1950, in Gladwin, Michigan. She completed her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Social Work degrees from Michigan State University in 1972 and 1975, respectively. Before entering politics, Stabenow worked with youth in the public schools. Stabenow served as Ingham County commissioner from 1975-1978. She served in […]