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Gretchen Driskell
Gretchen Driskell


Gretchen Driskell has served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2012 - 2017, representing the 52nd District. Prior to serving in the legislature, she was the mayor of Saline, Michigan, the first woman to hold that position. Driskell was the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives in Michigan's 7th congressional district in both 2016 and 2018, but lost in the general election both times. Driskell was born October 1, 1958, in Port Washington, New York. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting degree from Lynchburg […]
Nancy Dunkel
Nancy A Dunkel


Nancy A. Dunkel was a member of the Iowa House of Representatives, representing District 57 from 2013 to 2017. Dunkel was the first woman to chair the Iowa Bankers Association. Dunkel, of Dyersville, Iowa, is a respected leader in the banking industry and an inspirational role model for women in business. She has held many positions in bank leadership roles, including majority shareholder and the president of a bank holding company. She has been a dedicated advocate of the banking industry and a mentor for other women to be successful […]
Delaine Eastin
Delaine Eastin


Delaine Eastin was a Democratic candidate for governor of California in 2018. Eastin was born in San Diego on August 20, 1947. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of California - Davis and her master's in political science at from the University of California - Santa Barbara. She taught at several community colleges, and then worked as an accounting manager and corporate planner while serving on the city council in Union City. In 1986, Eastin was elected to the California State Assembly. She served until 1995, when she […]
Sue Ellspermann
Sue Ellspermann


Sue Ellspermann served as the lieutenant governor of Indiana from January 2013 to March 2016, when she resigned to pursue the presidency of Ivy Tech Community College. A 1978 graduate of Forest Park High School, Ellspermann earned a degree in industrial engineering from Purdue University in 1982. After graduating, she worked in engineering and management at AC Spark Plug, Michelin and Frito-Lay. In 1986, Ellspermann and her family returned to Evansville, where she founded a consulting business, Ellspermann and Associates, Inc. While building her practice, Ellspermann completed a doctorate in […]
Elizabeth Esty
Elizabeth Esty


Elizabeth Esty served as the U.S. representative for Connecticut's 5th Congressional District from 2013 to 2019. Esty was born on August 25, 1959, in Oak Park, Illinois. She earned an A.B. from Harvard University in 1981 and J.D. from Yale University in 1985. After clerking for U.S. District Judge Robert Keeton of Massachusetts, Esty joined the firm of Sidley Austin in Washington, DC, and served as a member of the Supreme Court bar. She later went on to work in health care and Medicare policy as a senior research scholar […]
Stacey Evans
Stacey Evans


Stacey Evans was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives for District 57 in 2020. She previously served in the Georgia House from 2011 to 2017. She was a Democratic candidate for governor of Georgia in 2018, losing in the primary. Evans was born in 1978 in Ringgold, Georgia. She received both her Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor from the University of Georgia, and then founded her own law firm, SG Evans Law LLC. Evans has spent much of her political career fighting for the HOPE Scholarship in Georgia.
Mary Fallin
Mary Fallin


Mary Fallin served as Oklahoma's governor from 2011-2019, the state's first female governor. Fallin was born on December 9, 1954, in Warrensburg, Missouri. Both her mother and father served terms as mayor of Tecumseh, Oklahoma, where she was raised. Fallin graduated in 1977 from Oklahoma State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in human and environmental sciences, and family relations and child development. Fallin served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1991 to 1995, then as lieutenant governor of Oklahoma from 1995-2007, the state's first female lieutenant governor. […]
Frances "Sissy" Farenthold
Frances "Sissy" Farenthold


Frances Tarlton "Sissy" Farenthold is a politician, attorney, activist and educator who placed second in nomination for the office of vice president of the United States at the 1972 Democratic National Convention, the first woman to be seriously considered as a vice-presidential candidate in the United States. Farenthold was born on October 2, 1926 in Corpus Christi, Texas. Her grandfather, Judge Benjamin D. Tarlton, Sr., served as chief justice of the Texas Court of Civil Appeals, a state legislator and a professor at the University of Texas School of Law. […]
Abby Finkenauer
Abby Finkenauer


Abby Finkenauer served as the U.S. representative for Iowa's 1st Congressional District from 2019-2021. She and Cindy Axne, who also won election to the U.S. House on Nov. 6, 2018, were the first women to serve in the U.S. House from Iowa. Finkenauer ran for the U.S. Senate in 2022, losing in the primary. Finkenauer was born December 27, 1988, in Dubuque, Iowa. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from Drake University. After college, she worked at the Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque with Jackson, Jones, Delaware, Clayton and Allamakee […]
Peggy Flanagan
Peggy Flanagan


Peggy Flanagan is Minnesota’s 50th lieutenant governor, serving since January 7, 2019. A member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, Flanagan is the second Indigenous woman to be elected to a statewide executive office. Flanagan was born September 22, 1979, and raised in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. She attended the University of Minnesota and in 2002 graduated with a bachelor’s degree in American Indian studies and child psychology. In 2002 she worked on Paul Wellstone’s U.S. Senate campaign and organized with the urban Indigenous community. After graduation, she worked […]