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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 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 county affiliate foundations. She formerly served on the board of Greater Dubuque […]
Peggy Flanagan
Peggy Flanagan


Peggy Flanagan has served as Minnesota’s lieutenant governor 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 […]
Valerie P. Foushee
Valerie P. Foushee


Valerie P. Foushee assumed office in the U.S. House of Representatives on Jan. 3, 2023, representing North Carolina's 4th Congressional District. Foushee was born and raised in Orange County, North Carolina. She earned a bachelor's degree in political science and Afro and African-American studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her career experience includes working as an administrator with the Chapel Hill Police Department and in administrative positions with insurance and research companies. She also served on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School Board, and then was the […]
Lois Frankel
Lois Frankel


Lois Frankel has served as a U.S. representative for Florida since 2013. She served the 22nd District from 2013-2017, the 21st District from 2017-2023, and currently serves the 22nd District again. Frankel was born in New York, New York, on May 16, 1948. She received a B.A. from Boston University and J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. Previously she served 14 years in the Florida state legislature, and became the first woman to serve as Democratic minority leader. She was then elected mayor of West Palm Beach in 2003 and […]
Tulsi Gabbard
Tulsi Gabbard


Tulsi Gabbard is the director of national intelligence for the Trump administration. She previously served as the representative for Hawaii's 2nd Congressional District from 2013-2021, the first American Samoan congresswoman and first practicing Hindu member of Congress. In February 2019, she announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States, the first female combat veteran to run for U.S. president. She suspended her presidential campaign on March 19, 2020. Gabbard was born on April 12, 1981, in Leloaloa, American Samoa. She received a bachelor's degree in […]
Sara Gideon
Sara Gideon


Sara Gideon served in the Maine House of Representatives from 2012-2020. She was the 2020 Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, losing to incumbent Susan Collins. Gideon was born on December 4, 1971, and raised in Rhode Island. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in international affairs from George Washington University in 1994. Gideon began her political career as an intern for U.S. Senator Claiborne Pell. After moving to Maine in 2004, she served on the Freeport Town Council. She was elected to the Maine House in 2012. In 2014, […]
Gabrielle Giffords
Gabrielle Giffords


Gabrielle Giffords assumed office in January 2007, representing Arizona's 8th District in the United States House of Representatives until January 2012. Giffords is the third woman elected from Arizona to serve in the United States Congress. Giffords was born June 8, 1970, in Tucson, Arizona. In 1993, she completed her B.A. in sociology and Latin American history at Scripps College in California. From 1993 to 1994, she studied in Chihuahua, Mexico, as a Fulbright Scholar. After returning to the United States, Gifford studied at Cornell University, completing her master's degree […]
Christina Giunchigliani
Christina Giunchigliani


Christina Giunchigliani was a Democratic candidate for governor of Nevada in 2018. She served as Clark County commissioner in Nevada from 2007 to 2019. Giunchigliani was born in Lucca, Italy, on November 27, 1954. Her family then moved to Chicago where she grew up. She attended Avila College in Kansas City, Missouri, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in special education. She then earned her Master of Arts in education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Giunchigliani's political career started when she was elected to the Nevada Assembly […]
Jenniffer González-Colón
Jenniffer González-Colón


Jenniffer González-Colón assumed office as govenor of Puerto Rico on January 2, 2025. From 2017-2025, she served as the resident commissioner of Puerto Rico, representing the island in the U.S. House of Representatives. She was the youngest person and the first woman to be resident commissioner. González-Colón was born in San Juan on August 5, 1976. She received her bachelor's degree in political science at the University of Puerto Rico, and her J.D. and L.L.M. from the Inter American University of Puerto Rico School of Law. Her career in elective […]
Jessica González-Rojas
Jessica González-Rojas


Jessica González-Rojas Represents New York State's 34th District in the New York State Assembly. She assumed office on January 1, 2021. González-Rojas earned her bachelor's degree in international relations from Boston University and a master's degree in public administration with a concentration in public and nonprofit management and public policy from NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She has also completed a certificate program in management at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. From 2002 to 2006, González-Rojas served on the New York State Democratic Committee for […]