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Nancy Mace
Nancy Mace


Nancy Mace assumed office as the U.S. representative for South Carolina's 1st congressional district in 2021, the first Republican woman elected to Congress from South Carolina Macy was born December 4, 1977, at Fort Liberty, North Carolina, the daughter of a United States Army officer. In 1999, Mace became the first woman to graduate from The Citadel's Corps of Cadets program with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. She also earned a master’s degree is journalism and mass communication from the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication […]
Carolyn B Maloney
Carolyn B Maloney


Carolyn B. Maloney represented New York's 14th District in the United States House of Representatives from 1993-2013 and New York's 12th District from 2013-2023. Maloney was the first woman to represent New York's 14th Congressional District, the first woman to chair the Joint Economic Committee and the first woman to chair the Oversight and Reform Committee. She ran for reelection in 2022 but lost the primary to 10th District incumbent Jerry Nadler after redistricting put them in the same district. Maloney was born February 19, 1946, in Greensboro, North Carolina […]
Claire McCaskill
Claire McCaskill


Claire McCaskill served as a U.S. senator for Missouri from 2007-2019, the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate from Missouri. McCaskill was born July 24, 1953, in Rolla, Missouri. Her father, Bill McCaskill, served as Missouri state insurance commissioner and her mother, Betty Anne McCaskill, served on the Columbia City Council. McCaskill attended the University of Missouri, where she completed her Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1975 and Juris Doctorate in 1978. Following college, worked as a prosecutor. In 1982, she assumed office as a […]
April McClain Delaney
April McClain Delaney


April McClain Delaney is the Democratic Nominee for Maryland’s U.S. Congressional District Six. Delaney was born in Buhl, Idaho. She attended Northwestern University and studied communications before going to Georgetown University Law Center and earning her J.D.. She worked as an attorney for Cohn and Marks, LLP, and Loral Space & Communications ,Ltd, before joining the national non-profit Common Sense Media in Washington D.C., where she worked for over 15 years. Delaney was appointed Deputy Assistant Director of Communications and Information at the Department of Commerce in 2022. She stepped […]
Betty McCollum
Betty McCollum


Betty McCollum assumed office January 2001, representing Minnesota's 4th District in the United States House of Representatives. McCollum was born July 12, 1954, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She graduated from the College of St. Catherine and taught high school social science. Prior to entering Congress, McCollum served on the North St. Paul City Council from 1986 to 1993 and in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1993 to 2001. For information on McCollum's policy subject areas, committee appointments and sponsored/co-sponsored legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives, please visit her profile […]
Kristen McDonald Rivet
Kristen McDonald Rivet


Kristen McDonald Rivet is the Senator for the Michigan State Senate District 35. She is running in the 2024 elections to join the U.S. House of Representatives for Michigan’s 8th District. Rivet was born in Michigan in 1970, and she currently lives in Bay City. She attended the Michigan State University for undergraduate and the University of Michigan at Flint for graduate school, where she earned a master's degree in education and public administration. She has worked as the Executive Director of Michigan Head Start, Chief of Staff for Michigan’s […]
Gloria Negrete McLeod
Gloria Negrete McLeod


Gloria Negrete McLeod is a representative of California's Area 5 on the Chaffey Community College District Governing Board. Formerly she served as the U.S. Representative for California's 35th Congressional District from 2013 to 2015. Negrete McLeod was born in Los Angeles, California, on September 6, 1941. She received her associate's degree from Chaffey Community College. Before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, she served as the president of the Chaffey Community College Board and was a board member for five years before being elected to the State Legislature. […]
Grace Meng
Grace Meng


Grace Meng assumed office as the U.S. Representative for New York's 6th Congressional District in January 2013. Born and raised in Queens, Meng graduated from Stuyvesant High School, has a B.A. from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Previously, she was a member of the New York state legislature, the youngest Asian American ever elected to that state legislature. Meng is a distinguished member of the NYS Legislative Women's Caucus. As the first-ever Asian American appointed to hold a cabinet […]
Carol D. Miller
Carol D. Miller


Carol Miller assumed office as U.S. representative for West Virginia's 3rd Congressional District on Jan. 3, 2019. Previously, Miller served in the the West Virginia House of Delegates from 2007 to 2019. Miller was born Nov. 4, 1950, in Columbus, Ohio. Her father was U.S. Congressman Samuel L. Devine. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in history and political science from Columbia College in 1972. She has worked as a self-employed real estate manager since 1985 and has owned Swann Ridge Bison Farm since 1994. In the West Virginia […]
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, […]