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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 […]
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. […]
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, […]
Patsy Mink
Patsy Mink


Patsy Mink served as a United States representative for Hawaii from 1965 to 1977, and then again from 1989 to 2003. Mink was the first woman of color to serve in Congress. In 1972, she ran as an anti-war candidate in the 1972 Oregon Democratic presidential primary. Mink was born on December 6, 1927, in Pai, Hawaii Territory. She received a with a Bachelor of Arts in zoology and chemistry from the University of Hawaii in 1948 and her Juris Doctorate from the University of Chicago Law School in 1951. […]
Ruth Ann Minner
Ruth Ann Minner


Ruth Ann Minner served as governor of Delaware from 2001-2009, the state's first female governor. She was also the first woman elected as Delaware's lieutenant governor, in 1993. Minner was born January 17, 1935, in Delaware. Following the death of her first husband, she earned her GED in 1968 and later attended Delaware Technical and Community College. Prior to serving as governor, Minner served as Delaware's lieutenant governor from 1993-2001. She also served in the Delaware state Senate (1983-1993) and state House of Representatives (1975-1983). Minner died on Nov. 4, […]
Sue Minter
Sue Minter


Sue Minter was the 2016 Democratic nominee for governor of Vermont, but lost in the general election. Minter was born on January 23, 1961 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Harvard University with a concentration in sociology in 1984. She earned a master's degree in urban planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991. Minter served in the Vermont House of Representatives from 2005 to 2011. In January 2011, she was appointed deputy secretary of the Vermont Agency of Transportation, and was praised for her leadership of Vermont's […]
Diane Mitsch Bush
Diane Mitsch Bush


Diane Mitsch Bush was the 2020 Democratic nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives for Colorado's 3rd District. She was also the 2018 Democratic nominee for the that seat, losing to incumbent Scott Tipton. Mitsch Bush earned a Bachelor of Arts in sociology in 1975 and Ph.D. in sociology and social policy in 1979 from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She has worked as a research assistant for the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota, a small business proprietor in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and an assistant professor […]
Carol Molnau
Carol Molnau


Carol Molnau served as Minnesota's lieutenant governor from 2003 to 2011. Molnau was born September 17, 1949, in Waconia, Minnesota, and attended the University of Minnesota. She served on the Chaska City Council from 1989 to 1992. Prior to serving as lieutenant governor, Molnau was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1992 and served five terms. Formally the head of the Minnesota Department of Transportation, Molnau served as Minnesota's lieutenant governor and transport commissioner simultaneously. Sources: Ballotpedia (n.d.). “Carol Molnau” Ballotpedia. Retrieved October 7, 2022. https://ballotpedia.org/Carol_Molnau