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Lisa Brown
Lisa Brown


Lisa Brown assumed office as the mayor of Spokane, Washington, on January 1, 2024. She is a former state legislator and former chancellor of Washington State University, Spokane. Brown was born October 9, 1956, in Robison, Illinois. She received a Bachelor of Arts in sociology and economics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a Masters of Arts and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She was an associate professor of economics at Eastern Washington University from 1981 to 2001, serving as the interim director of the […]
Emily Cain
Emily Cain


Emily Cain is the executive director of the political action committee EMILY's list. Additionally, she served as a Maine state senator and served in the Maine House of Representatives. Cain was born March 29, 1980, in Louisville, Kentucky, grew up in Illinois, and graduated from high school in New Jersey. She is a graduate of the University of Maine and Harvard University. Cain served in the Maine House of Representatives from 2004 to 2012, serving as minority leader from 2010 to 2012. In 2012 Cain ran for the state Senate […]
Morgan Carroll
Morgan Carroll


Morgan Carroll served in the Colorado State Senate from 2009 to 2017, representing the 29th district. She was the 2016 Democratic nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives in Colorado's 6th District, but lost in the general election. Carroll was born November 24, 1971, in Denver, Colorado. Her father, John Carroll, served as a Colorado State Representative from 1964 to 1974. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from the University of Colorado Denver in 1996 and her Juris Doctorate from the University of Colorado Law School in 2000. […]
Katherine Clark
Katherine Clark


Katherine Clark represents the 5th Congressional District of Massachusetts. She was first elected in a special election on December 10, 2013, to succeed Sen. Ed Markey, who resigned after being elected to fill John Kerry's seat following his nomination as U.S. secretary of state. She served as assistant speaker (assistant House Democratic leader) from 2021-2023, and currently serves as House minority whip. Clark was born July 17, 1963, in New Haven, Connecticut. She graduated from St. Lawrence University, Cornell Law School and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. […]
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis


Wendy Davis served as a Texas state senator from 2009 to 2015. She was the 2014 Democratic nominee for Texas governor and the 2020 Democratic nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives for Texas' 21st District. Davis was born on May 16, 1963 in West Warwick, Rhode Island. Her family moved to Texas when she was 11 years old. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from Texas Christian University and a law degree from Harvard Law School. Davis served a federal clerkship from 1993 to 1994, then joined […]
Joni Ernst
Joni Ernst


Joni Ernst assumed office in the U.S. Senate in 2015, the first woman from Iowa elected to either house of Congress and the Senate's first female combat veteran. Ernst was born on July 1, 1970, in Red Oak, Iowa. She earned a bachelor's degree from Iowa State University in 1992 and has a master's degree from Columbus College (now Columbus State University) in 1995. Ernst served a combined 23 years with the United States Army Reserve and the Iowa Army National Guard, attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel. From 2003 […]
Deb Fischer
Deb Fischer


Deb Fischer assumed office as a U.S. senator from Nebraska in January 2013, the third female senator from Nebraska and the first elected to a full term. Born March 1, 1951 in Lincoln, Nebraska, Fischer attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and graduated with a B.S. in education in 1988. Fischer served on the Valentine Rural High School Board of Education from 1990-2004, as president of the Nebraska Association of School Boards and as a commissioner on the Nebraska Coordinating Commission for Post-Secondary Education from 2000-2004. In 2004, Fischer was elected […]
Virginia Foxx
Virginia Foxx


Virginia Foxx assumed office in January 2005, representing North Carolina's 5th District in the United States House of Representatives. Foxx was born June 29, 1943, in Bronx, New York. She received her bachelor's degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her master's and doctoral degrees at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. Foxx served as a research assistant at UNC and as an English professor and in university administration at Appalachian State University. From 1987 to 1994, she served as Mayland Community College president. She […]
Sylvia Garcia
Sylvia Garcia


Sylvia Garcia assumed office as U.S. representative for Texas's 29th Congressional District on Jan. 3, 2019. She and Veronica Escobar, U.S. representative for Texas's 16th Congressional District, are the first Hispanic women to represent Texas in the U.S. House. Garcia was born September 6, 1950, in Palito Blanco, Texas. After earning a Bachelor of Arts in social work from Texas Women's University, she worked as a social worker. She later received a Doctor of Jurisprudence from Texas Southern University. In the early 1980s, Houston Mayor Kathryn Whitmire appointed Garcia as […]
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 […]