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Cynthia Lummis
Cynthia M Lummis


Cynthia Lummis was elected U.S. senator for Wyoming on November 3, 2020. Previously, she represented Wyoming in the United States House of Representatives from 2009 to 2017. Lummis was born September 10, 1954, in Cheyenne, Wyoming. She received bachelor degrees in animal science and biology from the University of Wyoming. In 1979, Lummis became the youngest woman ever elected to Wyoming Legislature, serving in the Wyoming House of Representatives until 1983. Lummis then returned to the University of Wyoming and completed her law degree in 1985. Following, she clerked at […]
Liz Mathis
Liz Mathis


Liz Mathis has served as an Iowa state senator since 2011. In 2022, she was the Democratic nominee for Iowa's 1st congressional district, losing in the general election to incumbent Ashley Hinson. Mathis grew up on a farm in Eastern Iowa. She graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in journalism. Early on in her journalism career, Mathis was a broadcaster for a local radio station. She would later become a professor and taught at Wartburg College. Sources: Liz Mathis for Congress. Liz Mathis. (2022, July 28). Retrieved […]
Mariannette Miller-Meeks
Mariannette Miller-Meeks


Mariannette Miller-Meeks assumed office as the U.S. representative for Iowa's 2nd District on Jan. 3, 2021. Following redistricting in 2021, most of District 2 was renamed District 1 and Miller-Meeks won re-election in the district. Miller-Meeks enlisted in the United States Army at age 18 and retired honorably from the reserves as a Lt. Colonel. During those 24 years, active duty and reserve, she served as a private, nurse, and physician. She completed her undergraduate degree in nursing at Texas Christian University, a Master of Science in education from University […]
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, […]
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore


Gwen Moore assumed office January 2005, representing Wisconsin's 4th District in the United States House of Representatives. Moore was born April 18, 1951, in Racine, Wisconsin. She completed a Bachelor of Arts in political science at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1978. Prior to entering the United States Congress, Moore served as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (1989 to 1992) and as a member of the Wisconsin State Senate (1993 to 2004). She was elected as the Democratic co-chair of the Congressional Women's Caucus in January 2011. […]
Erin Murphy
Erin Murphy


Erin Murphy assumed office in the Minnesota State Senate on January 5, 2021. She previously served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2007 to 2019. She was a 2018 Democratic candidate for governor of Minnesota, but lost in the primary. Murphy was born March 13, 1960. She received a Bachelor of Science in nursing from the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh in 1984 and her Master of Arts in organizational leadership in health care at the College of St. Catherine in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 2005. She attended the Humphrey Institute […]
Patty Murray
Patty Murray


Patty Murray assumed office as Washington's United States senator in January 1993, becoming the state's first female senator. Murray was also the first female chair of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee and the first female chair of the Senate Budget Committee. On Jan. 3, 2023, Murray became the first woman to be elected Senate president pro tempore, placing her third in the line of presidential succession. Murray was born October 11, 1950, in Bothell, Washington. She graduated from Washington State University in 1972 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in […]
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. […]
Carla Nelson
Carla Nelson


Carla Nelson has served in the Minnesota State Senate since 2010. She was a Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives to represent Minnesota's 1st Congressional District, but lost in the primary. Nelson was born in Webster City, Iowa, on May 22, 1957. She earned a Bachelor of Science in special education from Drake University and a Master in Education in teacher leadership from the University of Minneapolis. She started her career as a teacher in 1992 for the Rochester Public Schools and left in 2000. In 2005 she […]