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Sandra Day O'Connor
Sandra Day O'Connor


Sandra Day O'Connor served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from September 25, 1981, until her retirement in 2006. Nominated by President Ronald Reagan, she was the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court. O'Connor was born on March 26, 1930, in El Paso, Texas. She received her B.A. in economics in 1950 and her LL.B. in 1952 from Stanford University. She worked as a deputy county attorney in San Mateo, California from 1952-1953. She then served as a civilian attorney for Quartermaster Market […]
Beverly Perdue
Beverly E Perdue


Beverly Perdue served as governor of North Carolina from 2009-2013, the state's first female governor. Perdue was born January 14, 1947, in Grundy, Virginia. She received a Bachelor of Arts in history from the University of Kentucky in 1969 and her M.Ed. in community college administration (1974) and her Ph.D. in education administration (1976) from the University of Florida. Before entering politics, Perdue worked as a teacher and a health care consultant. Perdue served in the North Carolina House of Representatives from 1987-1991 and the North Carolina Senate from 1991-2001, […]
Chellie Pingree
Chellie M Pingree


Chellie M. Pingree assumed office in January 2009, representing Maine's 1st District in the United States House of Representatives, the first woman elected to Congress from that district. Pingree was born April 2, 1955, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She attended the University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine. She completed her Bachelor of Arts from the College of Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, in 1979. Prior to serving in Congress, Pingree served as a member of the North Haven, Maine, board of assessors (1981-1987) and as chairwoman (1982-1983). She also served […]
Yvonne Prettner Solon
Yvonne Prettner Solon


Yvonne Prettner Solon served as Minnesota's lieutenant governor from 2011 to 2015. Prettner Solon was the 6th consecutive woman to serve as Minnesota's lieutenant governor. Prettner Solon was born February 3, 1946, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She received her Bachelor of Science degree and her Master of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Prior to being elected as lieutenant governor, Prettner Solon served in the Minnesota State Senate from 2002 to 2011, representing the 7th District of Minnesota. While in Senate, Solon was a member of the Senate's Capital […]
Jane Raybould
Jane Raybould


Jane Raybould assumed office in the Nebraska State Senate on January 4, 2023. Raybould was the 2018 Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate for Nebraska, losing to incumbent Deb Fischer. Raybould was born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from Creighton University and a Master of Arts from Georgetown. She is vice president and director of buildings and equipment for B&R Stores Inc,, her family's business. Raybould's political career started in small civic leadership positions such as the board member of the Lincoln Chamber of […]
Michele Reagan
Michele Reagan


Michele Reagan has served as a justice of the peace for the Maricopa County McDowell Mountain Precinct in Arizona since 2021. Reagan was born on October 13, 1969, in Rockford, Illinois, and graduated from Illinois State University. She moved to Arizona in 1991 with her family. Reagan was elected to the Arizona State House in 2002, where she served until 2010 when she was elected to the Arizona State Senate. She served as Arizona’s secretary of state from 2015-2019, losing in the 2018 primary election.
Kim Reynolds
Kim Reynolds


Kim Reynolds became the first woman to serve as governor of Iowa on May 24, 2017, when she replaced Governor Terry Branstad after he stepped down to become U.S. ambassador to China. Previously, Reynolds had served as the lieutenant governor of Iowa from 2011-2017. On Nov. 6, 2018, she won the election for governor, Iowa's first elected female governor. Reynolds was born on August 4, 1959, in Truro, Iowa, and grew up in St. Charles, Iowa. In 2016, while serving as lieutenant governor, she received a Bachelor of Liberal Studies […]
Elizabeth Roberts
Elizabeth H Roberts


Elizabeth Roberts was the first female elected lieutenant governor of Rhode Island, serving from 2007 to 2015. Born in Washington, D.C., Roberts attended Brown University and graduated with a degree in human biology in 1978. Following college, Roberts completed her MBA in health care management at Boston University in 1984. From 1997 until 2007, Roberts served in the Rhode Island State Senate. As a state senator, Roberts worked to make insurance affordable for small business. In 2004, Roberts created the Office of Health Insurance Commissioner to oversee insurance companies and […]
Wendy Rogers
Wendy Rogers


Wendy Rogers has served in the Arizona state Senate since 2021, serving the 6th legislative district. Due to redistricting following the 2020 census, she is running for re-election in 2022 in the 7th legislative district. Rogers was born on July 24, 1954, in Fort Knox, Kentucky. She earned a Bachelor of Social Work from Michigan State University, a Master of Social Work from University of Alabama, and a master's degree in national security studies/political science from California State University, San Bernardino. Before she entered the public sector, she served in […]
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen


Ileana Ros-Lehtinen represented Florida's 18th District and then the 27th District in the United States House of Representatives from 1989-2019. Ros-Lehtinen was born July 15, 1952, in Havana, Cuba. She completed her Associate of Arts from Miami-Dade Community College in 1972 and received her Bachelor of Arts from Florida International University in 1987. Ros-Lehtinen was awarded a Master of Science from Florida International University of Miami in 1987 and a Doctorate of Education from the University of Miami in 2004. Ros-Lehtinen served as a member of the Florida State House […]