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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. On April 12, 2025, Reynolds announced that she would not be running for re-election in 2026. Reynolds was born on August 4, 1959, in Truro, Iowa, and grew up in St. […]
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 […]
Kelda Roys
Kelda Roys


Kelda Roys has served as a member of the Wisconsin State Senate, representing District 26, since January 4, 2021. Roys previously served in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 2009-2013. She was a 2018 Democratic candidate for governor of Wisconsin. Roys was born in Marshfield, Wisconsin, on June 24, 1979. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from New York University and her Juris Doctor from University of Wisconsin, Madison. During and after law school, she worked for a variety of domestic and international law firms and as a real estate agent. […]
Allyson Schwartz
Allyson Schwartz


Allyson Schwartz represented Pennsylvania's 13th District in the United States House of Representatives from 2005 to 2015. In 2014, Schwartz was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor of Pennsylvania, but was defeated in the primary. Schwartz was born October 3, 1948, in Queens, New York. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in sociology from Simmons College, located in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1970. In 1972, she received her Master of Social Work from Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Prior to entering Congress, Schwartz worked as a […]
Jeanne Shaheen
Jeanne Shaheen


Jeanne Shaheen assumed office as a United States senator for New Hampshire in January 2009. Shaheen is the first female U.S. senator from New Hampshire, the first woman to be elected governor of New Hampshire, and the first woman to be elected as both a U.S. governor and a U.S. senator. Shaheen announced in March 2025 that she will be retiring from public office at the end of her term. Shaheen was born January 28, 1947, in Saint Charles, Missouri. She received her bachelor's degree in English from Shippensburg University […]
Kyrsten Sinema
Kyrsten Sinema


Kyrsten Sinema assumed office in the U.S. Senate for Arizona on Jan. 3, 2019. Previously, she served as the U.S. representative from Arizona's 9th Congressional District. On March 5, 2024, Sinema announced that she was not running for re-election to the Senate. Sinema was born on July 12, 1976, in Tucson, Arizona. She earned her B.A. from Brigham Young University in 1995, her Master of Social Work from Arizona State University in 1999, a J.D. from Arizona State University College of Law in 2004 and a Ph.D. in justice studies […]
Becky Skillman
Becky S Skillman


Rebecca "Becky" Skillman, the first elected female lieutenant governor of Indiana, assumed office in January 2005 and served until 2013. A native to Bedford, Indiana, Skillman was born September 26, 1950. Following her graduation from Indiana University, Skillman was elected Lawrence County recorder in 1977. In 1984, Skillman became the county clerk, a position she held until 1992. Prior to holding office as lieutenant governor, Skillman was elected to serve in the Indiana Senate (1992 to 2004). While holding a senate seat, Skillman became the first woman elected to senate […]