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Harriet Hageman
Harriet Hageman


Harriet Hageman assumed office in the U.S. House of Representatives representing Wyoming's at-large congressional district on Jan. 3, 2023. Hageman was born and raised on a ranch near Fort Laramie, Wyoming. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Wyoming in 1986 and her law degree from the University of Wyoming College of Law in 1989. Her first job was as a law clerk for federal appeals judge James Barrett. She then began practicing law in the private sector throughout Wyoming, Nebraska and Colorado. In 2004, she co-founded the […]
Janice Hahn
Janice Hahn


Janice Hahn was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Nov. 8, 2016. Prior to serving on the board, she represented California's 36th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives from July 2011 to 2012 and District 44 from 2012 to 2017. Hahn was born May 30, 1952. In 1974, she graduated from Abilene Christian University in Texas with a bachelor of science degree in education. Following graduation, Hahn taught at Good News Academy, a private school in Westchester, from 1974 to 1978. Prior to […]
Debbie Halvorson
Debbie Halvorson


Deborah "Debbie" Halvorson represented Illinois' 11th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives from 2009 until 2011. Halvorson was born March 1, 1958, in Chicago Heights, Illinois. She served in the Illinois State Senate from 1997 to 2009, and in 2005 was elected as the first female majority leader of the Illinois State Senate. While serving in the state Senate, Halvorson completed her Bachelor of Arts and her master's in communication, with degrees from Robert Morris College, Prairie State College, and Governors State University. For information on Halvorson's […]
Colleen Hanabusa
Colleen Hanabusa


Colleen Hanabusa represented Hawaii's 1st Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015 and from 2017 to 2019. She had not run for re-election in 2014, instead choosing to run for the U.S. Senate but losing that race in a close primary. In November 2016, she won a special election to fill the remaining term of the late Rep. Mark Takai, who had won her old seat in the 1st District but passed away in July 2016, and also won the general election for that seat. […]
Karen Handel
Karen Handel


Karen Handel represented Georgia's 6th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2017 - 2019 and was the first Republican woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress from Georgia. Handel won a special election on June 20, 2017, to replace Tom Price, who was confirmed as United States secretary of health and human services for the Trump administration in February 2017. She lost her 2018 re-election bid. Handel was born April 18, 1962, in Washington, DC, and grew up in Maryland. She attended both Prince George's Community […]
Jane Harman
Jane Harman


Jane Harman served in the United States House of Representatives for California from 1993 to 1999 and from 2001 to 2011. Born June 28, 1945, in New York, New York, Harman graduated from University High School in Los Angeles, California in 1962. In 1966, she received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, and her Juris Doctorate from Harvard University School of Law in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1969. Prior to serving in Congress, she was a top aide in the United States Senate, deputy cabinet secretary […]
Vicky Hartzler
Vicky Hartzler


Vicky Hartzler served as United States representative for Missouri's 4th Congressional District from 2011-2023. Hartzler was a candidate in the 2022 U.S. Senate election, but lost in the primary. Hartzler was born October 13, 1960, in Cass County, Missouri, and was raised on a farm near Archie, Missouri. She graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a bachelor's degree in education in 1983 and received her M.S. in education from Central Missouri State University (now the University of Central Missouri) in 1992. Prior to serving in the U.S. House of […]
Jahana Hayes
Jahana Hayes


Jahana Hayes assumed office as U.S. representative for Connecticut's 5th District on Jan. 3, 2019. Hayes was born on March 8, 1973, in Waterbury, Connecticut, and grew up in the Berkeley Heights housing project in Waterbury. After completing an alternative high school program in 1990 after becoming a teenaged parent, she later went on to earn an associate degree in liberal arts and sciences from Naugatuck Valley Community College in 2002, a bachelor's degree from Southern Connecticut State University in 2005, and a Master of Arts in curriculum and instruction […]
Nan Hayworth
Nan Hayworth


Nan Hayworth served in the United States House of Representatives for New York's 19th District from 2011 to 2012. Hayworth was born December 14, 1959, in Chicago, Illinois, and was raised in Munster, Indiana. She graduated from Princeton University summa cum laude in biology in 1981 and from Cornell University Medical College in 1985. Following college, Hayworth worked as an instructor and assistant clinical professor for the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. She also worked as an ophthalmologist in her own practice for 16 years and was […]
Katie Hill
Katie Hill


Katie Hill served as the U.S. representative for California's 25th Congressional District from Jan. 3, 2019, to Nov. 1, 2019. Hill graduated from California State University, Northridge with a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Masters in public administration. After college, Hill began her career at PATH (People Assisting the Homeless), a non-profit developing affordable and supportive places for people to live, eventually serving as their executive director. In October 2019, Hill announced her resignation from Congress following the publication of a nude photograph of her and an announcement […]