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Lucy McBath
Lucy McBath


Lucy McBath has served as a U.S. representative for Georgia since 2019, serving the 6th District from 2019-2023 and the 7th District since 2023. McBath was born on June 1, 1960, in Joliet, Illinois. Her father, Lucien Holman, served as president of the NAACP's Illinois chapter, and as a child, McBath traveled with her family to attend marches and rallies supporting the Civil Rights Movement. After earning a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Virginia State University in 1982, McBath worked as an intern for Douglas Wilder, a member […]
Carolyn McCarthy
Carolyn McCarthy


Carolyn McCarthy represented New York's 4th District in the United States House of Representatives from 1997 to 2015. McCarthy was born January 5, 1944, in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Mineola, New York. Prior to entering Congress, she worked as a licensed practical nurse. While in Congress, McCarthy worked as a senior member of the Committee on Education and Workforce, as well as the Financial Services Committee. In 2007, she became the chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities. McCarthy had many of her acts signed into […]
Lisa McClain
Lisa McClain


Lisa McClain has served in the U.S. House of Representatives for Michigan since 2021, representing the 10th District through 2023 and the 9th District since then. McClain was born on April 7, 1966, in Stockbridge, Michigan, and raised there. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in business administration from Northwood University. She worked at the Hantz Group from 1998-2019. From 1987-1997, she was an executive at American Express. For information on McClain's policy subject areas, committee appointments and sponsored/co-sponsored legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives, please visit her […]
Betty McCollum
Betty McCollum


Betty McCollum assumed office January 2001, representing Minnesota's 4th District in the United States House of Representatives. McCollum was born July 12, 1954, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She graduated from the College of St. Catherine and taught high school social science. Prior to entering Congress, McCollum served on the North St. Paul City Council from 1986 to 1993 and in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1993 to 2001. For information on McCollum's policy subject areas, committee appointments and sponsored/co-sponsored legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives, please visit her profile […]
Cynthia A McKinney
Cynthia A McKinney


Cynthia A. McKinney represented Georgia in the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 2003 and then again from 2005 to 2007. She was the first African American woman from Georgia in the U.S. House. McKinney was born March 17, 1955, in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1978, she graduated from the University of Southern California with a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations. She completed graduate studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Medford, Massachusetts. In 1984, McKinney served as a diplomatic fellow at Spelman College 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. […]
Martha McSally
Martha McSally


Martha McSally was appointed to the U.S. Senate for Arizona on Jan. 3, 2019, to finish the term of the late Senator John McCain, who passed away on August 25, 2018. McCain's first appointed successor, retired Senator Jon Kyl, served only until the end of that Congress. McSally was the 2020 Republican nominee for the seat, losing in the general election. McSally was born on March 22, 1966, in Warwick, Rhode Island. She graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1988, earned a master's degree in public policy […]
Grace Meng
Grace Meng


Grace Meng assumed office as the U.S. Representative for New York's 6th Congressional District in January 2013. Born and raised in Queens, Meng graduated from Stuyvesant High School, has a B.A. from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Previously, she was a member of the New York state legislature, the youngest Asian American ever elected to that state legislature. Meng is a distinguished member of the NYS Legislative Women's Caucus. As the first-ever Asian American appointed to hold a cabinet […]
Barbara Mikulski
Barbara Mikulski


Barbara Mikulski served as Maryland's United States senator from 1986-2017. Mikulski was the first Democrat woman senator elected in her own right. She was also the first woman to chair the Senate Committee on Appropriations. In 2011 Mikulski became the longest-serving female senator and in 2012, the longest-serving woman in Congress. Mikulski was born July 20, 1936, in Baltimore, Maryland. She received her Bachelor of Arts in sociology in 1958 from Mount Saint Agnes College (now part of Loyola University Maryland) and her master's degree in social work from the […]
Juanita Millender-McDonald
Juanita Millender-McDonald


Juanita Millender-McDonald represented California in the United States House of Representatives from 1996 to 2007. Millender-McDonald served as the chairwoman of the House Administration Committee, the first African American woman to chair a standing congressional panel. Millender-McDonald was born September 7, 1938, in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1981, she completed her Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from the University of Redlands in Redlands, California. In 1988, she received her master's degree in educational administration from California State University in Los Angeles. After teaching math at a public high school, […]