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Sue Myrick
Sue Myrick


Sue Myrick represented North Carolina's 9th District in the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 2013. Myrick was born August 1, 1941, in Tiffin, Ohio. She attended Heidelberg College from 1959 to 1960. In 1995, she received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Heidelberg College. Prior to serving in Congress, Myrick served as president/CEO of Myrick Advertising and Public Relations and Myrick Enterprises. From 1983 to 1985, she served on the Charlotte (NC) City Council and, from 1987 to 1991, as mayor of Charlotte. For information on […]
Grace Napolitano
Grace Napolitano


Grace Napolitano assumed office as a U.S representative from California in 1999, representing the 34th District from 1999-2003, the 38th District from 2003-2013, the 32nd District from 2013-2023, and now the 31st District. Napolitano was born December 4, 1936, in Brownsville, Texas. She attended Cerritos College in Norwalk, California, and Texas Southmost College in Brownsville, Texas. In 1986, she served on the Norwalk (Calif.) City Council; and from 1989 to 1990, she served as the mayor of Norwalk. Napolitano served as a member of the California Assembly from 1992 to […]
Marie Newman
Marie Newman


Marie Newman served as the U.S. representative for Illinois' 3rd Congressional District from 2021-2023. Newman was born on April 13, 1964 in Evergreen Park, Illinois. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in journalism and business from the University of Wisconsin. After college, she worked in advertising, eventually becoming a partner in a large ad agency and later starting her own consulting firm. She co-founded a nonprofit organization, Team Up to Stop Bullying, to address bullying among school children. She has served as a state and national advocate for health care […]
Kristi Noem
Kristi Noem


Kristi Noem was sworn in as governor of South Dakota on Jan. 5, 2019, the first woman to serve of governor of that state. Previously, Noem served as the U.S. representative for South Dakota's at-large congressional district from 2011-2019. Noem was born November 30, 1971, in South Dakota. While she was attending college at Northern State University in Aberdeen, Noem's father's death in a farming accident forced her to return to home to run the family's ranch. While serving in Congress, Noem took classes at South Dakota State University and […]
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Eleanor Holmes Norton


Eleanor Holmes Norton has served as the delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives for the District of Columbia since 1990. Born June 13, 1937, Norton is a third-generation Washingtonian. After receiving her bachelor's degree from Antioch College in Ohio in 1960, she simultaneously earned a master's degree (1963) and her law degree in American studies (1964) from Yale University. While in college and graduate school, she was active in the civil rights movement and an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and was arrested for organizing and participating […]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez


Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez assumed office as the U.S. representative for New York's 14th congressional district on Jan. 3, 2019. Elected at age 29, she is the youngest woman ever to serve in Congress. Ocasio-Cortez was born October 13, 1989, in the Bronx, New York City. She graduated cum laude from Boston University in 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in international relations and economics. During college, she was an intern in the immigration office of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy. After college, Ocasio-Cortez worked as a bartender in Manhattan and as […]
Ilhan Omar
Ilhan Omar


Ilhan Omar assumed office as U.S. representative for Minnesota's 5th Congressional District on Jan. 3, 2019. Omar, a Somali American, and Rashida Tlaib, U.S. representative for Michigan's 13th Congressional District and a Palestinian American, are the first Muslim women elected to Congress. Omar is the first Somali-American legislator elected to office in the United States. Omar was born in 1982 in Mogadishu, Somalia and was raised in Baydhabo, Somalia. In 1991, she and her family fled the civil war in Somalia, spending four years in a refugee camp in Kenya. […]
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi


Nancy Pelosi assumed office in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1987. She has won every election since, including the 2024 election. She served as speaker of the House from 2007-2011, and was elected to that position again in 2019 when the Democrats regained control of the House following the 2018 midterm elections, serving until 2023. In Congress, Pelosi was the first woman to lead a major political party, to serve as Democratic whip and to serve as speaker of the House, the highest elective office in the United States […]
Mary Peltola
Mary Peltola


Mary Peltola is the representative for Alaska’s at-large congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. On August 16, 2022, she won the special election for the seat following the death of Rep. Don Young, and then also won the general election on Nov. 8, 2022. Peltola, a Yup’ik Alaska Native, is first Alaska Native member of Congress and the first woman to represent Alaska in the House of Representatives. Peltola was born in Anchorage, Alaska on August 31, 1973 and raised on the Kuskokwim River in Kwethluk, Tuntutuliak, Platinum, […]
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 […]