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Kristi Noem
Kristi Noem


Kristi Noem was sworn in a 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 women 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 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 to be held by a woman prior to the election […]
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 […]
Stacey Plaskett
Stacey Plaskett


Stacey Plaskett is the non-voting delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from the U.S. Virgin Islands. She assumed office January 3, 2015. Plaskett was born on May 13, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York. Her parents are both from Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. She graduated with a degree in history and diplomacy from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. While a student at Georgetown, she ran for student government, was active in the anti-apartheid movement and spoke on behalf of universities in the DC […]
Katie Porter
Katie Porter


Katie Porter has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2019, representing California's 45th congressional district from 2019-2023 and the 47th district since 2023. On Jan. 10, 2023, Porter announced that she was running for the U.S. Senate seat held by Dianne Feinstein, who was to retire at the end of her term but subsequently passed away before the term ended. Porter came in third in California's top-two open primary system, behind fellow California U.S. representative Adam Schiff (Democrat) and former baseball star Steve Garvey (Republican). Porter was born […]
Ayanna Pressley
Ayanna Pressley


Ayanna Pressley assumed office as the U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 7th Congressional District on Jan. 3, 2019. Pressley previously served as an at-large member of the Boston City Council from 2010 to 2019. Pressley was the first African American woman elected to the Boston City Council and is the first African American woman elected to Congress from Massachusetts. Pressley was born February 3, 1974, in Chicago, Illinois. From 1992 to 1994, she attended the College of General Studies at Boston University, but left school to support her mother. She later […]