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Ellen Tauscher
Ellen Tauscher


Ellen Tauscher served as the U.S. under secretary of state for arms control and international security from 2009 to 2012, then as special envoy for strategic stability and missile defense in 2012. Previously, she represented California's 10th District in the United States House of Representatives from January 1997 to June 2009. Tauscher was born November 15, 1951, in Newark, New Jersey. In 1974, she completed her Bachelor of Arts in early childhood education from Seton Hall University. During her 14-year career on Wall Street, Tauscher was one of the first […]
Claudia Tenney
Claudia Tenney


Claudia Tenney is the U.S. representative for New York's 22nd congressional district. She served from 2017-2019, lost her seat in the 2018 election, and regained the seat in the 2020 election. Tenney was born February 4, 1961. She is the daughter of former New York State Supreme Court Justice John R. Tenney. She graduated from Colgate University in 1983 and from the Taft College of Law at the University of Cincinnati. Tenney is co-owner and legal counsel to Mid-York Press, Inc., a commercial printing and manufacturing firm started by her […]
Dina Titus
Dina Titus


Alice Costandina "Dina" Titus served Nevada's 3rd Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives from 2009 to 2011. In 2012, she was elected as the U.S. Representative for Nevada's 1st District. Titus was born May 23, 1950, in Thomasville Georgia and grew up in Tifton, Georgia. She received her bachelor's degree from the College William and Mary, a master's degree from the University of Georgia and a doctorate degree from Florida State University. Following graduation from Florida State University, Titus taught at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas […]
Rashida Tlaib
Rashida Tlaib


Rashida Tlaib has served in the U.S. House of Representatives for Michigan since 2019, representing the 13th District until 2023 and the 12th District since then. Tlaib, a Palestinian American, and Ilhan Omar, U.S. representative from Minnesota and a Somali American, were the first Muslim women elected to Congress. Tlaib previously served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2009 to 2014, only the second Muslim woman to be elected to a state legislature in the United States. Tlaib was born July 24, 1976, in Detroit, Michigan, to Palestinian immigrants. […]
Norma Torres
Norma Torres


Norma J. Torres assumed office in the U.S. House of Representatives in California's 35th District in January 2015. Torres was born April 4, 1965, in Guatemala and immigrated to the United States when she was five years old. She received her bachelor's degree in labor studies from the National Labor College in Silver Springs, Maryland. Torres worked as a 911 dispatcher from 1990 to 2008. In 1994 she led a campaign to require the hiring of bilingual 911 operators. She was an active member of AFSCME and Local #3090's of […]
Xochitl Torres Small
Xochitl Torres Small


Xochitl Torres Small served as the U.S. representative for the 2nd Congressional District of New Mexico from 2019-2021. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as deputy secretary of agriculture on July 11, 2023, the first Latina to hold that position. Torres Small grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She graduated from Georgetown University, then returned to Las Cruces and served as field representative for Senator Tom Udall. She went on to earn her law degree from the University of New Mexico and practiced natural resource and […]
Lori Trahan
Lori Trahan


Lori Trahan assumed office as U.S. representative for Massachusetts' 3rd Congressional District on Jan. 3, 2019. Trahan was born October 27, 1973, in Lowell, Massachusetts. She graduated from Georgetown University with a Bachelor of Arts in comparative and regional studies in international relations. After college, Trahan worked for U.S. Representative Marty Meehan, eventually becoming his chief of staff. In 2005, Trahan went to work for ChoiceStream, a marketing software company. She became the CEO of the Concire Leadership Institute, a small, woman-owned consulting firm. For information on Trahan's policy subject […]
Niki Tsongas
Niki Tsongas


Niki Tsongas represented Massachusetts' 5th District in the United States House of Representatives from 2007-2013, and then the 3rd District from 2013-2019 following redistricting. Tsongas was born April 26, 1946, in Chico, California. She graduated from Narimasu American High School in Tokyo, Japan, in 1964. Tsongas attended Michigan State University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Smith College in 1968. She received her Juris Doctorate from Boston University in 1988. Prior to serving in Congress, Tsongas worked as a social worker, lawyer and dean of external affairs at […]
Lauren Underwood
Lauren Underwood


Lauren Underwood assumed office as the U.S. representative for Illinois’ 14th District on Jan. 3, 2019. Underwood was born on October 4, 1986, in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, and grew up in Naperville, Illinois. She worked on the Naperville's Fair Housing Advisory Commission from 2003-2004. She earned a Bachelor of Science in nursing from the University of Michigan in 2008, and a Master of Science in nursing and Master of Public Health in public health nursing and health policy from Johns Hopkins University in 2009. Prior to her election to Congress, […]
Nydia Velazquez
Nydia Velazquez


Nydia Velazquez assumed office in January 1993, representing New York's 12th District in the United States House of Representatives. Velazquez was the first Puerto Rican woman elected to the United States House of Representatives, the first Hispanic woman to serve as a ranking member of a full House committee, and the first Latina to chair a full Congressional committee. After New York's redistricting in 2012, she won re-election in District 7. Velazquez was born March 28, 1953, in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. She received her Bachelor of Arts in political science […]