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Mary Bono
Mary Bono


Mary Bono represented California's 45th District in the United States House of Representatives from 1998-2012. She was elected through a special election, after the death of her husband, U.S. Rep. Sonny Bono. Bono was born October 24, 1961, in Cleveland, Ohio, and raised in South Pasadena, California. She graduated from the University of Southern California with a Bachelor of Arts in art history in 1984. She married entertainer Sonny Bono in 1986, and worked as a personal fitness instructor and helped managed Bono’s businesses. During Sonny Bono's term as mayor […]
Madeleine Bordallo
Madeleine Bordallo


Madeleine Z. Bordallo served as the delegate from the U.S. territory of Guam to the U.S. House of Representatives from 2003-2019, the first woman to represent Guam in Congress. Bordallo was born in Graceville, Minnesota, on May 31, 1933, and moved to Guam after her father took a job with the Guam Department of Education. In the 1950s and 1960s, she worked for radio and television broadcaster KUAM, an NBC affiliate that was the first television station in Guam. Bordallo's husband served as governor of Guam from 1975-1978 and again […]
Carolyn Bourdeaux
Carolyn Bourdeaux


Carolyn Bourdeaux served as the U.S. representative for Georgia's 7th Congressional District from 2021-2023. Bourdeaux earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University, an M.P.A. from the University of Southern California and a Ph.D. in public administration from Syracuse University. She has been a professor at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University since 2003. From 2007 to 2010, she took a leave of absence to be director of Georgia’s Senate Budget and Evaluation Office. Bourdeaux was the 2018 Democratic nominee for Georgia's 7th congressional district in […]
Barbara Boxer
Barbara L Boxer


Barbara Boxer served as a U.S. senator from California from 1993 to 2017. Boxer was born November 11, 1940, in Brooklyn, New York. She received a bachelor's degree in economics from Brooklyn College in 1962. She first worked in politics in 1968 as a volunteer for the Eugene McCarthy presidential campaign. In 1970 she helped found an antiwar organization, the Marin Alternative, to protest the war in Vietnam. She worked as a journalist for Pacific Sun from 1972 to 1974, and from 1974 to 1976, she was as an aide […]
Susan Brooks
Susan Brooks


Susan Brooks served as the U.S. Representative for Indiana's 5th District from 2013-2021. Brooks was born in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, on August 25, 1960, and graduated from Homestead High School. She received her B.A. from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, in 1982, and her J.D. from Indiana University in 1985. Previously, Brooks has served as deputy mayor of Indianapolis, practiced law at an Indianapolis law firm, served as a U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, and as senior vice president and general counsel for Ivy Tech Community College. […]
Corrine Brown
Corrine Brown


Corrine Brown represented Florida's 3rd District in the United States House of Representatives from 1993-2013, and after redistricting, represented the 5th District from 2013-2017. Brown was born November 11, 1946, in Jacksonville, Florida. She graduated from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in 1969 with a bachelor's degree, and completed her master's (1971) and education specialist (1974) degrees from the University of Florida. Brown has served on faculty at Florida Community College at Jacksonville, the University of Florida and Edward Waters College. Prior to serving in Washington, Brown served in the […]
Shontel Brown
Shontel Brown


Shontel Brown is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Ohio's 11th Congressional District. She assumed office on November 4, 2021, winning the special election after Rep. Marcia Fudge resigned to become Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Brown won a full term in the 2022 general election. Brown was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She earned an Associate of Science degree in business management from Cuyahoga Community College and a Bachelor of Science in organizational management from Wilberforce University. She was a member of the Cuyahoga County Council […]
Ginny Brown-Waite
Ginny Brown-Waite


Virginia "Ginny" Brown-Waite represented Florida;s 5th Congressional District from 2003 to 2011. A native of Albany, New York, Brown-Waite was born on October 5, 1943. She received a bachelor's degree in public administration from the University of New York at Albany in 1976 and a masters of science in public administration Russell Sage College in Troy, New York, in 1984. Brown-Waite served as a staffer and then legislative director of the New York State Senate. She served as a Hernando County, Florida, commissioner from 1990-1992 and as a Florida state […]
Julia Brownley
Julia Brownley


Julia Brownley was elected to U.S. House of Representatives in 2012, representing California's 26th District. Brownley was born on August 28, 1952. After graduating with a B.A. in political science from George Washington University and an M.B.A. from American University, she worked in marketing before beginning her time in public service. She began her career in public service as a school board member in 1994, where she served three terms. Brownley was elected to the California state legislature in 2006, where she served as chairwoman of the Assembly Education Committee […]
Ann Marie Buerkle
Ann Marie Buerkle


Ann Marie Buerkle represented New York State's 25th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives from 2011-2013. Buerkle was born Ann Marie Colella on May 8, 1951, in Auburn, New York. In 1972 she graduated from St. Joseph's Hospital School of Nursing, certified as a registered nurse, and worked at New York's City Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital. In 1977, she completed her Bachelor of Science at Le Moyne College. In 1991, she returned to school and received her Juris Doctorate at Syracuse University College of Law in 1994. In 1987 […]