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Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Chisholm


Shirley Chisholm served as a New York U.S. Representative from 1969 to 1982. She was the first African American woman to serve in the United States Congress, and the first African American candidate to seek a major party's nomination for president, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. Chisholm was born November 30, 1924, in Brooklyn, New York. From age three to ten, Chisholm lived with her grandmother in Barbados, then returned to New York. Chisholm attended Brooklyn College, graduating in 1946 with a bachelor's […]
Donna Christensen
Donna Christensen


Donna Christensen assumed office January 1997, representing the United States Virgin Islands' At-Large District in the United States House of Representatives. She was the first female physician to serve in Congress. She was also the first female representative of an offshore territory and the first female delegate from the U.S. Virgin Islands. Christensen was born September 19, 1945, in Teaneck, New Jersey. She completed her Bachelor of Science in 1966 at St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana, and received her Doctor of Medicine in 1970 from George Washington University's […]
Judy Chu
Judy Chu


Judy Chu assumed office in the U.S. House of Representatives in July 2009, winning the special election for the 32nd District seat vacated by Hilda Solis after Solis was confirmed as President Obama's secretary of labor. Chu is the first Chinese American woman to serve in Congress. After the 2011 redistricting, Chu represented the 27th District from 2013-2023, and following the 2021 redistricting, she now represents the 28th District. Chu was born July 7, 1953, in Los Angeles, California. She graduated from the University of California Los Angeles with a […]
Katherine Clark
Katherine Clark


Katherine Clark represents the 5th Congressional District of Massachusetts. She was first elected in a special election on December 10, 2013, to succeed Sen. Ed Markey, who resigned after being elected to fill John Kerry's seat following his nomination as U.S. secretary of state. She served as assistant speaker (assistant House Democratic leader) from 2021-2023, and currently serves as House minority whip. Clark was born July 17, 1963, in New Haven, Connecticut. She graduated from St. Lawrence University, Cornell Law School and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. […]
Yvette Clarke
Yvette D Clarke


Yvette D. Clarke assumed office January 2007, representing New York's 11th District in the United States House of Representatives. After New York's redistricting in 2011, she won re-election in District 9. Clarke was born November 21, 1964, in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Oberlin College in Ohio. Prior to serving in Congress, Clarke served on the New York City Council from 2002 to 2007, representing the 40th District in Brooklyn. She succeeded her mother, Una S. T. Clarke, becoming part of the first mother-daughter succession in the council's history. For […]
Cardiss Collins
Cardiss Collins


Cardiss Hortense Collins served in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1997, after first being elected in a special election to replace her husband, George Collins, who had died in office. She was the first African American woman to be elected to Congress from Illinois, and the first woman and first African American to serve as Democratic Whip-at-Large. Between 1983 and 1990, she was the only Black woman serving in the House of Representatives. Collins was born September 24, 1931, in St. Louis, Missouri. Attending night classes […]
Barbara Comstock
Barbara Comstock


U.S. Rep. Barbara Comstock was elected in November 2014 to serve Virginia's 10th district. She held the position until 2019. Comstock was born on June 30, 1959, in Springfield, Massachusetts. She graduated from Middlebury College and attended law school at Georgetown University. She began her congressional career as an intern for Sen. Ted Kennedy. Comstock has worked as a lawyer in private practice, as a staffer for former U.S. Congressman Frank Wolf (1991 to 1995), and as chief investigative counsel and senior counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee […]
Angie Craig
Angie Craig


Angie Craig has served in the U.S. House of Representatives for Minnesota since 2019, representing the 2nd District. Craig was born in West Helena, Arkansas, on February 14, 1972. She graduated from the University of Memphis. After graduation, she worked as a journalist. Most recently, she worked for the St. Paul, Minnesota, St. Jude Medical Center. Her work has involved health policy, media and government relations, and corporate communications. She has led St. Jude's Global Human Resources group since 2011, launching a Women in Business program that brought more women […]
Kathy Dahlkemper
Kathy A Dahlkemper


Kathy Dahlkemper represented Pennsylvania's 3rd Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives from 2009 to 2011. While serving in the House of Representatives, Dahlkemper prioritized the growth of local small businesses to create better economic conditions. Born December 9, 1957, in Erie, Pennsylvania, Dahlkemper graduated from Edinboro State College (now Edinboro University of Pennsylvania) in 1982 with a degree in dietetics. She worked for twenty years as a clinical dietician in the Erie area, but in 1997, she and her husband opened Dahlkemper Landscape Architects and Contractors. Dahlkemper […]
Sharice Davids
Sharice Davids


Sharice Davids assumed office as the U.S. representative for Kansas' 3rd Congressional District on Jan. 3, 2019. Davids and Deb Haaland were the first Native American women elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Davids earned an Associate of Arts degree in liberal arts from Johnson County Community College in 2003, a Bachelor of Arts in business administration from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 2007, and a Juris Doctor from Cornell Law School in 2010. She has worked as a White House fellow in the Department of Transportation, chair […]