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Lizzie Pannill Fletcher
Lizzie Pannill Fletcher


Lizzie Pannill Fletcher assumed office as the U.S. representative for Texas' 7th Congressional District on Jan. 3, 2019. Fletcher earned a Bachelor of Arts in history from Kenyon College in 1997 and a Juris Doctor from William & Mary Law School in 2006. She is an attorney who has worked in international and business law. For information on Fletcher's policy subject areas, committee appointments and sponsored/co-sponsored legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives, please visit her profile on https://www.congress.gov.
Virginia Foxx
Virginia Foxx


Virginia Foxx assumed office in January 2005, representing North Carolina's 5th District in the United States House of Representatives. Foxx was born June 29, 1943, in Bronx, New York. She received her bachelor's degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her master's and doctoral degrees at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. Foxx served as a research assistant at UNC and as an English professor and in university administration at Appalachian State University. From 1987 to 1994, she served as Mayland Community College president. She […]
Lois Frankel
Lois Frankel


Lois Frankel has served as a U.S. representative for Florida since 2013. She served the 22nd District from 2013-2017, the 21st District from 2017-2023, and currently serves the 22nd District again. Frankel was born in New York, New York, on May 16, 1948. She received a B.A. from Boston University and J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. Previously she served 14 years in the Florida state legislature, and became the first woman to serve as Democratic minority leader. She was then elected mayor of West Palm Beach in 2003 and […]
Marcia Fudge
Marcia L Fudge


Marcia L. Fudge served as U.S. secretary of housing and urban development from March 10, 2021-March 22, 2024. Previously, she represented Ohio's 11th District in the United States House of Representatives from 2008-2021. Fudge was born October 29, 1952. She completed her Bachelor of Science degree in business administration at The Ohio State University in 1975, and in 1983, she received her law degree from Cleveland State University. From 2000-2008, Fudge served as the mayor of Warrensville Heights, Ohio, becoming the city's first female and first African American elected as […]
Tulsi Gabbard
Tulsi Gabbard


Tulsi Gabbard served as the representative for Hawaii's 2nd Congressional District from 2013-2021, the first American Samoan Congresswoman and first practicing Hindu member of Congress. In February 2019, she announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States, the first female combat veteran to run for U.S. president. She suspended her presidential campaign on March 19, 2020. Gabbard was born on April 12, 1981, in Leloaloa, American Samoa. She received a B.S.B.A. in business administration from Hawaii Pacific University in 2009. Her father, Mike Gabbard, has […]
Sylvia Garcia
Sylvia Garcia


Sylvia Garcia assumed office as U.S. representative for Texas's 29th Congressional District on Jan. 3, 2019. She and Veronica Escobar, U.S. representative for Texas's 16th Congressional District, are the first Hispanic women to represent Texas in the U.S. House. Garcia was born September 6, 1950, in Palito Blanco, Texas. After earning a Bachelor of Arts in social work from Texas Women's University, she worked as a social worker. She later received a Doctor of Jurisprudence from Texas Southern University. In the early 1980s, Houston Mayor Kathryn Whitmire appointed Garcia as […]
Madison Gesiotto Gilbert
Madison Gesiotto Gilbert


Madison Gesiotto Gilbert ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Ohio’s 13th congressional district in 2022, losing in the general election. Gesiotto Gilbert was born on March 20, 1992. She was raised in Stark County, Ohio. She attended The Ohio State University, where she earned a degree in political science in 2014. She would then attend law school at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and earn a Juris Doctor degree in 2017. While in law school, she served as a staff editor on the Ohio […]
Gabrielle Giffords
Gabrielle Giffords


Gabrielle Giffords assumed office in January 2007, representing Arizona's 8th District in the United States House of Representatives until January 2012. Giffords is the third woman elected from Arizona to serve in the United States Congress. Giffords was born June 8, 1970, in Tucson, Arizona. In 1993, she completed her B.A. in sociology and Latin American history at Scripps College in California. From 1993 to 1994, she studied in Chihuahua, Mexico, as a Fulbright Scholar. After returning to the United States, Gifford studied at Cornell University, completing her master's degree […]
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten E Gillibrand


Kirsten Gillibrand assumed office as a United States senator from New York in January 2009, after being appointed to fill the seat vacated by Senator Hillary Clinton when she became U.S. secretary of state for the Obama Administration. Gillibrand won a special election in 2010, and full terms since. In March 2019, she announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States, but withdrew from the race in August 2019. Gillibrand was born December 9, 1966, near Albany, NY. She graduated from Dartmouth College with a […]
Jenniffer González-Colón
Jenniffer González-Colón


Jenniffer González-Colón has served as the resident commissioner of Puerto Rico, representing the island in the U.S. House of Representatives, since 2017. She is the youngest person and the first woman to be resident commissioner. González-Colón was born in San Juan on August 5, 1976. She received her bachelor's degree in political science at the University of Puerto Rico, and her J.D. and L.L.M. from the Inter American University of Puerto Rico School of Law. Her career in elective politics started when she won a special election in the Puerto […]