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Maggie Hassan
Maggie Hassan


Margaret "Maggie" Hassan assumed office as a U.S. senator from New Hampshire in January 2017. Previously, she was governor of New Hampshire from 2013 to 2017. Hassan was born February 27, 1958, in Boston, Massachusetts. Her father, Robert Coldwell Wood, served as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the administration of Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson. Hassan earned her B.A. in history from Brown University in 1980 and a J.D. from the Northeastern School of Law in 1985. After graduating, she went into private practice and then worked […]
Heidi Heitkamp
Heidi Heitkamp


Heidi Heitkamp served as a U.S. senator from North Dakota from 2013 to 2019. She was North Dakota's second female senator, and the first to be elected. She lost her re-election bid in 2018. Heitkamp was born in Breckinridge, Minnesota, on October 30, 1955. She earned her bachelor's degree from the University of North Dakota in 1977 and J.D. from Lewis and Clark College in 1980. Heitkamp worked as an attorney for the Environmental Protection Agency from 1980 to 1981. From 1981-1986 she was an attorney for the North Dakota […]
Mazie K Hirono
Mazie K Hirono


Mazie K. Hirono assumed office in January 2013, representing Hawaii in the United States Senate. Hirono was born November 3, 1947, in Fukushima, Japan, and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. She graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1970 and completed her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center 1978. After graduation, Hirono worked in the antitrust division of the Hawaii attorney general's office. In 1980, Hirono was elected to the Hawaii state House of Representatives, serving from 1980 to 1994. In 1994, she served two four-year terms as […]
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Kay Bailey Hutchison


Kathryn Ann (Kay) Bailey Hutchison served in the United States Senate for Texas from 1993 to 2013, making her the first—and, to date, the only—woman elected to represent the state in the Senate. Hutchison was born born in Galveston, Texas, on July 22, 1943. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1962 and the University of Texas School of Law in 1967. Because law firms hired few women at that time, she began her professional career as a Houston television reporter covering state politics. In 1972, Hutchison […]
Cindy Hyde-Smith
Cindy Hyde-Smith


Cindy Hyde-Smith was appointed on April 9, 2018, to fill the U.S. Senate seat for Mississippi vacated by Thad Cochran, who resigned for health reasons. Hyde-Smith is the first women to represent Mississippi in Congress. She also won the 2018 special election for the remainder of Cochran's term, and in 2020 was elected for a full term. Hyde-Smith was born on born May 10, 1959, in Brookhaven, Mississippi. She is a graduate of Copiah-Lincoln Community College and the University of Southern Mississippi. Prior to her appointment to the U.S. Senate, […]
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar


Amy Klobuchar assumed office as Minnesota's first female United States senator in January 2007. In February 2019, she announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States. She suspended her campaign on March 2, 2020. Klobuchar was born May 25, 1960, in Plymouth, Minnesota. She graduated magna cum laude from Yale University in 1982 and completed her Juris Doctorate from the University of Chicago Law School in 1985. In 1998, after serving as a partner at two of Minnesota's leading law firms, Klobuchar was elected as […]
Mary Landrieu
Mary Landrieu


Mary Landrieu served as a U.S. senator for Louisiana from 1997-2015, the first woman elected the U.S. Senate from that state. (Elaine Edwards had been appointed to the Senate in 1972 by her husband, Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards, following the death of Allen Ellender and served from August 1, 1972 to November 13, 1972.) Landrieu was born on Nov. 23, 1995, in Arlington, Virginia, and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her father was Moon Landrieu, former mayor of New Orleans and secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban […]
Blanche Lambert Lincoln
Blanche Lambert Lincoln


Blanche Lambert Lincoln served as a U.S. senator for Arkansas from 1999-2011. Lincoln became the second woman from Arkansas and the youngest woman to ever be elected to the United States Senate. She was the first woman and the first Arkansan to serve as chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.Lincoln was born September 30, 1960, in Helena, Arkansas. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Randolph-Macon Women's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1982. After college, Lincoln served as a staff assistant […]
Cynthia M Lummis
Cynthia M Lummis


Cynthia Lummis was elected U.S. senator for Wyoming on November 3, 2020. Previously, she represented Wyoming in the United States House of Representatives from 2009 to 2017. Lummis was born September 10, 1954, in Cheyenne, Wyoming. She received bachelor degrees in animal science and biology from the University of Wyoming. In 1979, Lummis became the youngest woman ever elected to Wyoming Legislature, serving in the Wyoming House of Representatives until 1983. Lummis then returned to the University of Wyoming and completed her law degree in 1985. Following, she clerked at […]
Claire McCaskill
Claire McCaskill


Claire McCaskill served as a U.S. senator for Missouri from 2007-2019, the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate from Missouri. McCaskill was born July 24, 1953, in Rolla, Missouri. Her father, Bill McCaskill, served as Missouri state insurance commissioner and her mother, Betty Anne McCaskill, served on the Columbia City Council. McCaskill attended the University of Missouri, where she completed her Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1975 and Juris Doctorate in 1978. Following college, worked as a prosecutor. In 1982, she assumed office as a […]