Women in U.S. Government
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff
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- Abzug, Bella Savitsky, U.S. congresswoman
- Albright, Madeleine , former U.S. Secretary of State
- Bachmann, Michele, U.S. Congresswoman, Former 2012 U.S. presidential candidate
- Black, Shirley Temple, U.S. ambassador
- Boxer, Barbara , U.S. Senator
- Caraway, Hattie Wyatt, first woman elected to U.S. Senate
- Carson, Julia, U.S. congresswoman
- Chisholm, Shirley Anita St. Hill, U.S. congresswoman
- Clement, Edith Brown, U.S. jurist
- Clinton, Hillary Rodham, U.S. Secretary of State, former U.S. Senator
- Davis, Wendy, Texas Senator
- Dole, Elizabeth Hanford, U.S. public official
- Elders, Joycelyn, former U.S. Surgeon General
- Feinstein, Dianne, U.S. senator
- Ferraro, Geraldine Anne, U.S. politician
- Giffords, Gabrielle, U.S. Representative
- Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, U.S. Supreme Court justice
- Grasso, Ella Tambussi, first U.S. woman elected governor on own merits, congresswoman
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- Hobby, Oveta Culp, first secretary of Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare
- Jones, Stephanie Tubbs, U.S. congresswoman
- Jordan, Barbara Charline, U.S. congresswoman
- Kagan, Elena, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- Kassebaum, Nancy Landon, former U.S. senator
- Kirkpatrick, Jeane Duane Jordan, U.N. representative
- Liliuokalani, last reigning Hawaiian queen
- Luce, Clare Boothe U.S. congresswoman, ambassador
- Mankiller, Wilma, Cherokee Nation chief
- Miers, Harriet, White House Counsel
- Mink, Patsy, U.S. congresswoman
- Moseley-Braun, Carol, lawyer and former U.S. senator
- Motley, Constance Baker, judge and lawyer
- Norton, Eleanor Holmes, Washington, D.C. delegate to congress, government official
- Norton, Gale, public official
- Novello, Antonia, former U.S. Surgeon General
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- O'Connor, Sandra Day, U.S. Supreme Court justice
- Pelosi, Nancy Patricia, U.S. congresswoman, first female Speaker of the House
- Perkins, Frances, first woman to serve in U.S. cabinet
- Rankin, Jeannette, first woman to serve in U.S. Congress
- Reno, Janet, U.S. Attorney General
- Rice, Condoleezza, National Security Advisor, diplomat
- Rogers, Edith Nourse, U.S. congresswoman
- Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana, U.S. congresswoman
- Schroeder, Patricia politician
- Selby, Myra C. attorney, jurist
- Shalala, Donna educator, administrator, public official
- Smith, Margaret Chase, U.S. senator
- Snowe, Olympia, U.S. congresswoman, senator
- Sotomayor, Sonia, the first Latina U.S. Supreme Court justice
- Velasquez, Nydia, U.S. congresswoman
- Waters, Maxine, U.S. congresswoman
- Whitman, Christine Todd, U.S. politician, public official
- Woods, Harriet, U.S. politician, feminist leader
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