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Carla Provost became the first female chief of the United States Border Patrol on August 9, 2018. [322] [323] Deb Haaland of New Mexico and Sharice Davids of Kansas became the first Native American women to be elected to Congress. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota became the first Muslim women to be elected to Congress.
Kamala Harris, United States (2021–present): The first woman to be inaugurated as Vice President of the United States in American history. Sandra Mason, Barbados (2021–present): The first time that a country's first president was female (Barbados has not had a male president to date).
1870: The first all-female jury in America is sworn on March 7, 1870, in Laramie, Wyoming. [9] 1874: Mary Ewing Outerbridge, from Staten Island, introduces tennis to America, creating the first American tennis court at the Staten Island Cricket and Baseball Club. [12] 1892: The first women's basketball game was played at Smith College, and ...
Women's history is much more than chronicling a string of "firsts." Female pioneers have long fought for equal rights and demanded to be treated equally as they chartered new territory in fields ...
United States Trade Representative June 8, 2006: January 20, 2009 [65] 13 Lisa P. Jackson: Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency January 23, 2009: February 19, 2013: Democratic Obama [66] 14 Susan Rice: United States Ambassador to the United Nations January 26, 2009: June 30, 2013 [67] 15 Christina Romer: Chair of the Council of ...
Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president in the U.S. and she made her historic run in 1872 – before women even had the right to vote! She supported women's suffrage as well as welfare for the poor, and though it was frowned upon at the time, she didn't shy away from being vocal about sexual freedom.
In June 1863, Harriet Tubman became the first woman to plan and execute an armed expedition in United States history. Acting as an advisory to Colonel James Montgomery and his 300 soldiers, Tubman led them in a raid in South Carolina from Port Royal to the interior, some twenty-five miles up the Combahee River, where they freed approximately ...
First Asian American female to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court: Emma Ping Lum (1947) around 1958 [13] [14] First Latino American female to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court: Vilma Socorro Martínez (1967) in 1977 [40] [41] First Native American female to win a U.S. Supreme Court case: Arlinda Locklear (1976) in 1983 [42] [43 ...