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Jersey is located at (33.716872, -83.803943 [ 6 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 0.8 square miles (2.1 km 2 ), all land.
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First African-American woman elected to the Georgia General Assembly [51] Sarah Porter Hillhouse (1763–1831) 2006 First woman editor and printer in Georgia [52] Alice Woodby McKane (1865–1948) 2005 First female doctor in Savannah [53] Nina Anderson Pape (1869–1944) 2005 Educator [54] Jeannette Pickering Rankin (1880–1973) 2005
Georgia Tech President Blake R. Van Leer. Carlos Valdes, actor and singer; Blake R. Van Leer, President of Georgia Tech, the first to admit women and fought against segregationist Governor Griffin; Ella Lillian Wall Van Leer, artist and architect, women's rights activist; Fernando Velasco, football player; born in New York
Georgia Neese Clark Gray was the first woman Treasurer of the United States; she served under President Harry Truman. [113] [4] Eugenie Anderson became the first woman ever to serve as a chief of mission at the ambassador rank, and as such the first woman to serve as United States Ambassador to Denmark; she served under President Harry S ...
Eva L. Sloan: [55] First female lawyer in Milledgeville, Georgia [Baldwin County, Georgia] Alene Hardin (c. 1918): [56] First female lawyer in Macon, Georgia [Bibb County, Georgia] Faye Sanders Martin (1956): [57] First woman to practice law in Bulloch County, Georgia. She would later become the first female Ogeechee Judicial Circuit judge. [58]
Many women also serve in the field of law enforcement and the government. However, no women are allowed to become priests of the Orthodox church or Muslim mullahs. [8] The so-called "traditional stereotypes of gender-defined social roles" are undergoing changes because of the education being received by new generation of women. [8]
Mrs. Adele (wife of Solomon S.) Youmans, [108] first woman mayor of Oak Park, Georgia [109] 1978. Carrie Kent, first African-American woman mayor of Walthourville, Georgia [110] 1991. Susan Weiner, first woman elected Mayor of Savannah, Georgia [111] 2001. Shirley Franklin, first woman and black woman elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia [112] 2010