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Women Appointed to Presidential Cabinets - Produced by the Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics from Rutgers University. Retrieved May 4, 2019. Women Members Who Became Cabinet Members and United States Diplomats - Provided by the U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Historian. Part of the History, Art ...
The following is a list of women who have been elected or appointed head of state or government of their respective countries since the interwar period (1918–1939). The first list includes female presidents who are heads of state and may also be heads of government, as well as female heads of government who are not concurrently head of state, such as prime ministers.
Appointed as the at-large representative when Ayanna Pressley was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018. She had previously served in the Massachusetts House in the 1990s. Kathryn Ottersten None [69] Fairbanks, Alaska: City Council, Seat D 2019–2020 Ottersten was the first openly intersex person elected in Alaska. [70] [71 ...
First female to preside over the House – Alice Mary Robertson of Oklahoma - 1921 [citation needed] First woman to be appointed to the United States Senate - Rebecca Latimer Felton - 1922 [275] First woman to be elected to the United States Senate - Hattie Caraway - 1932 [276] First female to preside over the Senate – Hattie Caraway of ...
The House included approximately a dozen women in the 1950s. Even with women in office, women's views and interests were rarely addressed. In 1964, chairman of the Rules Committee, Howard Smith, introduced a sexual discrimination amendment to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, in an attempt to make it too controversial to pass. His efforts ...
Women make up 51 percent of the U.S. population. And though we are by no means a monolith — in fact, we fall into every ethnic, socioeconomic, religious and ideological group — we have historically been underrepresented politically. This underrepresentation makes our political participation even more imperative.
The reading clerk of the United States House of Representatives reads bills, motions, and other papers before the House and keeps track of changes to legislation made on the floor. During the vote for Speaker at the beginning of each Congress , or when the electronic voting system fails, the clerk calls the roll of members for a recorded vote .
After Harris was expelled from the Arizona House of Representatives, Willoughby was one of three names submitted to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to be appointed to replace Harris. [8] In a 4–1 vote, the Board of Supervisors selected Willoughby and she was sworn in the same day. [9] She won in 2024 alongside Jeff Weninger. [10]