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It includes a list of all women who have served in the Senate, a list of current female senators, and a list of states represented by women in the Senate. The first female U.S. senator, Rebecca Latimer Felton , represented Georgia for a single day in 1922, and the first woman elected to the Senate, Hattie Caraway , was elected from Arkansas in ...
Her record was surpassed in 2012 by Mikulski, who served a total of 40 years in Congress from 1977 to 2017 (10 years in the House of Representatives and 30 years in the Senate). Maxine Waters and Eleanor Holmes Norton , both inaugurated in 1991, are the longest-serving African-American women (and women of color) in the House.
In 1917, Montana was the first state to send a woman to the House of Representatives and to Congress; in 2023, Vermont became the most recent state to send its first woman to the House, and in 2025, North Dakota will do the same to Congress. Women have also been sent to Congress from five of the six territories of the United States; the final ...
Eleven Black women serve in statewide elected posts, 28 are in Congress and two are U.S. delegates, according to the Center for American Women and Politics. There is one Black woman in the Senate ...
Name Image State Legislative Body Party Mandate start Mandate end Term length Minnie D. Craig North Dakota House of Representatives: Republican/NPL: January 3, 1933
On Thursday, 20 women were sworn into the senate -- four more women than have ever served in the Senate in the entire history of the country. The winds of change were roaring in the U.S. Capitol ...
Blackburn was sworn in as a U.S. senator on January 3, 2019. She is the first woman in history to represent Tennessee in the U.S. Senate. [50] Upon the retirement of Senator Lamar Alexander in 2021, Blackburn became the senior U.S. senator from Tennessee. [51] Committee assignments [52] Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Katie Elizabeth Britt (née Boyd; born February 2, 1982) is an American politician and attorney serving since 2023 as the junior United States senator from Alabama.A member of the Republican Party, Britt is the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate from Alabama and the youngest Republican woman to be elected to the Senate. [1]