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As Secretary of the House Republican Caucus, Cressingham was the first woman to fill a leadership position in an American legislature. [6] In 1896, Martha Hughes Cannon became the first woman elected to an upper body of a state legislature when she defeated her own husband, Angus M. Cannon, for a seat in the Utah State Senate. [7] [8]
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The first woman to be elected to Congress was Montana's Jeannette Rankin, a Republican, in the 1916 House elections; [2] notably, this occurred before the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, which prohibits the federal government or any state from denying citizens the right to vote on the basis of sex. [3]
Women aspiring to higher office in our survey generally listed county office, judicial office or Congress; very few mentioned the Legislature, a natural step up from local office.
Gender parity in the legislature – which women briefly achieved in 2023 – didn’t change that, Cutter said. “The systems are so ingrained, and the power structure is so ingrained.”
It's a huge jump toward gender equality in California's Capitol, where only men have served as governor and women made up one-quarter of state lawmakers just eight years ago.
The Legislature convenes on Jan. 21 for 60 days, its only scheduled session in 2025. Women in New Mexico already dominate the other top echelons of state government — holding the governor’s office over four consecutive terms. Three seats out of five on the state Supreme Court are held by women.
The five new women were Democrats Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, and Republican Deb Fischer of Nebraska. Hirono was the first Asian-American woman and first Buddhist in the Senate, and Baldwin was the first openly gay person in the Senate.