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She faced health care worker and conservative activist Jennifer Zielinski in the November 6 general election [64] and won with 78.0% of the vote, becoming the first Somali American elected to the U.S. Congress, the first woman of color to serve as a U.S. Representative from Minnesota, [13] and (alongside former Michigan state representative ...
First of two Muslim women in Congress. First Muslim to succeed another Muslim. Born to a Muslim family in Somalia and immigrated as a refugee to the United States in 1995. [6] Rashida Tlaib: Democratic: MI-13: January 3, 2019: Incumbent 6 years, 44 days First of two Muslim women in Congress. Born to a Muslim family of Palestinian immigrants. [7 ...
Tlaib and Omar were also the first Muslim women in Congress. [3] The U.S. House of Representatives currently has five Arab-American members. The first Assyrian American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives was Adam Benjamin in 1977, [4] and the first Persian-American U.S. representative was Stephanie Bice in 2021. [5]
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First Muslim woman to serve as a United States federal judge. [24] Robert D. Crane – former foreign policy advisor; author [25] Sada Cumber – first US envoy to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference [26] Hamida Dakane – first Black and first Muslim to serve in the North Dakota House of Representatives [27]
The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the country’s largest Muslim advocacy group, organized three separate protests at various locations Biden visited Wednesday ...
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Mee Moua (RPA: Mim Muas, Pahawh: 𖬂𖬦 𖬑𖬲𖬦; born June 30, 1969, in Xieng Khouang, Laos), is an American politician, and is the former president and executive director of the Asian Americans Advancing Justice-AAJC (Advancing Justice-AAJC) [1] She served as the vice president for strategic impact initiatives at the Asian & Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) from 2011–12, [2 ...