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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. [3] She was president and CEO of the Business Council of Alabama from 2019 to 2021, and was chief of staff for her Senate predecessor, Richard Shelby, from 2016 to 2018.
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
Nancy Ruth Mace (born December 4, 1977) is an American politician who has been the U.S. representative for South Carolina's 1st congressional district since 2021. She is a member of the Republican Party.
Alabama Sen. Katie Britt, the youngest Republican woman elected to the US Senate, criticized President Biden and his administration over a wide range of issues as she delivered the GOP’s ...
As a percentage of total candidates within their party, Republican women have had a more significant drop in 2024, making up 18% of total House GOP candidates compared with 21% during the 2022 ...
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 ...
Ernst was elected vice chair of the Senate Republican Conference in November 2018. [84] Ernst (far right) at the signing of the INSPIRE Women Act at the White House, 2017. On the initiation of the 116th United States Congress in 2019, Ernst became the first female Republican to be appointed to the Senate Judiciary Committee, along with Marsha ...
The number of GOP women is decreasing in the House and Congress overall but staying the same in the Senate. ... Republican women see declines in Congress. ... election, GOP women shattered their ...