Notable Women in U.S. Government

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

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• Abzug, Bella Savitsky, U.S. congresswoman
• Albright, Madeleine , former U.S. Secretary of State
• Bachmann, Michele, U.S. Congresswoman, Former 2012 U.S. presidential candidate
• Black, Shirley Temple, U.S. ambassador
• Boxer, Barbara , U.S. Senator
• Caraway, Hattie Wyatt, first woman elected to U.S. Senate
• Carson, Julia, U.S. congresswoman
• Chisholm, Shirley Anita St. Hill, U.S. congresswoman
• Clement, Edith Brown, U.S. jurist
• Clinton, Hillary Rodham, U.S. Secretary of State, former U.S. Senator
• Davis, Wendy, Texas Senator
• Dole, Elizabeth Hanford, U.S. public official
• Elders, Joycelyn, former U.S. Surgeon General
• Feinstein, Dianne, U.S. senator
• Ferraro, Geraldine Anne, U.S. politician
• Giffords, Gabrielle, U.S. Representative
• Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, U.S. Supreme Court justice
• Grasso, Ella Tambussi, first U.S. woman elected governor on own merits, congresswoman

H-N

• Hobby, Oveta Culp, first secretary of Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare
• Jones, Stephanie Tubbs, U.S. congresswoman
• Jordan, Barbara Charline, U.S. congresswoman
• Kagan, Elena, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
• Kassebaum, Nancy Landon, former U.S. senator
• Kirkpatrick, Jeane Duane Jordan, U.N. representative
• Liliuokalani, last reigning Hawaiian queen
• Luce, Clare Boothe U.S. congresswoman, ambassador
• Mankiller, Wilma, Cherokee Nation chief
• Miers, Harriet, White House Counsel
• Mink, Patsy, U.S. congresswoman
• Moseley-Braun, Carol, lawyer and former U.S. senator
• Motley, Constance Baker, judge and lawyer
• Norton, Eleanor Holmes, Washington, D.C. delegate to congress, government official
• Norton, Gale, public official
• Novello, Antonia, former U.S. Surgeon General

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• O'Connor, Sandra Day, U.S. Supreme Court justice
• Pelosi, Nancy Patricia, U.S. congresswoman, first female Speaker of the House
• Perkins, Frances, first woman to serve in U.S. cabinet
• Rankin, Jeannette, first woman to serve in U.S. Congress
• Reno, Janet, U.S. Attorney General
• Rice, Condoleezza, National Security Advisor, diplomat
• Rogers, Edith Nourse, U.S. congresswoman
• Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana, U.S. congresswoman
• Schroeder, Patricia politician
• Selby, Myra C. attorney, jurist
• Shalala, Donna educator, administrator, public official
• Smith, Margaret Chase, U.S. senator
• Snowe, Olympia, U.S. congresswoman, senator
• Sotomayor, Sonia, the first Latina U.S. Supreme Court justice
• Velasquez, Nydia, U.S. congresswoman
• Waters, Maxine, U.S. congresswoman
• Whitman, Christine Todd, U.S. politician, public official
• Woods, Harriet, U.S. politician, feminist leader

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