by Michele Genthon | May 4, 2018 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
There were two major developments for First Woman in the U.S. Senate this year. One received extensive press coverage; the other did not. Tammy Duckworth Tammy Duckworth, Senator from Illinois, holds many firsts: –First Woman double amputee of the Iraq War...
by Michele Genthon | Apr 9, 2017 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
When people keep telling you, you can’t do a thing, you kind of like to try. [Margaret Chase Smith] The First Woman who served in the Senate was Rebecca Latimer Felton in 1922. The governor of the state of Georgia had not supported the Nineteenth Amendment...
by Michele Genthon | Nov 10, 2014 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
It’s hard to believe it took until 2014, but Iowa just elected its first woman to serve in Congress. Joni Ernst won her seat by casting herself as a “farm girl” who was comfortable castrating pigs. In Utah, Mia Love was the first black female Republican elected to the...
by Michele Genthon | Dec 30, 2013 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
When I featured Margaret Chase Smith as the Woman of Note on December 14, I knew she was a woman of many firsts. It was not until I researched further that I learned she was also a woman of great wisdom whose words resonate today....
by Michele Genthon | Oct 28, 2013 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
Dianne Feinstein’s career has been a succession of firsts: –the first woman to be President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors –the first woman to be Mayor of San Francisco –the first woman elected Senator from the State of California...
