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US Senator Alsobrooks previously served as County Executive for Prince George’s  County. She  wasthe first woman to hold the position and the first Black  woman  elected to the position of county executive in Maryland’s history.   

Congressmember Bass serves on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs where she is the Chair of the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations. 

Cheri Beasley has devoted her life to public service and to the people of North Carolina. In 2019, Cheri made history by becoming the first African American woman to serve as Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.

Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester is the current junior senator for Delaware. Previously, she served as Delaware’s At-Large Congressional District, where she has served the First State from 2017-2024.

Democratic candidate for Texas U.S. House District 22. Currently, she serves as the Iowa Colony, Mayor Pro Tem, Position 3.

Vice  President Kamala Harris has devoted her career to fighting for the  people. She has served the people in county courtrooms, the California  Attorney General’s office, the United States Senate, and the White  House. She is running for President of the United States to continue  protecting our freedoms, delivering justice, and expanding opportunity  so that every American can not just get by, but get ahead.

 Congresswoman Val Demings  serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; House Committee on the Judiciary; and House Committee on Homeland Security.

 Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge serves on the following committees: House Administration, Agriculture and Education and Labor.  She is the Chair of the House Administration Subcommittee on Elections and Chair of the Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight and Department Operations.  

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee is a senior member of the House Committees on the Judiciary and Homeland Security and the Budget Committee.  She is the first female Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee for Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

Congresswoman Johnson is the first African-American and woman to chair the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

Congresswoman Robin Kelly was elected to serve the 2nd Congressional District of Illinois in 2013  

Congresswoman Brenda L. Lawrence serves on the House Appropriations Committee and on the House Oversight and Reform Committee.

Congresswoman Barbara Lee serves on the Budget Committee and Appropriations Committee. She serves on three subcommittees (Vice Chair, State and Foreign Operations; Labor, Health and Human Services, Education; and Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration) of the Appropriations Committee.

Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman serves on the House Committees on Appropriations and Homeland Security.

In 2020 as we mark the 100th year that women have been allowed to vote in the USA, remember the Black women were on the front-lines of the suffrage movement. 

Elected to 12 consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, Late Rep. Cardiss Collins ranks as one of the longest–serving minority women in the history of Congress.

In 1972, Shirley Chisholm became the first of a handful of black women to run for a major political party's presidential ticket. She later said, “…our society is not yet either just or free,” a true statement to this day. Be the change, vote in local, state & federal elections! 

In 1962, Hon. Edith Sampson became the first black woman to be elected as a judge in the state of Illinois.   

Congresswoman  Corinne “Lindy” Boggs served 18 years in the House, becoming an advocate for women’s equality, economic opportunity for minorities, and the preservation of House heritage.

In 1973, when  Yvonne Brathwaite Burke became the first Congresswoman to give birth and be granted maternity leave while serving in Congress 

 Late Rep. Barbara Jordan was one of the first African Americans elected from the Deep South since 1898 and the first black Congresswoman ever from that region. 

 Late Rep. Julia Carson (D) was the first African American and woman to represent the Indiana state capital. 

 In 1970, Late St. Rep. Gwendolyn “Gwen” Sawyer Cherry became the first African-American woman to serve as a state legislator in Florida. 

The first African–American woman to represent North Carolina in Congress, Fmr. Rep. Eva Clayton became the state’s first black Representative since 1901.

A 30–year veteran of Michigan politics, Fmr. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick won election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1996.

In 2008, Fmr. Rep. Donna F. Edwards won a special election to become the first African-American woman elected to Congress from Maryland.

 Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D) held a recent press conference calling for Congress to repeal the 2001  Authorization for Use of Military Force 

 Congresswoman Alma Adams (NC-12), and Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (IL-14), founders and co-chairs of the Black Maternal Health Caucus, introduced the Community Access to Resources and Education (CARE) for Families Act

 June is #Alzheimers Brain Awareness Month and in 2018, Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) co-sponsored BOLD Infrastructure for Alzheimer's Act, legislation to create national public health infrastructure to promote early detection, increase intervention, and prevent avoidable hospitalizations 

Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-IL) illuminated how Trump's inhumane immigration policies have led to "separation of families and deaths". 

Fmr. Rep.  Barbara–Rose Collins was elected to Congress in 1990 from Michigan's 15th District.

In announcing her run for President of the United States in January, 2019, Sen. Kamala Harris became the first woman of Caribbean and South Asian descent to run for #POTUS

The first African–American woman Senator, Carol Moseley–Braun was also only the second black Senator since the Reconstruction Era.

When Fmr. Rep. Diane Watson entered the U.S. House of Representatives she was a former educator, state legislator, and U.S ambassador.

Fmr. Rep. Carrie P. Meek won election to the House in 1992 as one of the first African–American lawmakers to represent Florida in Congress since Reconstruction

In 2007, Juanita Millender–McDonald made history by becoming the first African–American woman to chair a standing congressional panel, the House Administration Committee.

Congresswoman Robin Kelly was elected to serve the 2nd Congressional District of Illinois in 2013 

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