Judith Ellen Foster
Suffragist, temperance activist and lawyer who founded the Woman’s National Republican Association in 1888, declaring that “woman is politics.”
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Xochitl Torres Small
U.S. Representative from New Mexico
Catherine Marie Cortez Masto
U.S. Senator from Nevada
Lois Jenson
Plaintiff in the U.S.’s first class-action sexual harassment lawsuit
Florence Stoker
Literary executor and wife of Bram Stoker
Lynn Schenk
The daughter of working–class immigrants, Democrat Lynn Schenk won a hotly contested election in a majority Republican district to become the first woman to represent San Diego, California, in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Louise Dewald
Dewald was, for many years, the highest-ranking woman in Cleveland, Ohio’s city government.
Penny Wright
Australian environmentalist and politician
Millicent Anne Chalmers
Australian environmentalist
Rachel Siewert
Australian environmentalist and parliamentarian