Nikema Williams
US Representative from Georgia
US Representative from Georgia
US Representative from Illinois
Ruth Thompson, a longtime lawyer and judge, became the first woman to represent Michigan in Congress and the first to serve on the House Judiciary Committee.
A Polish émigré who fled the Nazis and settled in America, Sala Galante Burton succeeded her husband, the powerful California Representative Phillip Burton, after he died suddenly in 1983.
US Representative from Washington
US Representative from Virginia
US Representative from California
US Representative from California
In 2003 Madeleine Z. Bordallo became the first woman to serve as Guam’s Delegate in the U.S. Congress.
US Representative from Ohio