Veronica Escobar
US Representative from Texas
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Winifred Stanley
During her one term as a New York Congresswoman, Winifred Stanley tirelessly championed women’s rights. The former prosecutor and the first female assistant district attorney in Erie County, New York, urged Americans to contemplate and begin planning for the imperatives of peacetime demobilization and new international responsibilities after World War II.
Dr Yadira Caraveo
US Representative from Colorado
Colleen Hanabusa
A prominent labor lawyer, Colleen Hanabusa served in the Hawaii state senate for a dozen years before winning election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010.
Brenda Jones
US Representative from Michigan
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick
A 30-year veteran of state politics, Carolyn C. Kilpatrick became the second Black woman to serve in the US House of Representatives from Michigan following her election in 1996.
Juanita Millender-McDonald
In 1996, Juanita Millender-McDonald of California won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives just six years after capturing her first elected office at the local level.
Julia Carson
Julia May Carson overcame poverty and racism to serve nearly two decades in state and local government—including 17 years in the Indiana state legislature—before winning election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1996, the first African American and first woman to represent Indianapolis in Congress.
Katherine Langley
Congresswoman Katherine Gudger Langley’s husband resigned his House seat after being convicted of violating Prohibition laws. Katherine Langley then defeated her husband’s successor and won election to the House in a “vindication campaign” designed to exonerate her disgraced spouse.
Katie Hall
Katie Hall was the first African-American Member of Congress from Indiana, and in a little more than two years on Capitol Hill she successfully led the House effort to create a federal holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.