Viola Ross Napier
Viola Ross Napier was elected to Georgia’s House of Representatives in 1922, only two years after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which grants women the right to vote.
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Enid Lyons
In 1943, the Honourable Dame Enid Lyons AD GBE was elected as the first female member of Australia’s House of Representatives.
Jennie Wyse Power
Irish nationalist and suffragist
Michelle Wu
The first woman and first person of color to be elected Mayor of Boston
Argentina Fernández
Argentina Fernández Rafaelli has devoted herself mainly to political journalism and has also worked in novels, poetry and the biographies of public officials
Stephanie Tubbs Jones
The first African American woman from Ohio elected to the United States House of Representatives, who served the state’s eleventh congressional district for nearly ten years. Prior to her election to Congress, Tubbs Jones was Chief Prosecutor of Cuyahoga County.
Jean Murrell Capers
In 1949, she became the first African-American woman elected to Cleveland City Council.
Lethia Cousins Fleming
Lethia Cousins Fleming directed national campaign efforts among African American women for three Republican presidential candidates, and led the National Association of Republican Colored Women (1920) and women’s activities in Cleveland’s 11th Ward for almost a decade (1920s).
Geraldine Williams
Ohio civic activist and political strategist
Lillian W Burke
The first African-American woman judge in Ohio and the first to sit on the Ohio Industrial Commission, the highest state position ever held by an African-American woman at that time.