Lilian Fowler
In 1938, Councillor Lilian Fowler became Australia’s first female mayor.
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Elaine Brown
African-American political activist
Neera Tanden
Domestic Policy Advisor to US President Biden and Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council
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.
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.