Sentences with phrase «first female senator»

A retired public school teacher, Stavisky is the chairwoman of the Senate Higher Education Committee and the first female senator elected from Queens.

Unarguably, the first Igbo woman to be elected as Senator in 2003, and the first female senator to be re-elected, Emodi did not assume her mandate in the Senate until after a long legal tussle that lasted for over 20 months.

She is the only first lady to have ever run successfully for political office, becoming the first female senator from New York in 2001.

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«This is a state that largely white people elected a female governor of Indian descent and the first - ever African - American United States senator from the South,» he said.

Elizabeth Warren will be the first woman senator to represent Massachusetts, and Mazie Hirono will be the first female U.S. senator from Hawaii and the first Asian - American woman in the Senate.

As part of the reunification deal, Mr. Klein will become the deputy to Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins, the Democratic minority leader — creating the odd couple of New York's first female legislative leader, who in recent months has championed an aggressive crackdown on sexual harassment, and a man accused of committing it.

In January 2013, just a month into Westchester State Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins» tenure as the first female legislative leader in New York State history, the Senate Democratic conference was in crisis.

Her warm - up act included several female firsts: State Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins, the first female legislative conference leader in the New York State, Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, the legislature's first openly lesbian member, and Public Advocate Letitia James, the first woman of color to hold citywide office in New York City, as well as city first lady Chirlane McCray and former congresswoman Gabby Giffords, who is now one of the country's best - known advocates for gun control.

From left to right, Tiana Von Johnson, President / CEO Gold Star Properties, Inc., Barbara Moye, President Harbour Pointe at Shorehaven Condos III, Senator Klein and Cheray E. Diggs, granddaughter of Estella Diggs, the first female African American NYS Assembly Member from the Bronx, who received her award posthumously.

The state also has the first and only all - female Congressional delegation, as well as two female senators and a female governor.

The first Queens woman to become a state senator and the first female head of the Senate Higher Education Committee, Stavisky has had a lock on the seat for a decade.

The first Queens woman to become a state senator and the first female head of the Higher Education Committee, Stavisky has had a lock on the seat for a decade.

Other potential candidates include Senator Catharine Young, from Western New York, who would be the chamber's first female majority leader; Senator John A. DeFrancisco, a veteran legislator from the Syracuse area and chairman of the finance committee; and Senator John J. Flanagan, from Suffolk County, who served 16 years in the Assembly.

Senator Stewart Cousins, who would become the state's first female African - American legislative leader, says it's «mind - boggling» that there would even be a question of whether Democrats should be in charge.

If this book is set far enough in the future that the US has a female President — and this installment does not indicate that she is the first female to hold that office — why are we still battling with ugly conservative Senators over important immigration reform?