Sentences with phrase «first woman elected»

In 1972, she became the first woman elected from Austin to the Texas House of Representatives.

In 2000, Hillary Clinton made history as the first first lady elected to the U.S. Senate, and the first woman elected statewide in New York.

Agnes Macphail was the first woman elected to the House of Commons (1921 — 40) and was one of the first two women elected to the Ontario legislature (1943 — 45, 1948 — 51).

She is the first First Nations woman to earn a law degree in Canada, the first non-Parliamentarian to be appointed an ex-officio member of a special House of Commons committee, the first Indigenous Commissioner of the Indian Commission of Ontario, the first woman appointed Ontario's Ombudsman and the first woman elected Chief of the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory.

In 1985, she became the first woman elected president by the New Jersey Society of Architects.

[3] Kollwitz was the first woman elected to the Prussian Academy of Arts.

She and her husband formerly owned a small animal practice in Michigan and she was the first woman elected President of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA).

She has earned every inch of both her official and her off - the - record titles, and recently she's decided to go after another: to become the first woman elected Prosecutor of Erie County.

Along with profiles of female trailblazers from Jeannette Rankin of Montana, who became the first woman elected to Congress, to Hilary Clinton, Cooper folds in essential historical context for her subjects, as well as explanations of basic civics concepts.

The first woman elected to serve as Attorney General of Illinois, Madigan is now the senior most female Attorney General in the country.

She was the first woman elected to chair the American Association of Port Authorities, and, as Executive Director of the National Commission on Intermodal Transportation, was the primary author of the Commission's 1994 Report to Congress.

In 1916, Jeannette Rankin became the first woman elected to Congress (the US.

Dr. Jane A. Russell was the first woman elected to office in the society.

WHEREAS, Santa Clara County was at one point known as the Feminist Capital of the World, with Janet Gray Hayes serving as the first woman elected Mayor of a major US city as part of a San Jose City Council with seven women, (including a female vice-mayor) at the same time as the San Jose Chamber of Commerce was led by a woman; as of August, only two women serve on the eleven member San Jose City Council and only one woman serves on the five member County Board of Supervisors; and

If Crowley — the first Democrat and first woman elected to represented her district — had won reelection, there would have been 12 Council members but with Holden's victory, it is down to 11.

Clinton could help Braley with female voters as he faces state Sen. Joni Ernst — the Republican nominee looking to become the first woman elected to Congress from the Hawkeye State.

The 10 officials hail from every corner of the five boroughs, and include trailblazers who were the first woman elected to represent their respective districts.

Peters, who now sits alongside Judge Leslie Stein on the Appellate Division, became the first woman elected to the Supreme Court in the district in 1992.

NEW YORK CITY — Slow - moving lines continued to cause extensive delays hours after polls opened to voters Tuesday morning in a historic election that could see the first woman elected president.

Earlier this month, when I became the first woman elected president of New York State United Teachers, I knew that she would be proud.

It was a historical win for Democrats, he said, not just because of the town board election, but also because Ann E. Welker became the first woman elected to the Southampton Town Trustees in the group's 331 - year history.

Instead, Democratic operatives say the field of Senate candidates could include Attorney General Kathleen Kane, the first woman elected to the role in the state's history.

In 2002, Michelle was the youngest person ever elected to Nelson city council, and seven years later, at age 31, Michelle became the first woman elected as MLA in Nelson - Creston.

Leroux's list of accomplishments is impressive — she's the first woman elected chair and the first one to hold the title of president and CEO at her company.

Sewell and Republican Martha Roby, also elected in 2010, are the first women elected to Congress from Alabama in regular elections.

Not exact matches

Maybe that's exactly what's needed for America to finally elect its first woman president.

Known as the first openly transgender black woman to be elected to political office in the United States, Jenkins made history this year when she was elected to the Minneapolis City Council.

In 1997, she became mayor of Maribyrnong, a suburb of Melbourne, becoming the first Vietnamese woman to be elected mayor anywhere outside of Vietnam.

For the first time since 1926, Seattleites have elected a woman to lead the @CityofSeattle.

Emanuel, 51, the former chief of staff to President Barack Obama, is competing against rivals who include two Hispanics — Gery Chico, a former Daley chief of staff, and City Clerk Miguel del Valle — and Carol Moseley Braun, who was the first black woman elected to the Senate.

But, as Ms. Clark points out, she was the first woman to be elected premier in British Columbia and the longest serving female premier the country has seen.

Velázquez, a Democrat from New York, is the first Puerto Rican woman to be elected to Congress, and she was the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus until January 3, 2011.

The longest serving woman in the Assembly is Lesser Slave Lake PC MLA Pearl Calahasen, who was first elected in 1989 and has been acclaimed as her party's candidate in the next election.

The mode of election whereby God appoints individuals to their lifework is seen as not different in character from the mode whereby he elects them to serve him as men or women, as American or Asian, as first - or twentieth - century men.

So, what do you think will happen first — the U.S. elects a woman for president, or the U.S. elects an atheist for president?

A Charleston caterer this month became the first African - American woman elected to the board of the American Culinary Federation (ACF), an 88 - year - old professional organization that counts more than 17,000 chefs among its members.

Reduced Baby Risk from Another Cesarean A major study, the first of its kind in the world, has found that women who have had one prior cesarean can lower the risk of death and serious complications for their next baby - and themselves - by electing to have another cesarean.

A major study, the first of its kind in the world, has found that women who have had one prior cesarean can lower the risk of death and serious complications for their next baby - and themselves - by electing to have another cesarean.

Venneman and colleagues5 recently demonstrated that infants who are formula fed are twice as likely to die of SIDS than breastfed infants based on a case control study of 333 SIDS cases compared to 998 aged matched controls in Germany, from 1998 - 2001, consistent with previously published reports.35 While no studies show that co-sleeping in the form of bedsharing, specifically, is imperative for breastfeeding enhancement, many studies have shown that in order to get more sleep and to ease caring for their infants the decision to breastfeed often leads mothers to adopt routine bedsharing for at least part of the night36 - 40 even where they never intended to do so.41, 42 Indeed, nearly 50 % of breastfeeding mothers in the United States and Great Britain adopt bedsharing for some part of the night,38,43 - 45 and breastfeeding women are twice as likely to sleep with their babies in the first month relative to mothers electing to bottle - feed.39

Mendez, the first Puerto Rican woman elected to the state Legislature in New York history, was defeated that year by Sen. Jose Serrano.

Levi, Sen. Tom Duane, (the chamber's first openly gay and HIV - positive member); NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn, (the first lesbian and woman to hold her leadership post); Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, (one of the first gay elected officials to represent Queens) and Marty Rouse of the Human Rights Campaign Fund will hold a pre-Columbus Day press conference to denounce Paladino's «homophobic comments» at 11 a.m. in Manhattan.

A little march to and rally outside where he was staying, in support of the action being taken to preserve the eight indigenous ethnic groups, the small but very ancient and entrenched Jewish community, the Gulf's only synagogue and Jewish cemetery, the black community that is part of the East African diaspora, the fifth of the population that is non-Muslim, the half of that fifth which is Christian, the strictly optional status of the women's headscarf, the Sunni third of Bahraini Muslims, the requirement that all legislation be approved by both Houses of Parliament, the election of the Lower House by universal suffrage, the regular appointment of women to the Upper House to make up for their dearth in the elected Lower House, the presence in the Upper House of a Jewish man and a Christian woman (the latter the first woman ever to chair a Parliament in the Arab world), the present position of a Jewish woman as Ambassador to the United States, the very close ties to Britain, and the fact that all of this is perfectly acceptable even to Salafi Members of Parliament.

Stewart - Cousins, a Yonkers Democrat, was first elected leader of the conference in 2012 and is the first woman to lead a legislative conference in state government history.

Rep. Kathleen Rice, the first woman to be elected Nassau district attorney, is backing Legislator Laura Curran, who will look to break the glass ceiling as Nassau's first female county executive.

If elected, Nixon would be the state's first woman governor, and its first openly gay statewide elected official.

Weinstein, who was first elected to the Assembly in 1980, was also the first woman to chair the chamber's Judiciary Committee, a position she has held since 1994.

First elected in 1982, when only three percent of MPs were women, Harman entertains in reminiscence of Labour leader Michael Foot.

For women candidates, many of them seeking elected office for the first time, the success of women in early primary states has provided them with confidence that their sometimes - unexpected runs aren't so far - fetched.

If elected, James would be the first black woman mayor of New York City.

The Baker Project is dedicated to Martha Baker, a lifelong advocate for women's rights and a founding director of Eleanor's Legacy, and to Constance Baker Motley, the first African - American woman elected to the New York State Senate.