Posts Tagged ‘first woman’
A True Kentucky Pioneer: The Story of Kentucky’s First Female and African-American Senator
By Brandy Bailey, ElectWomen Magazine Contributor At the time, Georgia Davis Powers had no idea she had made history in 1968 by becoming the first woman AND the first African-American elected to Kentucky’s State Senate. All she knew was that she wanted to make a difference in her community. It was never her intention to…
Read MoreObama’s Solicitor General Confirmed, Becomes First Woman To Hold Post
by Chris Brown, www.politicalbase.com With March serving as National Women’s History Month, it’s quite befitting to acknowledge the recent success for President Obama and Elena Kagan, the next U.S. Solicitor General: Elena Kagan, dean of Harvard Law School, was confirmed Thursday by the Senate as the nation’s first female solicitor general, to represent the Obama administration before…
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