Laura Lane Bush is an American teacher and librarian who was the first lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009 as the wife of President George W. Bush. Bush previously served as the first lady of Texas from 1995 to 2000. She is also the daughter-in-law of former president George H. W. Bush.
Elaine Lan Chao is an American businesswoman and former government official. A member of the Republican Party,she served as the 18th United States secretary of transportation in the Trump administration from 2017 to 2021,and as the 24th United States secretary of labor in the George W. Bush administration from 2001 to 2009. Chao was the first Asian-Pacific American woman ever to serve in a presidential cabinet.
Barbara Sue Boxer is an American politician and lobbyist who served in the United States Senate,representing California from 1993 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party,she previously served as the U.S. representative for California's 6th congressional district from 1983 until 1993.
Addison Mitchell McConnell III is an American politician and retired attorney serving as the senior United States senator from Kentucky,a seat he has held since 1985. McConnell has been the Senate leader of the Republican Party since 2007 and has served as minority leader since 2021,having previously held that post from 2007 to 2015 and was majority leader from 2015 to 2021.
The United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary,informally known as the Senate Judiciary Committee,is a standing committee of 22 U.S. senators whose role is to oversee the Department of Justice (DOJ),consider executive and judicial nominations,and review pending legislation.
This article covers the history of women in the United States Senate and various milestones achieved by female senators. It includes a list of all women who have served in the Senate,a list of current female senators,and a list of states represented by women in the Senate. The first female U.S. senator,Rebecca Latimer Felton,represented Georgia for a single day in 1922,and the first woman elected to the Senate,Hattie Caraway,was elected from Arkansas in 1932. Fifty-nine women have served in the upper house of the United States Congress since its establishment in 1789. As of January 3,2023,there are 25 women serving as U.S. senators.
Edward Maurice Mezvinsky is an American politician and lawyer from Iowa. He is a former U.S. Representative and felon. A Democrat,he represented Iowa's 1st congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives for two terms (1973–77).
A United States Senate page is a high-school age teen serving the United States Senate in Washington,D.C. Pages are nominated by senators,usually from their home state,and perform a variety of tasks,such as delivering messages and legislative documents on the Senate floor and the various Capitol Hill offices. Pages are provided housing and attend a special page school at the Daniel Webster Senate Page Residence. Senate pages were first appointed in 1829. Originally limited to boys only,the Senate page program was expanded in 1971 to include girls. There are 30 pages at each Senate session,with 16 appointed by the majority party and 14 by the minority. Pages are assigned to serve senators of the sponsoring senator's party.
James Albert Smith Leach is an American academic and former politician. He served as ninth Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 2009 to 2013 and was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa (1977–2007).
The 115th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States of America federal government,composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives. It met in Washington,D.C.,from January 3,2017,to January 3,2019,during the final weeks of Barack Obama's presidency and the first two years of Donald Trump's presidency. The seats in the House were apportioned based on the 2010 United States census.
Ann Christine Bell Vilsack is an American literacy advocate and politician. Vilsack is married to former Iowa Governor and United States Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. She served as the First Lady of Iowa from 1999 until 2007. She was an unsuccessful 2012 Democratic nominee for U.S. Representative for Iowa's 4th congressional district.
Alison Case Lundergan Grimes is an American lawyer and Democratic politician who was the secretary of state of Kentucky from 2012 until 2020. Grimes was elected in 2011 after defeating incumbent Elaine Walker in the Democratic primary and Republican candidate Bill Johnson in the general election. She was the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate in 2014,unsuccessfully challenging Republican incumbent and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. She was re-elected for a second term as Secretary of State of Kentucky on November 3,2015,defeating Republican Stephen Knipper. Term limited in 2019,she was succeeded by Republican Michael Adams.
Diane E. Mitsch Bush is an American politician and retired sociology professor who served as a member of the Colorado House of Representatives. She was the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2018 and 2020 elections in Colorado's 3rd congressional district,both of which she was defeated in.
Nathaniel Ryan Morris is an American entrepreneur. He is the Chairman and CEO of Lexington,Kentucky-based company Morris Industries. He also founded the company Rubicon Technologies,where he formerly served as CEO.
Adam Gregg is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 47th lieutenant governor of Iowa. He has held this position since 2019. Gregg previously served as Acting Lieutenant Governor from 2017 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party,Gregg served as Public Defender of Iowa from 2014 to 2017. He was the Republican candidate for Attorney General of Iowa in the November 2014 elections.
Elizabeth "Britt" Cagle Grant is an American attorney and judge who is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She is a former Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.
The 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa were held on November 8,2022,to elect the four U.S. representatives from the State of Iowa,one from each of the state's four congressional districts. The elections coincided with the other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. These was the first congressional elections held in Iowa after the 2020 redistricting cycle.
