Mary Therese Winifred Robinson is an Irish politician who served as the seventh president of Ireland,holding the office from December 1990 to September 1997. She was the country's first female president. Robinson had previously served as a senator in Seanad Éireann from 1969 to 1989,and as a councillor on Dublin Corporation from 1979 to 1983. Although she had been briefly affiliated with the Labour Party during her time as a senator,she became the first independent candidate to win the presidency and the first not to have had the support of Fianna Fáil. Following her time as president,Robinson became the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees,forcibly displaced communities,and stateless people,and to assist in their voluntary repatriation,local integration or resettlement to a third country. It is headquartered in Geneva,Switzerland,with over 18,879 staff working in 138 countries as of 2020.
Roberta Achtenberg is an American attorney and civil rights advocate who served as a commissioner on the United States Commission on Civil Rights. She was previously assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development,becoming the first openly lesbian or gay public official in the United States whose appointment to a federal position was confirmed by the United States Senate. This confirmation hearing garnered a lot of publicity,opposition,and support.
Sadako Ogata,néeNakamura,was a Japanese academic,diplomat,author,administrator,and professor emerita at the Roman Catholic Sophia University. She was widely known as the head of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) from 1991 to 2000,as well as in her capacities as Chair of the UNICEF Executive Board from 1978 to 1979 and as President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) from 2003 to 2012. She also served as Advisor of the Executive Committee of the Japan Model United Nations (JMUN).
Robert M. "Bob" Gordon is an American politician serving as a commissioner of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities. Prior to being commissioner,Gordon was a Democratic Party politician who served in the New Jersey Senate from January 8,2008 to April 4,2018 representing the 38th Legislative District. He also served in the General Assembly from 2004 to 2008.
John Raymond Garamendi is an American businessman,politician and member of the Democratic Party who has represented areas of Northern California between San Francisco and Sacramento,including the cities of Fairfield and Vacaville in the United States House of Representatives since 2009. Garamendi was the California insurance commissioner from 1991 to 1995 and 2003 to 2007,the U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Interior from 1995 to 1998,and the 46th lieutenant governor of California from 2007 until his election to Congress in late 2009.
Jenniffer Aydin González Colón is a Puerto Rican politician who serves as the 20th Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico. González has served in leadership positions in the New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico (PNP) and in the Republican Party of the United States. These positions included being the chairwoman of the Puerto Rico Republican Party,speaker and minority leader of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico,and vice-chair of the PNP. González is the youngest person to be Resident Commissioner and the first woman to hold the role.
Virginia Anne Phillips is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye is an American lawyer and jurist who was the 28th Chief Justice of California and is the president/CEO of the Public Policy Institute of California. She was nominated by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to serve as chief justice on July 22,2010,and retained in office by California voters on November 2,2010,she was sworn in on January 3,2011 as California's first Filipino and first woman of color to serve as California's Chief Justice. Prior to her appointment as chief justice,Cantil-Sakauye had served in judicial offices on California's appellate and trial courts. On July 27,2022,she announced she would retire and not run for another 12 year term on the court in November and stepped down on January 1,2023,leaving Governor Newsom to appoint her replacement. On September 28,2022,the Public Policy Institute of California announced that Cantil-Sakauye would become its president and chief executive officer,effective January 1,2023. On September 21,2023,the Judicial Council of California voted unanimously to name the new Sacramento County courthouse after former Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye.
Carolyn W. Colvin was the Acting Commissioner of Social Security Administration in the United States,appointed on February 14,2013,having succeeded Michael J. Astrue. On June 20,2014,President Barack Obama nominated her to serve as the commissioner. On September 18,2014,the United States Senate Committee on Finance approved her nomination by a 22–2 vote. However,her nomination was never brought up for a vote before the full Senate.
Stephanie M. Garcia Richard is an American politician and currently serves as the New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands. Garcia Richard previously served as a member of the New Mexico House of Representatives from January 2013 through December 2018,representing the 43rd district. She chaired the House Education Committee and served on the Appropriates and Finance Committee and Labor and Economic Development committees.
Yanghee Lee is a South Korean developmental psychologist and professor at Sungkyunkwan University. She is most noted for her work in international human rights organisations. Lee is highly recognized nationally,regionally,and internationally for her expertise in human rights. She has published numerous articles and books on human rights and children’s rights.
Anna Kaplan is an Iranian-American politician from Great Neck,New York. A Democrat,she was a member of the New York State Senate,representing New York's 7th State Senate district,which runs from the North Shore to roughly the central part of Western Nassau County on Long Island. She was a member of the so-called "Long Island Six," a group of six Democrats who represent Long Island in the New York State Senate and often vote as a block. She was elected in 2018 as part of a wave of Democrats who defeated Republican incumbents and brought control of the New York Senate to the Democrats for only the third time since World War II. She lost re-election in 2022 to Jack Martins.
Mary Travis Bassett is an American physician and public health researcher who was the 17th Health Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health,being appointed to the position by Governor Kathy Hochul on September 29,2021,until December 31,2022. From 2014 to 2018,she was the commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Bassett is the Director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and the FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is also an associate professor of clinical epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
Luise Amtsberg is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been a member of the German Bundestag since the federal election in 2013. She contested the constituency of Kiel in 2013 and 2017.
MaryLouise Isaacson is an American politician serving as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from the 175th district since 2019.
Alicia Dawn Straub is an American politician who is a member of the Kansas Senate from the 33rd District since January 11,2021. She is a former member of the Kansas House of Representatives representing the 113th district from March 19,2019,to January 11,2021. A resident of Ellinwood,Kansas,she was selected by Republican precinct committee members on March 12,2019,to succeed former Rep. Greg Lewis (R),who resigned due to health issues. Senator Straub was formally appointed by Governor Laura Kelly to the seat on March 14 and was sworn in by Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab on March 19. Prior to her election to the House of Representatives,she served as a county commissioner in Barton County,Kansas and was the commission chairman from January to March 2019. She resigned from the county commission from a meeting on March 18,2019,in order to take her seat in the Kansas Legislature.
Trina Lynn Thompson is American judge who serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. She previously served as a state court judge of the Alameda County Superior Court.
Marianne Pennekamp was a Jewish social worker with a focus on families,children and school social work. As a child she survived the Holocaust,when her family fled from Karlsruhe to Marseille Vichy France in 1935,before immigrating to New York,after her father was released from internment camp.
Lilian Jiménez is an American attorney and politician serving as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives for the 4th district. Elected in November 2022,she assumed office on December 15,2022.
