Public Officials

A book review of Mart Martin's book on women and minorities in American politics.

One feminist goal during the 1960s was to get women to run for office. Read about the NOW task force that called for a campaign to get women to run for office and claim their political rights.

Who was the first woman Supreme Court justice in the United States? She was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981.

While Hillary Clinton's 2008 run for the Democratic nomination came closest any woman has come to winning the nomination of a major political party in the United States, Clinton is not the first woman to run for president, and not even the first to run from a major party. Here's a list of the female presidential candidates I've been able to...

Who was the first woman nominated as a vice presidential candidate by a major American political party? She was nominated in 1984.

Florence Ellinwood Allen was a pioneer woman judge, even being considered for the US Supreme Court in the 1930s.

Katherine Edson biography: California and federal public official, women's rights activist, and social reformer.

Read about Sonia Sotomayor, first Hispanic justice to serve on the United States Supreme Court.

Information from a Special Collection housed at Penn State, this website includes biographies, a timeline, and a Grade 6-12 curriculum on women in government.