Ina Higgins
Ina Higgins was one of the first women to enrol at the Burnley Horticultural College in Melbourne in 1899, receiving her Certificate of Competency in 1900. She subsequently had a lengthy career as a distinguished landscape gardener.
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Dr Esther Clayson Pohl Lovejoy
Dr. Lovejoy was the first woman to direct a city department of health, the Portland Board of Health, in Oregon and was co-founder and first director of the Medical Women’s International Association.
Frances Willis
First female career Foreign Service Officer to serve as a US Ambassador
Helen E McMillan
As a legislator, Helen E. McMillan served Mower County for twelve years. She was also involved in the Red Cross, the Women’s League of Voters, the Human Rights Commission, and the United Council for Church Women.
Mazie Hirono
The first Asian American woman to be elected to the United States Senate.
Patricia Saiki
Pioneering two-term Republican Congresswoman from Hawai’i, 1987–91.
Doris Matsui
Member of U.S. House of Representatives representing the Sacramento, California, area since 2005.
Jean Sadako King
Lieutenant governor of Hawai’i, 1979–83.
Susie Williamson Stageberg
Susie Williamson Stageberg is known as the “Mother of the Farmer-Labor Party.” The Red Wing activist spent a lifetime fighting for unpopular political and social causes. She strongly opposed the merger of the Democratic and Farmer-Labor Parties in the 1940s.
Sue Metzger Dickey Hough
One of the first four women elected to the Minnesota legislature in 1922, Sue Metzger Dickey Hough campaigned for gun control, strict capital punishment, and mandatory automobile insurance, among other issues.