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In January 2025, women were serving as governor in 13 U.S. states (14 between January 9 and January 21), as mayor of the District of Columbia, and as territorial governors of Guam and Puerto Rico. Of the current female state governors, 8 are Democrats and 5 are Republicans. Madeleine Kunin is the oldest living former female governor at 91.
Earl Warren, later chief justice of the United States, won an election with the nominations of the three major parties – the only person to run essentially unopposed for governor of California. Ronald Reagan , who was president of the Screen Actors Guild and later president of the United States , and Arnold Schwarzenegger both came to ...
During a visit to Sacramento this week, Vice President Kamala Harris spent time with two women aiming to become California's first female governor.
Please observe that this list is meant to contain only the first woman to hold of a political office, and not all the female holders of that office. The first female governor in North America and the Americas overall was Beatriz de la Cueva —appointed in 1541, when Central America was part of Spain.
A state that fancies itself a progressive path-breaker and bastion of open-minded opportunity has never elected a woman to Sacramento's top job. That male hegemony could finally end in 2026.
In 2008, Whitman was cited by The New York Times as among the women most likely to become the first female president of the United States. [5] She ran for governor of California in 2010, winning the Republican primary. The fifth-wealthiest woman in California with a net worth of $1.3 billion in 2010, [6] she spent, at the time, more of her own ...
Even as women have reached near-parity in Sacramento, the ranks of female House members from California are shrinking. For the first time in decades, men also hold both U.S. Senate seats.
They were the first women voted for as candidates for president at the national convention of a major American political party. [ 9 ] Former Wyoming Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross was a candidate for vice president at the 1928 Democratic National Convention .