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Legislature: Democratic: March 7, 2008: January 2, 2017: 8 years, 301 days Jenniffer González Puerto Rico: House of Representatives New Progressive: January 12, 2009: January 1, 2013: 3 years, 355 days Tina Rose Muña Barnes Guam: Legislature Democratic: January 7, 2019: January 4, 2021: 1 year, 363 days Therese M. Terlaje Guam: Legislature ...
Leadership positions at the state legislatures include senate presidents, presidents pro tempore, house speakers, majority and minority leaders of the senate and house. In 2023, women held leadership positions in 35 state senates and in 32 state houses, which corresponds to 26% of 350 positions.
Mike Madigan is cumulatively the longest-serving state legislative speaker in U.S. history (serving from 1983-1995 and again from 1997 to 2021). Tom Murphy served the longest consecutive tenure as state legislative speaker from 1973 to 2002. Tina Kotek is the longest-serving female state legislative speaker in U.S history (serving from 2013-2022).
Some 2,432 of the 7,386 state legislature seats in America are held by women. And at the city and town level, women—especially women of color—are making huge gains. Have we reached a true ...
List of female speakers of legislatures in the United States; List of female state attorneys general in the United States; List of female state secretaries of state in the United States; List of female state supreme court justices
Before 2018, New Hampshire was the first state to have a female majority in any legislative chamber, when women held a majority in the New Hampshire state Senate in 2009 and 2010.
List of female speakers of legislatures in the United States * List of female speakers of national and territorial lower houses;
For the first time ever, women held nearly half the seats in the 120-member Legislature. But overall, the political picture is less bright — at least for those believing our elected ...