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2022: Ketanji Brown Jackson is appointed as an associate justice

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1985: Margaret Heckler became the first woman to have served as a member of Congress, a cabinet secretary, and ambassador.

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2001: Elaine Chao becomes the first Asian American woman

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2001: Christine Todd Whitman (R) of New Jersey becomes t

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2021: Rachel Levine became the first openly transgender person to be confirmed by Senate...

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2021: Deb Haaland was appointed by President Joe Biden to serve as secretary of the Interior, becoming the first Native American to serve in a presidential Cabinet.

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2020: Kamala Harris was elected Vice President of the United States...

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2015: Loretta Lynch became the first Black woman to serve as US Attorney General...

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In June 2016, Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first woman...

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1872: Victoria Woodhull, a stockbroker...

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