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2022: Ketanji Brown Jackson is appointed as an associate justice

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2011: Margarita Prentice (D) becomes Senate President Pro Tem of the Washington Senate

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2001: Elaine Chao becomes the first Asian American woman

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1985: Wilma Mankiller is sworn in as chief of the Cherok

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1973: Doris A. Davis was elected mayor of the City of Compton, California

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1969: Sophia Mitchell was appointed mayor of Rendville, Ohio...

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1973: Lelia Foley-Davis was elected mayor of Taft, Oklahoma.

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1971: Ellen Walker Craig-Jones became the first Black woman elected mayor...

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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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1990: Sandy Garrett was elected Oklahoma's Superintendent of Public Instruction...

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