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The National Honor Roll of State Legislators is comprised of all state legislators who have signed onto the Contract with Women of the USA® since 1996. In this era of devolution of many federal responsibilities to the state, the leadership of women state legislators is especially crucial to protect and expand women’s rights. Some Honor Roll Members are no longer serving in their state legislatures but we continue to work with these powerful leaders as they seek to promote women’s equality, empowerment and justice in their new roles.

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* Now serving in the United States Congress
** No longer serving in the state legislature
*** In Memoriam

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Alabama

Representative Barbara Bigsby Boyd
Representative Merika Coleman
Representative Laura Hall
Representative Yvonne Kennedy
Representative Patricia Todd

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Alaska

** Kay Brown
Representative Andrea Doll
Representative Berta Gardner
** Gretchen Guess
Representative Mary Kapsner
Representative Beth Kerttula
** Georgianna Lincoln
** Irene Nicholia
** Cynthia Toohey

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Arizona

Senator Paula A. Aboud
**Linda Aguirre
**Meg Burton-Cahill
Representative Olivia Cajero Bedford
** Carmen Cajero
** Kathi Foster
**Martha Garcia
** Susan Gerard
** Sally Ann Gonzales
** Sue Grace
** Mary Hartley
** Winifred Hershberger
Representative Katie Hobbs
** Herschella Horton
Senator Karen S. Johnson
** Becky Jordon
Representative Linda J. Lopez
** Sue Lynch
** Patti Noland
** Marion Lee Pickens
** Elaine Richardson
** Rebecca Rios
Representative Lena S. Saradnik
Representative Kyrsten Sinema
** Ruth Solomon
Representative Jackie Thrasher
** Christine Weason

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Arkansas

** Dee Bennett
Senator Irma Hunter Brown
Senator Joyce Elliott
Representative Janet Johnson
** Janice A. Judy
** Wilhelmina Lewellen
** Becky Lynn
Senator Sue Wood Madison
** Judy S. Smith
Representative Kathy Webb
** Josetta Wilkins

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California

** Marguerite Archie-Hudson
** Tom Bates
** Valerie K. Brown
** Louis Caldera
** Wilma Chan
** Ed Chavez
** Rebecca Cohn
* U.S. Representative Susan Davis
Assemblymember Denise M. Ducheny
** Liz Figueroa
** Martin Gallegos
** Jackie Goldberg
** Dan Hauser
** Teresa P. Hughes
** Richard Katz
** Wally Knox
** Paul Koretz
Senator Sheila James Kuehl
* U.S. Representative Barbara Lee
Assemblymember Mark Leno
Assemblymember Sally J. Lieber
** Carol Liu
** Milton Marks
** Diane Martinez
** Kerry Mazzoni
** Tara Mesick
Senator Carole Migden
** Cindy Montánez
** Kevin Murray
* U.S. Representative Grace Flores Napolitano
Senator Gloria Romero
* U.S. Representative Hilda Solis
** Jackie Speier
** Virginia Strom-Martin
** Michael P. Sweeney
** Antonio Villaraigosa
* U.S. Representative Diane Watson

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Colorado

** Alice Borodkin
** Betty Boyd
** Fran Natividad Coleman
* U.S. Representative Diana L. Degette
Senator Joan Fitz-Gerald
Representative Jeanne Labuda
Representative Rosemary Marshall
Representative Elizabeth H. McCann
** Pat Pascoe
** Dianne Primavera
** Jeannie Reeser
** Dorothy Rupert
Senator Sue Windels

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Connecticut

** Nancy Beals
** Annette W. Carter
** Melody A. Currey
Senator Eileen M. Daily
Representative Patricia Dillon
** Theresa B. Gerratana
** Sonya Googins
Senator Toni Nathaniel Harp
** Betty Ruth Hollander
** Lydia N. Martinez
Representative Denise W. Merrill
Senator Edith G. Prague
Senator Andrea L. Stillman
Representative Patricia M. Widlitz
** Lenny T. Winkler

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Delaware

Senator Patricia M. Blevins
Representative Bethany Hall-Long
Senator Karen E. Peterson
Senator Liane M. Sorenson

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Florida

Representative Lori Berman
** Elaine Bloom
** Mary Brennen
** Shirley Brown
Senator Larcenia J. Bullard
Senator Muriel Dawson
** Willye F.Dennis
** Nancy Detert
** Margo Fischer
** Mayor Lois J. Frankel
** Anne M. Gannon
** Suzanne Jacobs
Representative Arthenia L. Joyner
** Cindy Lerner
Senator Evelyn J. Lynn
Senator Gwen Margolis
** Stacy J. Ritter
** Beryl D. Roberts
** Eleanor Sobel
Representative Shelley Vana
* U.S. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz

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Georgia

Representative Stacy Abrams
Representative Sharon Beasley-Teague
Representative Karla Lea Drenner
** June Hegstrom
** Donzella J. James
** Steen Miles
** Barbara J. Mobley
Senator Nan Grogan Orrock
Representative Nikki T. Randall
** Connie Stokes
** Nadine Thomas
Representative Mable Thomas
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Guam
- ** Carmen Fernandez
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Hawaii
** Lei Ahu-Isa
** Annelle Amaral
Senator Rosalyn H. Baker
Representative Cindy Evans
Senator Carol Fukunaga
Representative Faye Hanohano
** Lorraine R. Inouye
** Jon Riki Karamatsu
Representative Marilyn B. Lee
** Bertha F.K. Leong
Representative Barbara Marumoto
** Hermina M. Morita
Senator Suzanne Chun Oakland
Senator Maile S. L. Shimabukuro
Representative Cynthia H. Thielen
** Jill N Tokuda

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Idaho

** Donna H. Boe
Representative Sue Chew
** Liz Chavez
** Betsy D. Dunklin
Representative Margaret Henbest
Representative Wendy Jaquet
Senator Nicole LeFavour
** Anne Pasley-Stuart
Representative Donna L. Pence
** Mary Lou Reed

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Illinois

Representative Maria "Toni" Berrios

** Evelyn M. Bowles
Representative Barbara Flynn Currie
** Julie A. Curry
Representative Monique D. Davis
** Suzanne Deuchler
** Judy Erwin
** Arline M. Fantin
Representative Sara Feigenholtz
Representative Mary E. Flowers
Senator Susan Garrett
** Lauren Beth Gash
** Deborah L. Graham
** Debbie Defrancesco Halvorson
Representative Constance A. Howard
** Shirley M. Jones
*** Lovana S. Jones
** Nancy Kaszak
** Carolyn H. Krause
** Patricia Reid Lindner
** Andrea S. Moore
Representative Rosemary Mulligan
Representative Elaine Nekritz
** Alice Palmer
** Carol Ronen
* U.S. Representative Janice D. Schakowsky
** Penny Severns
** Sonia Silva
Wyvetter H. Younge

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Indiana

Representative Terri Jo Austin
*** Anita Bowser
** Billie J. Breaux
Senator Jean D. Breaux
Representative Cleo Duncan
Representative Sheila J. Klinker
Senator Vi Simpson

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Iowa

** Cecilia Burnett
** Kay Chapman
** Minette Doderer
** Johnie Hammond
** Patricia M. Harper
Representative Mary Mascher
** Janet Metcalf
Representative Helen Miller
** Beverly J. Nelson
** Maggie Tinsman
** Philip Wise

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Kansas

Representative Marti Crow
Senator Oletha Faust-Goudeau
** Ruby Gilbert
** Nancy A. Kirk
Representative Annie Kuether
Representative Judith Loganbill
Representative Valdenia C. Winn

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Kentucky

Representative Joni L. Jenkins
Representative Mary Lou Marzian
Representative Kathy W. Stein
Representative Susan Westrom

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Louisiana

Senator Diana E. Bajoie
Representative Patricia Haynes Smith
Representative Dorothy Hill
** Paulette Riley Irons
Representative Karen Carter Peterson
** Renee Gill Pratt

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Maine

Representative Marilyn E. Canavan
Representative Patsy Crockett
** Beverly C. Daggett
Senator Beth Edmonds
** Rosita Gagne-Friel
** Bonnie Green
Representative Carol A. Grose
** Marjorie L. Kilkelly
** Carol A. Kontos
** Patricia Lemaire
** Susan Walsh Longley
** Lisa Tessier Marraché
** Janet L. McLaughlin
Representative Mary Pennell. Nelson
** Mary C. Neuhauser
** Peggy A. Pendleton
** Chellie Pingree
Senator Margaret R. Rotundo
** Sonya G. Sampson
** Jane W. Saxl
** Deborah L. Simpson
** Elizabeth Townsend
** Sharon Anglin Treat
Representative Pamela Jabar Trinward
** Julie Winn

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Maryland

Delegate Joanne C. Benson
Delegate Elizabeth Bobo
** Rose Mary H. Bonsack
*** Gwendolyn Britt
** Joan Cadden
*** Jean B. Cryor
Senator Jennie M. Forehand
Delegate Barbara A. Frush
Delegate Tawanna Gaines
** Marilyn R. Goldwater
** Sharon M. Grosfeld
Delegate Ana Sol Gutierrez
** C. Sue Hecht
Delegate Sheila Ellis Hixson
** Barbara A. Hoffman
** Paula C. Hollinger
Delegate Carolyn J.B. Howard
Senator Verna L. Jones
** Cheryl C. Kagan
Senator Delores G. Kelley
** Ruth M. Kirk
** Nancy K. Kopp
** Gloria B. Lawlah
Delegate Mary Ann E. Love
** Adrienne A. Mandel
** Salima Siler Marriott
*** Pauline H. Menes
Delegate Shirley Nathan-Pulliam
** Joan Parker
** Obie Patterson
Delegate Shane E. Pendergrass
** Carol Stoker Petzold
** Joan B. Pitkin
** Mary Louise Preis
Senator Catherine Pugh
Delegate Barbara Robinson
** Jean W. Roesser
** Ida G. Ruben
** Joan F. Stern
** J. Anita Stup
** Betty Workman

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Massachusetts

Representative Christine E. Canavan
Senator Harriette L. Chandler
** Carol A. Donovan
Representative Gloria L. Fox
** Barbara Gardner
** Barbara E. Gray
Representative Lida E. Harkins
** Barbara C. Hyland
Representative Patricia D. Jehlen
Representative Kay Khan
Representative Jim Marzilli
** Linda J. Melconian
** Lois G. Pines
Senator Karen E. Spilka
** Jo Ann Sprague
Representative Patricia A. Walrath
** Dianne Wilkerson
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Michigan

Representative Fran Amos
** Laura L. Baird
** Lyn Bankes
Senator Liz Brater
Senator Deborah L. Cherry
** Patricia Godchaux
Senator Gilda Z. Jacobs
** Lynne Martinez
** Susan Grimes Munsell
Representative Stacy Erwin Oakes
** Mary Lou Parks
**Martha G. Scott
** Alma Wheeler Smith
Representative Maureen Stapleton

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Minnesota

*** Janet Johnson
Senator Ellen Anderson
Senator Linda Berglin
Representative Karen Clark
** Carol Flynn
** Betty Folliard
Representative Marion Greene
Representative Mindy Greiling
** Alice M. Johnson
** Ember Reichgott Junge
Representative Phyllis Kahn
** Jane Krentz
** Dee A. Long
** Becky Lourey
* U.S. Representative Betty McCollum
** Mary Jo McGuire
Representative Rena Moran
Senator Sandra L. Pappas
** Pat Piper
** Sandy Rummel
Senator Katie Sieben
Representative Kathy Tingelstad
Representative Jean Wagenius
** Deanna L. Wiener

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Mississippi

Representative Alyce Griffin Clarke
Representative Frances Fredericks
Senator Alice Harden
Representative Jessica Upshaw
** Gloria C. Williamson

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Missouri

** Joan Bray
Representative Kimberly Campbell
** Marsha Campbell
** Paula J. Carter
Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal
** Nancy Copenhaver
Representative Becky Currie
** Rita Heard Days
Representative Connie L. Johnson
Senator Jolie L. Justus
Representative Jenee N. Lowe
** Sheila Lumpe
Representative Stacey Newman
** Sue Shear
** Betty Sims
Representative Juanita Head Walton
** Deleta Williams
** Vicky Riback Wilson
Senator Yvonne S. Wilson
Representative Adrienne Wooten

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Montana

** Beverly Barnhart
Representative Arlene A. Becker
Senator Vicki Cocchiarella
Representative Sue M. Dickenson
** Judy Jacobson
Representative Carol C. Juneau
Senator Christine Kaufmann
** Linda J. Nelson
** Debbie Shea
** Emily Swanson
Senator Carol Williams
Representative Franke Wilmer

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Nebraska

** Pam Brown
** Jennie Robak

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Nevada

Representative Barbara E. Buckley
** Marcia De Braga
** Jan Evans
Assemblymember Ellen M. Koivisto
Assemblymember Kathy McClain

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New Hampshire

** Mary P. Chambers
** Martha Fuller Clark
** Marion L. Copenhaver
** Elizabeth L. Crory
** Eileen Ehlers
Representative Linda T. Foster
Representative Elizabeth S. Hager
Representative Betty B. Hall
Senator Molly M. Kelly
** Christine M. Konys
Senator Sylvia B. Larsen
** Mary Ellen Martin
Representative Terie T. Norelli
** J. Lisbeth Olimpio
** Debora B. Pignatelli
** Irene A. Pratt
Representative Barbara Hull Richardson
** Jeanne Shaheen
Representative Marjorie K. Smith
** Hilda Weyl Sokol
** Donna Sytek
Representative Mary Jane Wallner
** Jackie K. Weatherspoon
** Katherine Wells Wheeler

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New Jersey

Senator Barbara Buono
Senator Sandra B. Cunningham
Assemblymember Nilsa Cruz-Perez
** Arline M. Friscia
Senator Nia H. Gill
** Ellen Karcher
Assemblymember Sheila Oliver
Assemblymember Joan M. Quigley
Senator Shirley K. Turner
Senator Loretta Weinberg

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New Mexico

** E. Shirley Baca
** Barbara Perea Casey
Senator Dede Feldman
Senator Lynda M. Lovejoy
** Ann J. Riley
** Elizabeth T. Stefanios
Representative Mimi Stewart

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New York

** Catherine Abate
Assemblymember Carmen E. Arroyo
Assemblymember Joan K. Christensen
Assemblymember Barbara M. Clark
Assemblymember Vivian E. Cook
** Gloria Davis
** Eileen C. Dugan
Assemblymember Patricia A. Eddington
Assemblymember Jeffrey Dinowitz
Assemblymember Sandra R. Galef
Assemblymember Deborah J. Glick
Assemblymember Richard Gottfried
*** Audrey Hochberg
Assemblymember Earlene Hill Hooper
Assemblymember Rhoda S. Jacobs
Assemblymember Susan V. John
** Melinda Katz
Senator Liz Krueger
** Naomi C. Matusow
** Olga A. Mendez
Senator Velmanette Montgomery
Assemblymember Catherine T. Nolan
Assemblymember Daniel O’Donnell
Senator Suzi Oppenheimer
Senator Kevin Parker
Assemblymember Amy Paulin
Assemblymember Audrey I. Pheffer
** Nellie Santiago
Senator Diane J. Savino
Senator Eric Schneiderman
** Ada L. Smith
Senator Toby Ann Stavisky
Assemblymember Helene Weinstein

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North Carolina

Representative Alma S. Adams
Representative Martha B. Alexander
Senator Julia Boseman
Senator Janet R. Cowell
** Francis Cummings
Representative Beverly M. Earle
Representative Jean Farmer-Butterfield
Representative Susan Fisher
* U.S. Representative Virginia Ann Foxx
Representative Melanie Wade Goodwin
Representative Verla C. Insko
Senator Eleanor Kinnaird
Representative Jennifer Weiss

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North Dakota

Representative Lois Delmore
** Judy L. DeMers
Representative Mary O. Ekstrom
Representative Kathy Hawken
Senator Carolyn Nelson
** Carol A. Niemeier

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Ohio

** Dixie J. Allen
Representative Nickie J. Antonio
** Catherine L. Barrett
Senator Edna Brown
** Mayor Jane L. Campbell
Representative Kathleen Chandler
Senator Teresa Fedor
** Linda J. Furney
** Rhine L. McLin
** C. J. Prentiss
Senator Charleta B. Tavares

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Oklahoma

** Laura Boyd
**Angela Z. Monson

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Oregon

Senator Kate Brown
Senator Margaret Carter
** Susan Castillo
Representative Jackie Dingfelder
** Joan Dukes
Representative Sara Gelser
** Shirley Gold
Senator Avel Gordly
** Jeanett Hamby
** Lisa Naito
** Kitty Piercy
** Anitra Rasmussen
Representative Diane Rosenbaum
** Barbara Ross
** Gail Shibley
** Jackie Taylor
** Judy Uherbelau
** Sharon Wylie

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Pennsylvania

** Ellen Bard
** Linda Bebko-Jones
Representative Louise Williams Bishop
Senator Lisa M. Boscola
Representative Dan B. Frankel
Representative Babette Josephs
Senator Shirley M. Kitchen
Senator Daylin Leach
Representative Phyllis Mundy
Representative Cherelle Parker
Representative James R. Roebuck, Jr.
* U.S. Representative Allyson Y. Schwartz
Senator LeAnna M.Washington
Senator Connie Williams
Representative Rosita C. Youngblood

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Puerto Rico

** Carmen Luz Berrios-Rivera
** Norma L. Carranza
** María de Lourdes Ramos Rivera

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Rhode Island

** Sandra Barone
** Melvoid J. Benson
** Ellen Kellner
Senator Rhoda E. Perry

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South Carolina

** Alma W. Byrd
Representative Gilda Cobb-Hunter
** Vida Osteen Miller
** Elsie Rast Stuart

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South Dakota

** Kay S. Jorgensen
** Clarence Kooistra
** V. Joanne Lockner
** Janice Nicolay
** Mary Patterson
** Elaine A. Roberts

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Tennessee

** Kathryn I. Bowers
Representative Henri E. Brooks
Representative John Deberry
Representative Lois M. Deberry
** Mary Ann Eckles
Representative Brenda Gilmore
Representative Sherry Jones

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Texas

Representative Norma Chavez
** Debra Danburg
Representative Yvonne Davis
Representative Dawnna Dukes
Representative Jessica Farrar
** Sylvia Romo
Representative Senfronia Thompson

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Utah

** Judy Ann Buffmire
** Mary Carlson
Representative Rebecca Chavez-Houck
Senator Karen W. Morgan
Representative Jennifer Seelig

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Vermont

** Elaine R. Alfano
** Lynn L. Bohi
** Nancy I. Chard
Representative Johannah L. Donovan
** Carina N. Driscoll
Representative Helen Head
** Henrietta Jordan
Representative Hildegard Ojibway
Representative Ann D. Pugh
Representative Kesha Ram
** Patricia Smith

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Virginia

Delegate Kristen J. Amundson
** Viola Osborne Baskerville
Delegate Robert H. Brink
** Flora Davis Crittenden
** L. Karen Darner
Senator Janet D. Howell
Delegate Marian Van Landingham
Senator L. Louise Lucas
** Emilie Miller
Senator Yvonne B. Miller
Delegate Kenneth R. Plum
Senator Patricia S. Ticer
Senator Margaret Vanderhye
Senator Jill Holtzman Vogel
Senator Mary Margaret Whipple

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Washington

Representative Sherry Appleton
Representative Maralyn Chase
Representative Eileen L. Cody
** Jeralita Costa
Representative Jeannie Darneille
Representative Mary Lou Dickerson
Representative Deborah H. Eddy
** Carolyn Edmonds
** Rosa Franklin
Senator Karen Fraser
** Georgia Gardner
Senator Mary Margaret Haugen
Senator Karen Keiser
Representative Phyllis Gutierrez Kenney
Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles
Representative Connie Ladenburg
** Dawn Mason
** Val Ogden
Senator Margarita Prentice
Representative Mary Helen Roberts
Representative Cindy Ryu
Representative Sharon Tomiko Santos
** Georgette W. Valle
** Velma Veloria
** Lorraine Wojahn
** Cynthia Wooten

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Washington, DC

** Sandy C. Allen
** Linda W. Cropp

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West Virginia

Delegate Bonnie L. Brown
** Vicki V. Douglas
** Barbara Evans Fleischauer
** Susan Hubbard

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Wisconsin

* U.S. Representative Tammy Baldwin
Representative Terese Berceau
Representative Elizabeth Coggs
* U.S. Representative Gwendolynne S. Moore
** Barrbara Notestein
** Rose Potter
Senator Lena C. Taylor

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Wyoming

** Wende Barker
** Lorna Johnson
Representative Sue Wallis

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