Articles

• “25 Famous Black Female Politicians Who Are Great Role Models,” Ranker

       Rutgers' Websites

• Facts on Women of Color in Office
• History of Women of Color in U.S. Politics – Rutgers
• Women of Color in Elective Office 2019

Mayors

• List of Mayors 
• Christina Coleman. “Woke 100: Majority of Black Women Mayors Across the Nation Gather For Special Portrait,” Essence, [Online], April 27, 2018.
• Shelby Copeland, “Black women govern only 4% of the biggest US cities. But their numbers are growing,” CNN, April 3, 2019.

Presidents & Vice Presidents

• Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - President of the Republic of Liberia in 2005
• Epsy Campbell Barr - Vice Presidents of Costa Rica

Prime Minister

     Africa

• Luísa Dias Diogo - 3rd Prime Minister of Mozambique | A | B |
• Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila - 4th Prime Minister of Namibia | A | B |
• Agathe Uwilingiyimana - 4th Prime Minister of Rwanda

     Caribbean

• Mary Eugenia Charles - 2nd Prime Minister of Dominica
• Dame Pamela F. Gordon - 6th Premier of Bermuda
• Mia Mottley - 8th Prime Minister of Barbados
• Cynthia A. "Mother" Pratt - Deputy Prime Minister of the Bahamas
• Portia Lucretia Simpson-Miller - 7th Prime Minister of Jamaica
• Claudette Werleigh - 7th Prime Minister of Haiti

Senator

• Kerryann F. Ifill - Barbadian politician

Lieutenant Governors and Governor Generals

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United States 

       Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs

• Mary Elizabeth Taylor - youngest assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs in history and the first black woman to serve in that post. | A | B | C |

     Run for President of the United States

• Charlene Mitchell  (1968)
• Shirley Chisholm  (1972)
• Lenora Fulani (1988)
• Carol Moseley Braun (2003)
• Cynthia McKinney (2008)
• Kamala Devi Harris (2020)

   US Senior Advisor to the President

• Valerie Jarrett (to President Barack Obama)

   United States Cabinet Secretaries

• Loretta Lynch (83rd United States Attorney General) | A | B | C |
• Patricia Roberts Harris (1st United States Secretary of Health and Human Services)
• Alexis M. Herman (23rd United States Secretary of Labor)
• Hazel Reid O'Leary (7th United States Secretary of Energy)
• Condoleezza Rice (66th United States Secretary of State) | A | B  | C |

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