Congress will be the most diverse it’s ever been, voting in a record number of minorities, in particular females of color. Here is a list of just a few who will make this Congress historic:
National Level
- Catherine Cortez Masto: US Senator from Nevada – First Latina to be elected to senate
- Kamala Harris: US Senator from California – First Indian-American and second black female senator.
- Tammy Duckworth: US Senator from Illinois – First Thai-American elected to the senate. Former military veteran who lost her leg in the Iraq War
- Maggie Hassan: US Senator from New Hampshire
- Tim Scott: US Senator from South Carolina – “First black Republican from the south to be elected to a full Senate term since the Reconstruction era”
- Pramila Jayapal: House of Reps from Washington – Immigrant “born in India and raised in Indonesia and Singapore.”
- Stephanie Murphy: House of Reps from Florida – Daughter of Vietnamese refugees and first Vietnamese American elected to Congress
- Nanette Barragan: House of Reps from California – First Latina elected by Los Angeles congressional district
- Colleen Hanabusa: House of Reps from Hawaii
- Lisa Blunt Rochester: House of Reps from Delaware – First “African-American to serve in Congress from Delaware”
- Val Demings: House of Reps from Florida – First African-American to be elected by her district
State Level
- Kate Brown: Governor of Oregon – First openly LGBT person to be elected governor of a state
- Ilhan Omar: Minnesota House of Reps: Former Somalian refugee. First Somalian-American legislator
- Cyrus Habib: Lieutenant Governor of Washington – Blind Iranian-American. Highest ranking Iranian-American official
- Misty Snow & Misty Plowright: First transgender candidates to receive major party nominations for House and Senate in their respective states. Snow losing Senate seat in Utah and Plowright losing House seat in Colorado
