Government – Local – Council
London Nicole Breed (1974- )
On June 13, 2018, London Nicole Breed became the first African American woman elected as mayor of the city of San Francisco,...
Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana (1949- )
Afro-German politician, human rights activist, and scholar Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana was born in Bamako, Mali, but grew up in Dakar, Senegal, the daughter of a Cape Verdean mother, Dona...
Velvalea “Vel” Hortense Rodgers Phillips (1924-2018)
Velvalea “Vel” Phillips was a civil rights pioneer in Wisconsin. She was the first African American and the first woman...
Anthony Renard Foxx (1971- )
Anthony Foxx, the seventeenth United States Secretary of Transportation, was born April 30, 1971 in Charlotte, North Carolina, and raised...
Sherry D. Harris (1957- )
In 1991, Sherry D. Harris was the first Black lesbian elected to public office in the United States. This also...
Richard McIver (1941-2013)
Richard J. McIver was first appointed to fill a vacancy on the Seattle City Council in early 1997 and was...
Sheila Jackson Lee (1950-2024)
Longtime Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee was born on January 12, 1950 in Queens, New York. She graduated from Jamaica...
Barbara-Rose Collins (1939- )
U.S. Congresswoman Barbara-Rose Collins was born in Detroit, Michigan on April 13, 1939 to Lunar N. and Vera (Jones) Richardson....
