U.S. Women's Firsts
| Name | First U.S female... | Year |
| Ann Bradstreet | author in America | 1640 |
| Ann Franklin | newspaper editor | 1762 |
| Mary Kies | granted a patent | 1809 |
| Susan G. Bagley | telegrapher | 1846 |
| Frances B. Whitcher | humorist | 1846 |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | awarded a medical degree | 1849 |
| Antoinette B. Blackwell | ordained minister | 1853 |
| E. R. Jones | dentist | 1855 |
| Mary Surratt | hanged by U.S. government | 1865 |
| Mary Edwards Walker | Medal of Honor recipient | 1866 |
| Esther Hobart | justice of the peace | 1870 |
| Frances E. Willard | college president | 1871 |
| Victoria Woodhull | presidential candidate | 1872 |
| Helen Magill | Ph.D. awarded to a woman | 1877 |
| Susanna Salter | mayor (Argonia, Kansas) | 1887 |
| Naggie L. Walker | bank president | 1903 |
| Bessica Raiche | solo flight | 1910 |
| Alice Wells | policewoman (Los Angeles) | 1910 |
| Harriet Quimby | licensed airplane pilot | 1911 |
| Annette A. Adams | federal prosecutor | 1914 |
| Jeanette Rankin | member of U.S. House of Representatives | 1916 |
| Annette Adams | U.S. district attorney | 1918 |
| Opha May Johnson | marine | 1918 |
| Marie Luhring | automotive engineer | 1920 |
| Nellie Taylor Ross | elected governor of a state | 1925 |
| Phoebe Omlie | licensed pilot | 1927 |
| Jane Addams | Nobel Peace Prize recipient | 1931 |
| Amelia Earhart | transatlantic solo flight | 1932 |
| Hattie Caraway | elected to U.S. Senate | 1932 |
| Frances Perkins | cabinet member (Labor) | 1933 |
| Helen Richey | commercial airline pilot | 1934 |
| Gretchen Schoenleber | stock exchange member | 1935 |
| Georgia N. Clark | Treasurer of the United States | 1949 |
| Eugenie M. Anderson | United States ambassador | 1949 |
| Jerrie Mock | solo flight around the world | 1964 |
| Diane Crump | jockey in Kentucky Derby | 1970 |
| Billie Jean King | athlete to earn $100,000 a year | 1971 |
| Janet Gray Hayes | mayor of major city (San Jose) | 1974 |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | member of U.S. Supreme Court | 1981 |
| Dr. Sally K. Ride | astronaut to ride in space | 1983 |
| Geraldine A. Ferraro | candidate for vice president | 1984 |
| Kathryn D. Sullivan | astronaut to walk in space | 1984 |
| Libby Riddles | winner of Iditarod dogsled race | 1985 |
| Robin Ahrens | FBI agent killed on duty | 1985 |
| Lynette Woodard | member of Harlem Globetrotters | 1985 |
| Capt. Linda Bray | to lead American troop in combat | 1989 |
Excerpt from The Social Studies Teacher's Book of Lists .
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