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20 Cards in this Set
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She became the first woman to hold the rank of Brigadier General in the Oklahoma Air National Guard and the first female commander of the Air National Guard.
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Maj. Gen. LaRita Aragon
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She is the first woman to serve as Democratic Leader of the Oklahoma House of Representatives and has the unique distinction of having served in all three branches of government.
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Jari Askins
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She was the first African American woman elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives where she served from 1968 to 1980.
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Hannah Atkins
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She was the first woman in the United States elected to a state office in 1907.
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Kate Barnard
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she graduated from Oklahoma A&M College in 1897 she became the first woman to graduate from any college in Oklahoma.
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Jessie Thatcher Bost
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Known as “Oklahoma’s greatest historian” she researched and wrote primarily about Native American and Oklahoma history.
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Angie Debo
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She successfully challenged the University of Oklahoma Law School’s segregation policy, becoming the first African American student to attend an all-white law school in the South.
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Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher
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1984 she became the second woman ever appointed to the Oklahoma Supreme Court.
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Yvonne Kauger
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In 1920 she became the first woman elected to the Oklahoma State Senate.
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Mirabeau Lamar Looney
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Raised in Bethany, OK, she was the first woman to receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
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Shannon Lucid
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She is a civil rights activist that led America’s first “sit-in” at lunch counters in Oklahoma City in 1958.
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Clara Luper
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She was the first woman Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, where she served from 1985 to 1995. She was also the first woman Deputy Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
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Wilma Mankiller
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In 1994 she was appointed by President Clinton as Federal Judge to the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. She is the first African-American Federal Judge in the six states that make up the Tenth Circuit, which are Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.
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Vicki Miles-LaGrange
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On December 15, 1975 she made her Metropolitan Opera debut. She performed for eighteen consecutive seasons at the Metropolitan Opera. In 2004 Governor Henry named her cultural ambassador for the State of Oklahoma.
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Leona Mitchell
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While at KWTV Channel 9, she became the first woman to anchor a primetime newscast in Oklahoma. She worked for Oklahoma Journal, Midwest City Monitor, CBS News, Tulsa World and was a CNN Congressional and White House correspondent.
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Pam Olson
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She managed NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, becoming the first woman to manage a NASA program, and led the team that flew the Pathfinder and Sojourner to Mars in 1997.
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Donna Shirley
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She organized the first school in Oklahoma City to train black nurses, worked to desegregate the College of Nursing at the University of Oklahoma in the 1950s, and established the School of Nursing at Langston University in the 1970s.
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Opaline Deveraux Wadkins
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1982 she became the first female appointed to the Oklahoma Supreme Court and the first female Chief Justice.
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Alma Wilson
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She served as First Lady of the State of Oklahoma for two terms, from 1963 to 1967 and from 1987 to 1991. Along with being a clothing designer, stained-glass artist and collectible-doll maker, she was active promoting Oklahoma’s Main Streets, Made in Oklahoma products, craft items and events, an anti-drug campaign, and keeping the state litter-free.
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Shirley Bellmon
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She became the first female mayor in Oklahoma in 1957 when she was elected Mayor of Norman. She was also an educator and women’s suffrage advocate.
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June Tompkins Benson
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