Perry Gates ’59

When Janet Mills was elected our first female Governor of Maine last year, she brought with her a new wave of Commissioners. Her selection for Commissioner of the Department of Education is a business friend and colleague, Pender Makin, who promptly called me to ask if I would join her team at the Department. How […]

Aloyse Blair Brown ’96

I am the first woman to run for Hamilton County Mayor in Tennessee and am told that my campaign had profound impact on peoples perceptions of local politics, what politicians look like, and who they are. I won the Democratic primary in May with 70% of the vote, but lost the general election in August […]