Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
USA Parties

Also see United States of America Government

Information on Congressional Leadership is partly the curtsey of "Center for the American and Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University

1924 Vice-President of National Democratic Committee Emily Newell

1928-33 Deputy Chairperson of National Democratic Committee Nellie Tayloe Ross
She was Governor of Wyoming 1927-27 and Director of US Mint 1933-ca.48. She lived (1877-1977)

1940-54 Deputy Chairperson of National Republican Committee Katharine Kennedy Brown

1944-89 Secretary of the Democratic Party Dorothy Vreedenburgh Bush
She lived (1916-91)

1949-51 Secretary of the Democratic Caucus  in the House of Representative Chase G. Woodhouse

1953-57 and 1963-65 Secretary of the Democratic Caucus  in the House of Representative Edna F. Kelly
 
1954 Assistant  Chairperson of National Republican Committee Ivy Maude Baker Priest

1959-75 Secretary of the Democratic Caucus  in the House of Representatives Leonor K. Sullivan

1961-64 (†) Chairperson of National Committee of American Communist Party Elizabeth Curley Flynn

1967-73 Chairperson of the Senate Republican Conference Margaret Chase Smith
Senator for Maine 1949-73. Presidential Candidate 1964

1971-73 Co-Chairperson of National Republican Committee Anne Legendre Armstrong

1972 Co-Chairperson of National Democratic Committee Jean Miles Westwood

1972-74 Chairperson of the Libertarian Party Susan Nolan

1974-76  Chairperson of National Republican Committee Mary Louise Smith
(d. 1997)

1981-94 Chairperson of American Independence Party Eileen M. Shearer

1981-83 Chairperson of the Libertarian Party Alicia Garcia Gark

1983-87 Co-Chair of the National Republican Committee Betty Heitman

1987-89 Co-Chair of the National Republican Committee Maureen Reagan

1991-93 Chairperson of the Libertarian Party Mary T. Gingell

1994-95 Chairperson of National Democratic Committee Debra DeLee

1995-? Chairperson of Libertarian Party Mary T. Gingell

1995-2001 Deputy Majority Whip in Senate (R) Kay Bailey Hutchinson
2001-07 Vice-Chairperson of the Senate Republican Committee
2007-12 Chairperson of the Republican Policy Committee
Lost the nomination for Republican candidate for governor of Texas in 2010.

1995-99 Co-Chairperson of the House Democratic Policy Committee Eva Clayton

1997-99 Deputy Majority Whip in House of Representatives Deborah Pryce
1999-2001 Secretary of the House Republican Conference
2001-03 Vice-Chairperson of the House Republican Conference
2003-07 Chairperson of the House Republican Conference

1995-... Co-Chairperson of Socialist Party of USA Kari Fischer

2001-05 Co-Chairperson of the National Republican Committee Ann Wagher
Ambassador to Luxembourg 2005-09 and elected to the House of Representatives in 2013

2001-02 Democratic Whip in the House of Representatives Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi
2002- Leader of the Democrats in the House (Minority Leader 2002-07 and Speaker 2007-11)
Member of the House since 1987. Speaker of the House of Represenatives from January 2007. Mother of 4 daughters and 1 son. (b. 1940-).

2005-07 Chairperson of the National Republican Senatorial Committee Elizabeth H. Dole

2006-07 Chief Deputy Whip of the Democrats in the House of Representatives Debbie Wasserman Schultz
2011-16 Chair of the Democratic National Committee

2011 Acting Chair of the Democratic National Committee Donna Brazile
2011- Vice-Chair of the NDC

2011- Co-Chair of the National Republican Committee Sharon Day

2013- Chairperson of the House Republican Conference Cathy McMorris Rodgers

2016- Acting Chair of the Democratic National Committee Donna Brazile

Last update 27.07.16