These women changed AZ for the better
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Team, March is Women’s History Month, and we wanted to take a break from our normal fundraising to highlight three Arizona women who made a major difference in our state.
There are many remarkable Arizonan women who have made an impact or are currently making an impact on this state. Here are three who have changed our state for the better.
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Rose Mofford was the first woman to serve as governor of our state. Prior to becoming governor, she served as Arizona’s first female secretary of state from 1977 to 1988.
Mofford earned respect from both parties and won reelection as Secretary of State by a large margin in 1982 and was unopposed in 1986. When she took over as governor after the 1988 impeachment and removal of Governor Evan Mecham, she was hailed as “the healing governor” for returning stability to the state and easing racial tensions.
Remarkably, she achieved all of this despite a requirement in Arizona’s Constitution that state officeholders must be men — something Arizona’s voters quickly fixed with Proposition 103 just months after she became governor.
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Janet Napolitano has the honor of trailblazing several paths consecutively. Napolitano was the first woman to serve as Arizona attorney general, then became the first woman elected as Arizona governor, then became the first woman to be U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security.
As AZ governor, Time magazine named her one of the five best governors in America. Napolitano’s other honors include the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service and being named one of the most powerful women in the world by Forbes magazine.
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Annie Dodge Wauneka, designated “The Legendary Mother of the Navajo Nation” by the Navajo Council, was the first Native American to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. When she was just eight years old, the Spanish Flu Pandemic killed thousands of Navajos and many of her classmates.
While she survived with just a mild case, the experience gave her a passion for public health that she followed all the way to the Tribal Council, where she served as the head of the Health and Welfare Committee.
Through her many public health campaigns, she worked to promote modern medical practices, provide clean drinking water and improve other sanitary conditions, and fight alcoholism and disease.
These three women made Arizona a better place. Here at the Arizona Democratic Party, we are committed to empowering women to make history just like these three did.
Sincerely,
AZ Dems
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