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Powerful women in Washington From the American Red Cross to the Supreme Court, more and more institutions of power in the nation’s capital are seeing women take the lead.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks on the release of the State Department's 2009 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices at the State Department in Washington. In 2000, Clinton made history by becoming the first first lady elected to the United States Senate. In 2009, she became secretary of state.
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Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor steps up to speak after President Obama announced her as his choice of nomination for the Supreme Court justice, to replace retiring Justice David Souter in the East Room at the White House in May 2009. Justice Sotomayor became the first Hispanic woman to serve on the court.
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Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan enters the committee room on the third day of hearings, before testifying in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in June 2010. Kagan became the fourth female to serve on the court.
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Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. secretary of health and human services, second from left, meets with insurance industry executives and officials at the White House in March 2010. Sebelius was the second female governor of Kansas, and in 2011, she was named the 13th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.
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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, shown in her office in Washington in April 2010, was Arizona’s third female governor and the first female attorney general of Arizona.
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Acting D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson congratulates the Class of 2011 Most Improved Student Award winners inside the Wilson building in June. Henderson was previously the deputy chancellor, and has served as executive director of Team for America-D.C.
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Samantha Power, senior director for multilateral affairs and human rights at the National Security Council and foreign policy adviser to President Obama, emerges from the West Wing of the White House in Washington in October 2010. Power was the founding executive director at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, where she is the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy. Her book, “A Problem from Hell,” won a Pulitzer Prize in 2003.
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White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and White House social secretary Desiree Rogers chat during a press conference in the Rose Garden of the White House, where President Obama was meeting with President Lee Myung-bak in June 2009. Jarrett was previously the chairman of the Chicago Transit Board, the commissioner of planning and development for the city of Chicago, and deputy chief of staff for Mayor Richard M. Daley.
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President Obama's director of the White House Office for Health Reform, Nancy-Ann DeParle, moderates a follow-up meeting on health reform with health-care professionals. As Obama’s health czar, DeParle was the administration’s "point guard" in overhauling the American health-care system.
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Mary Schapiro, the first female chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, speaks at an SEC meeting in Washington in October 2009.
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U.S. Republican presidential candidate and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann arrives to speak at the annual Republican Party of Iowa Ronald Reagan Dinner in Des Moines on Nov. 4. Bachmann became the first Republican woman to be elected in Minnesota to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2006.
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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) applauds as then-Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) speaks at a rally in Coral Gables, Fla. Rep. Wasserman Schultz is the first Jewish congresswoman elected from Florida, and is currently chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
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AP
IMF chief Christine Lagarde talks during a press conference on Nov. 4 on the last day of the G-20 Summit of Heads of State and Government in Cannes, France. Lagarde is the first woman to ever head the IMF.
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Chairman and chief executive of BET Networks Debra L. Lee speaks during the BET panel at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Pasadena, Calif., in July 2009.
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Gail J. McGovern, president and chief executive of the American Red Cross, is pictured in her Washington office.
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Elizabeth Broun is the director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery.
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