Frances Perkins, who served as Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945.
Frances Perkins, who was Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, was the first woman to serve in any president's cabinet.
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US President Jimmy Carter appointed her secretary of housing and urban development in 1977. She was the first African American woman to join the Cabinet.
Franklin Roosevelt was the first President to appoint a woman to his cabinet. In 1933 he appointed Frances Perkins to be Secretary of Labor. (The next president to appoint a women to his cabinet was Dwight Eisenhower in 1953.)Before that, she was appointed by FDR as New York's industrial commissioner when he was still the governor. She gained much respect in as a result of leading progressive reform and championing minimum wages and unemployment insurance laws.In the United States, Frances Perkins was the first woman to serve in the Cabinet. President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed her Secretary of Labor in 1933.
Roberta Harris was the first woman to serve in the Presidents Cabinet in 1896
Edith Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize.
Frances Perkins
Yes - her name was Frances Perklins.
The president that was first to appoint a woman to the supreme court was JFK.
The second female cabinet appointment came from President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953 when he appointed Oveta Culp Hobby the Secretary of Helth, Education and Welfare. The first President to appoint a woman was Franklin Roosevelt (Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, 1933).
Ronald Reagan nominated and appointed Sandra Day O'Connor as the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court in 1981. O'Connor retired in January 2006.
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