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Evening gown worn by Governor Madeleine Kunin at her third inaugural ball. Designed by Elaine Horseman of Essex Junction with Kunin's input. This gown shows the slimmer, draped silhouette coming in to style in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The…

Madeleine Kunin appointed Denise Johnson, the first woman to sit on the Vermont Supreme Court, in 1990. With Kunin and Johnson is outgoing justice Louis Peck, whose seat Johnson took.

Governor Madeleine Kunin campaigning for Democratic candidates in Vermont at the end of her last term as governor.

Madeleine Kunin, in her capacity as Ambassador to Switzerland and Lichtenstein, visits the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva. Kunin was appointed Ambassador by President Bill Clinton and served from 1996 to 1999.

Governor Madeleine Kunin returned to Vermont in 1999 and began a series of academic appointments at colleges and universities, including as Marsh Professor-At-Large at the University of Vermont. The Marsh program brings scholars of international…

Governor Kunin poses for a photograph with a graduating class of EmergeVT trainees in the fall of 2019. EmergeVT recruits and trains women to run for office for the Democratic Party. It is a national organization, and Governor Kunin founded the…

Edna Louise Beard was the first Vermont woman to be elected to the Vermont House of Representatives and to the Vermont Senate. Three months after the 19th Amendment was passed in 1920 giving women suffrage, Beard took office as Representative from…

Consuelo Northrop Bailey was born on the Northrop family farm in Fairfield in 1899. She attended high school in St. Albans and graduated from the University of Vermont in 1921. Bailey later entered Boston University Law School, graduating in…

Desk #145 from the Vermont State House, now part of the collections of the Vermont Historical Society, was used by both Edna Beard and Consuelo Northrop Bailey.

Beard chose the desk at random, at the beginning of her first term as the first woman…

Mary Jean Simpson was born in East Craftsbury, Vermont and attended Craftsbury Academy, Wheaton Seminary in Massachusetts, and St. Johnsbury Academy from which she graduated in 1908. She went on to the University of Vermont, but transferred to Mount…

Esther Hartigan Sorrell was a Vermont State Senator (1973-1983) who helped launch the political careers of many people, including Governors Madeleine Kunin and Howard Dean.

Esther Hartigan was born on April 24, 1920 in Burlington, Vermont and…