Boston Marathon as a numbered entry. Muriel Siebert was the first female member of the New York Stock Exchange. 1969 Carol Doda was the first woman in America to perform as a bottomless entertainer. 1970s 1970 Diane Crump was the first woman in America to ride in the Kentucky Derby, she placed fifteenth. Patricia Palinkas was the first woman to play professionally in an American football game. 1972 Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington were the first women in the United States promoted to brigadier general. Sally Priesand was ordained on June 3rd, 1972, by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion's president Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk at Plum Street Temple in Cincinnati, making her the first woman ordained as a rabbi in the United States, and only the second woman ever formally ordained in the history of Judaism. Katharine Graham was the first female Fortune 500 CEO, as CEO of the Washington Post company. Tonie Nathan was the first woman in America to receive an electoral vote for vice president in a presidential election. 1973 Shirley Muldowney was the first woman to receive a NHRA license to drive Top Fuel dragsters, the highest level of the drag racing sport. 1974 Jeannette Piccard was the first female balloon pilot licensed in the United States; she was also the first woman to ascend to the stratosphere. Ella T. Grasso was the first woman elected a U.S. governor who was not the wife or widow of a governor. She was elected governor of Connecticut. 1975 Barbara Ostfeld-Horowitz was the first female cantor ordained in Reform Judaism, in 1975. Carla Anderson Hills became the first woman to serve as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; she served under President Gerald Ford. Alice Rivlin became founder and the first woman to serve as Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). 1976 Shirley Black, aka Shirley Temple, was the first woman to be chief of protocol, which she was for President Gerald Ford. Lucy Giovinco was the first female in America to win the AMF Bowling World Cup. Women first began to attend the U.S. service academies. Shirley Muldowney was the first woman to win a NHRA national event. Emily Howell Warner was the first woman to become an American airline captain. 1977 Janet Guthrie was the first woman to compete in the Daytona 500 and the first woman to lead a NASCAR Winston Cup