was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (for her play Miss Lulu Bett) 1922 November 21 - Rebecca Latimer Felton became the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate; she appointed by the state governor to represent Georgia, although she served for only one day. 1923 Florence King became the first woman to win a case before the U.S. Supreme Court (Crown v. Nye). 1923 Ella Lillian Wall Van Leer became the first woman to serve in an office of the American Legion and would later successfully advocate for women to be admitted into Georgia Tech. 1924 Juliana R. Force was the first woman to present folk art in an official public showing exhibition in America. 1925 Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first woman elected governor of a U.S. state; she nominated for the unexpired term as governor of Wyoming upon the death of her husband. An All-Woman Supreme Court in Texas, the first woman-majority state Supreme Court in U.S. history, sits for a five-month special sitting on a single case, disbanding shortly afterward. 1926 Gertrude Ederle was the first woman to swim across the English Channel. 1928 Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic ocean. Genevieve R. Cline was the first woman appointed as a United States federal judge. 1930s 1930 Ellen Church was the first female flight attendant in America; she suggested the idea of female nurses on board to Boeing Air Transport, claiming that if people felt safer they would fly more. 1931 Jane Addams was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize; she shared the prize with Nicholas Murray Butler. 1932 Hattie Caraway was the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate. 1933 Ruth Bryan Owen became the first woman ever to serve as a chief of mission at the minister rank, and as such the first woman to serve as minister to Denmark and Iceland; she served under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Frances Perkins became the first woman ever to serve in a presidential cabinet, and as such the first woman to serve as Secretary of Labor; she served under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1934 Gertrude Atherton was the first woman to be president of the (American) National Academy of Literature. Lettie Pate Whitehead was the first woman to serve as a director of a major corporation (The Coca-Cola Company). 1935 Kate Galt