Virginia Trotter
... that Virginia Trotter, Assistant Secretary of Education from 1974 to 1977, was the first woman to hold the U.S. government's highest education post, although it did not become a cabinet-level position until 1979?
... that <b id="mwDXE"><a href="./Virginia_Trotter" id="mwDXI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Virginia Trotter">Virginia Trotter</a></b>, Assistant Secretary of Education from 1974 to 1977, was the first woman to hold the U.S. government's highest education post, although it did not become a <a href="./Cabinet_of_the_United_States" id="mwDXM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Cabinet of the United States">cabinet-level</a> position until 1979?