; Whereas, in 1922, Rebecca Felton of Georgia was the first woman appointed to the serve in the Senate; Whereas, in 1925, Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming was elected as the first woman to serve as Governor of a State; Whereas, in 1932, Hattie Caraway of Arkansas was the first woman elected to the Senate; Whereas, in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated the first female Cabinet Secretary, Francis Perkins, who served as Secretary of Labor; Whereas, in 1946, Felicita Mendez fought against discrimination and segregation in the California public education system, winning the landmark case Mendez, et al. v. Westminster School District of Orange County, which paved the way for the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision in 1954; Whereas, in 1964, Patsy Matsu Mink was the first woman of color and first Asian-American woman elected to the United States House of Representative; Whereas, in 1968, Shirley Chisholm was the first Black woman elected to the United States House of Representatives, and was the first woman and Black woman to seek nomination for the President of the United States of American in 1972; Whereas, as recently as the 1970s, women’s history was rarely included in the kindergarten through grade 12 curriculum and was not part of public awareness; Whereas the Education Task Force of the Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women initiated a Women’s History Week celebration in 1978 centered around International Women’s History Day, which is celebrated on March 8; Whereas, in 1980, the National Women’s History Project (known as the National Women’s History Alliance) was founded in Sonoma County, California, to broadcast women’s historical achievements; Whereas, in 1981, responding to the growing popularity of women’s history celebrations, Congress passed a resolution making Women’s History Week a national observance