Women ruled the 2022 midterm elections

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In honor of today's inauguration of Maura Healey, I've compiled a list of female politicians who wrote history following the 2022 midterm elections.

Democrat Maura Healey, the former attorney general of Massachusetts, is the commonwealth's first elected female governor. Her successor as AG, Democrat Andrea Campbell, is the first black woman elected attorney general of this state.
Healey has also made history today as the first out lesbian governor in US history. Governor-elect Tina Kotek of Oregon will merely be the second out lesbian governor, as she will only be sworn in on January 9.

Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the former Trump White House press secretary, will be the first woman elected governor of Arkansas, winning the office her father previously held from 1996 through to 2007. thus moreover becoming the first daughter in US history to serve as governor of the same state her father once led.
Her deputy, Republican Leslie Rutledge, will be the first woman elected lieutenant governor of Arkansas.

With the election of Maura Healey and her running mate, Kim Driscoll, Massachusetts will join Arkansas as the first states to have women serving concurrently as governor and lieutenant governor. Technically, Healey/Driscoll will be the first female duo to govern a U.S. state, as Huckabee Sanders/Rutledge will only be sworn-in on January 10; but since lieutenant governors are elected on separate tickets in Arkansas, they also set a record by becoming the first all-female governing duo consisting of two separately elected women (which is imho the "superior" record).

Republican Katie Britt is the first elected female senator from Alabama, winning an open-seat race to succeed her onetime boss, retiring GOP Sen. Richard Shelby. Two women - Dixie Bibb Graves (1937/38) and Maryon Pittman Allen (1978) - have previously represented Alabama in the Senate, but both were appointed to fill vacancies. All three women happen to be Class-3 senatrixes.

Democrat Yadira Caraveo, the daughter of Mexican immigrant parents, will be the first Latina elected to Congress from Colorado, after winning the race for the state’s new 8th Congressional District.

Democrat Stephanie Thomas assumed office yesterday as the first black woman elected secretary of state of Connecticut.

Democrat Aruna Miller, who immigrated to the US with her family from India as a child, will be the first Asian American lieutenant governor of Maryland. Miller was elected on the same ticket as Wes Moore, the first black governor of Maryland.

Democrat Kathy Hochul is the first elected female governor of New York, winning a full four-year term to the office she assumed last year after Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned.

Democrat Marcy Kaptur won a 21st term to the House from Ohio, and has therefore become the longest-serving woman in Congress once she was sworn in on Tuesday to represent the state’s 9th Congressional District. Kaptur, who was first elected in 1982 and has already been the longest-serving woman in House history, has broken the record set by Barbara Mikulski, who represented Maryland in the House and Senate for a combined 40 years.

Democrat Summer Lee is the first black woman elected to Congress from Pennsylvania, winning election to the state’s 12th Congressional District. a Pittsburgh-area constituency.

Democrat Becca Balint is the first woman elected to Congress from Vermont, winning election to the state’s at-large district. With Balint’s win, Vermont will lose its distinction as the only US state never to have sent a woman to Congress. Balint, the former president pro tempore of the state Senate, will also be the first out LGBTQ person elected to Congress from Vermont.
Vermont will also end another misogynist streak of its: Charity Clark will be the first woman elected attorney general of Vermont.

Further, Democrat Karen Bass is the first woman and the first black woman elected mayor of Los Angeles, having taken office on December 12, 2022. Bass was on Joe Biden’s short list for a running mate in the 2020 campaign. She’s no stranger to making history: Bass previously served in the California State Assembly, where in 2008 she became the first Black woman to serve as speaker of a state legislature.

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Democrat Kathy Hochul is the first elected female governor of New York, winning a full four-year term to the office she assumed last year after Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned.

The less her disastrous, House-costing performance is mentioned, the better.
Since she cost Democrats the House anyway, I'd almost be happy if Hochul had lost to Zeldin (with the perhaps unrealistic assumption/condition that no other House seats flip red in addition to those that did IRL). And definitely, if I could trade any of the House seats that flipped red for the governorship (i.e., give Democrats one more House seat, but lose the NY governorship), I'd do it, mostly because it's a good idea politically, but partly to spite Hochul.