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Gertrude Cohen papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0358
Abstract

Member of the Iowa House of Representatives, 1965-1966, and the first Jewish woman elected to the Iowa Legislature.

Dates: 1964-1991

Gladys Nelson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0662
Abstract

Republican Iowa legislator from 1950 to 1956 and former president of the League of Women Voters of Iowa.

Dates: 1938-1995

Jane Burleson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0340
Abstract

Teacher's aide, packinghouse worker, and union activist, Burleson was the first woman and first African American elected to the Fort Dodge City Council.

Dates: 1931-1998

Jane Christoffer Rubel papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0346
Abstract

High school bascketball player who sued the Iowa Girl's High School Athletic Union to be allowed to play on the school team after becoming pregnant.

Dates: 1969-1993

Janet Shipton papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0264
Abstract

Political activist and Johnson County, Iowa, supervisor who was the daughter of British Prime Minister Clement Attlee.

Dates: 1936-1991

Janis Torrence Laughlin papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0125
Abstract

Muscatine County Supervisor from 1976 to 1982 and Representative in the Iowa Legislature from 1983 to 1985.

Dates: 1976-1990

Jean and John L. Schneiders papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0783
Abstract

Davenport community and civil rights activists during the 1960s.

Dates: 1962-2008

Jean Lloyd-Jones papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0066
Abstract

State legislator from Iowa City and president of the Iowa Peace Institute.

Dates: 1964-2021

Jeanne Bridenstine papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0187
Abstract

First woman elected chairperson of the Jasper County Democratic Central Committee in 1972.

Dates: 1962-2014

Jo Ann Zimmerman papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0351
Abstract

Elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in 1982 and in 1986, she became the first woman Lieutenant Governor of Iowa.

Dates: 1958-1995

Joan Lipsky papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0071
Abstract

Iowa legislator and community activist from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Dates: 1880-2015

Joann Orr papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0807
Abstract

State senator from 1972 to 1980 from Grinnell, Iowa.

Dates: 1969-2017

Johnie Hammond papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0563
Abstract

Democratic representative and senator in the Iowa legislature.

Dates: 1970-2006

Joyce Nielsen papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0665
Abstract

Feminist, legislator and community activist who worked in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Dates: 1951-1996

Joyce Schulte papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0892
Abstract

Democratic candidate for Iowa's fifth congressional district in 2004 and 2006.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 2004-2010

Katherine Mull Falvey Zastrow papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0052
Abstract

State representative from 1958 to 1964 and the first woman elected to Charles City Council, 1970.

Dates: 1927-1995

Katherine Stroud papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0420
Abstract

Leader of the 1949 campaign to reform Des Moines city government and adopt the city manager plan.

Dates: 1940-2001

Kathleen Halloran Chapman papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0263
Abstract

Attorney and Democrat who served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1983 to 1992 and again in 1996.

Dates: 1977-1999

Kim Landhuis papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0236
Abstract

Native of Vietnam who became a teacher, school board member, and 1994 candidate for the Iowa senate.

Dates: 1943-2004

Lena Belle Bock papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0118
Abstract

Member of the Iowa House of Representatives from 1960 to 1964.

Dates: 1960-1981

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Smith, Mary Louise (1914-1997) 3
American Association for the United Nations 2
American Association of University Women 2
Conlin, Roxanne Barton, 1944- 2
Des Moines Art Center 2
Drake University 2
Iowa Commission on the Status of Women 2
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Iowa Women's Political Caucus 2
Iowa. General Assembly 2
League of Women Voters (Des Moines, Iowa) 2
National Federation of Republican Women 2
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Noun, Louise R. (1908-2002) 2
Older Women's League (U.S.) 2
Republican National Convention 2
University of Iowa. Libraries. Iowa Women's Archives 2
Algona High School (Algona, Iowa) 1
American Patients Association 1
Anderson, Margaret "Peg" (1928-2024) 1
Anderson, Ruth Bluford, 1921-2013 1
Association of Trial Lawyers of America 1
Association of Trial Lawyers of Iowa 1
Attlee, C. R. (Clement Richard), 1883-1967 1
Attlee, Felicity 1
Attlee, Martin 1
Attlee, Violet 1
Bock, Lena Belle, 1904-2007 1
Brain family 1
Branstad, Terry E. 1
Bridenstine, Jeanne (1923-2019) 1
Brigance, Linda 1
Brown, Paula Watts, 1909-1974 1
Bucksbaum, Carolyn, 1929- 1
Burleson, Jane, 1928- 1
Bush, George, 1924- 1
Campbell, Bonnie J., 1948- 1
Carpenter, Dorothy, 1933-2011 1
Catholic Interracial Council (Davenport, Iowa) 1
Center for the American Woman and Politics (Eagleton Institute of Politics) 1
Chapman, Kathleen "Kay" Halloran (1937-2026) 1
Chicago Housing Authority 1
Christian Children's Fund 1
Chrysalis Foundation 1
Clark, Betty Jean, 1920-2005 1
Cochrane, William, 1867-1941 1
Cohen, Gertrude (1913-2016) 1
Collins, Susan 1
Collison, Margaret Davis, 1921-2014 1
Conflict and Civility in Political Discourse Symposium (2011 : University of Iowa) 1
Conklin, Charlene, 1929-2022 1
Cooper, Cecile, 1900-1997 1
Cothorn, Marguerite, 1909-1998 1
Democratic Party (Iowa). State Central Committee 1
Des Moines Human Rights Commission 1
Des Moines Tutoring Center 1
Displaced Homemakers Network 1
Doderer, Minnette, 1923-2005 1
Donovan, Vergene (1924-) 1
Door Opener (Mason City, Iowa) 1
Dubuque Human Rights Commission (Dubuque, Iowa) 1
Dubuque Packing Company 1
Estes, Simon 1
Everett family 1
Everett, Beverly, 1926-2001 1
Falvey, Lawrence A., 1901-1957 1
Florida Women's Consortium 1
Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006 1
Frederick County Human Relations Commission (Frederick County, Iowa) 1
Furgerson, Betty Jean, 1927- 1
Garrity, Margaret 1
Garrity-Sandage Associates, Inc. 1
Geadelmann, Patricia L. 1
Goldman, Louise, 1924-1998 1
Grefe, Mary 1
Hamilton, Carter 1
Hamilton, Ruth, 1898-2008 1
Hammond, Johnie (1932-) 1
Hannon, Beverly A., 1932- 1
Hansen, Robert 1
Harper, Patricia (1932-) 1
Harris, Briana 1
Harris, Larry 1
Harvat, Emma, 1870-1949 1
Hawkeye Area Community Action Program 1
Health Planning Council of Central Iowa 1
Hoover Health Council (Iowa) 1
International Conference of Girl Scouts/Guides (1965 : Acapulco, Mexico) 1
International Women's Year, 1975 1