Francesca Hong is a professional chef and restaurant owner, as well as Wisconsin’s first Asian American state legislator.

Peg Lautenschlager was the first female district attorney for Winnebago County, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, and the first female Attorney General of Wisconsin.

Kathryn "Kate" Morrison was the first woman elected to the Wisconsin State Senate.

Barbara Lawton, forty-third lieutenant governor of Wisconsin, was the first woman to be elected to that position.

Jessie Jack Hooper, a suffragist, was president of the Wisconsin League of Women Voters and also ran for the U.S. Senate in 1922.