Eleanor Award: Honoring Marian Wright Edelman | NWF Events

On This Day - 2025-08-29 : 1989: Cuban immigrant Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is the first Hispanic woman elected to Congress, later becoming the first woman to chair the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

On This Day - 2025-08-29 : 1989: Cuban immigrant Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is the first Hispanic woman elected to Congress, later becoming the first woman to chair the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Eleanor Award: Honoring Marian Wright Edelman - September 20th, 2022

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