She was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1987 general election as member for the constituency of Maidstone ( which became Maidstone and The Weald in 1997 ).

She also was a great-grandniece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer who believed he had discovered the supposed canals of Mars, and a great-grandniece of art expert Bernard Berenson ( 1865 – 1959 ) and his sister Senda Berenson ( 1868 – 1954 ), an athlete and educator who was one of the first two women elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

She elected to work under the advice and management of her third husband, Marty Melcher, whom she married in Burbank on April 3, 1951.

She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.

She was elected to the Office of State Attorney in November 1978 and was returned to office by the voters four more times.

She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1948.

She defeated Fianna Fáil's Brian Lenihan and Fine Gael's Austin Currie in the 1990 presidential election becoming, as an Independent candidate nominated by the Labour Party, the Workers ' Party and independent senators, the first elected president in the office's history not to have had the support of Fianna Fáil.

She attained fame as the first African-American woman appointed as a United States Federal judge, the first African-American woman elected to the New York State Senate and the first woman to serve as Manhattan borough president.

She was first elected to the City Council in 1975 as an at large member, she served on the council until 1982.

She was elected to the Helsinki City Council, a position she held continuously for five terms from 1977 to 1996.

She remained extremely popular among many ANC supporters, and, in December 1993 and April 1997, she was elected president of the ANC Women's League, though she withdrew her candidacy for ANC Deputy President at the movement's Mafikeng conference in December 1997.

She attended Oakland High School, where she was elected vice president of her senior class ; she graduated with exemplary grades in May 1896.

She was elected May Queen in 1924.

She was elected to membership in the honor society of Phi Beta Kappa.

She dismissed the possibility that other countries might try to seize her territories and immediately started ensuring the imperial dignity for herself ; since a woman could not be elected Holy Roman Empress, Maria Theresa wanted to secure the imperial office for her husband.

She was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

She was the first woman to be elected governor of a US state.

She was elected to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly in a shock by-election win in 1995.

She was recognized amongst the best in the field, awarded prestigious fellowships, and elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1944.

She was then elected President on fifteenth December 1997 for the PPP.

She was then elected to the House of Commons in 1972, whereafter she served as a minister of the Crown until 1980, when she became the Speaker of the House of Commons.

Helen Timmons Henderson ( 1877 – 1925 ) helped participate in the work of the Buchanan Mission School at Council, Va. She and Sarah Lee Fain ( 1888 – 1962 ) of Norfolk became the first two women to be elected into the Virginia General Assembly.

She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007.

She was elected on November 7, 2006 as the first woman sheriff of Benton County and the first elected female sheriff in Oregon.

She learns how to relax them to accept -- instead of contracting them to repel -- the entering object.

She came to New York from Detroit as a teenager, but with a `` sponsor '' instead of a chaperone.

She excluded her young son from power, entrusting it instead to Alexios the prōtosebastos ( a cousin of Alexios II ), who was popularly believed to be her lover.

" She has also rejected an immigrant designation for African-Americans and instead prefers the term " black " or " white " to denote the African and European U. S. founding populations.

She considered the name " Peabodyville ", but " Albion " was selected instead, after the former residence of Jesse Crowell.

She is unpopular among peers and disliked by teachers for asking " why " instead of " how " and focusing on nature rather than on technology.

She briefly develops a psychic shadow form like Psylocke's, with a gold Phoenix emblem over her eye instead of the Crimson Dawn mark possessed by Psylocke, Jean briefly lost her telekinesis to Psylocke during this exchange, but her telekinetic abilities later came back in full at a far stronger level than before.

She looks at herself instead of looking at you, and so doesn't know you.

She never played Desirée in the theater ; instead, she used the beautiful lyrics and melody to create a major pop hit.

She is credited with introducing the fork to Western Europe-chronographers mention the astonishment she caused when she " used a golden double prong to bring food to her mouth " instead of using her hands as was the norm.

She believes all that she reads instead of putting her mind to listing all the great deeds women have accomplished.

" She had received no anesthesia for the procedure and reportedly chose instead to bite down on a bullet, as she had seen Civil War soldiers do when their limbs were amputated.

She relied instead on a variety of lighting effects to reinforce mood ; actors seemed to come out of darkness and return to darkness.

She was given an English name, Ælfgifu, which was used instead of her Norman name on formal occasions or on charters.

She starred in a series of her own for 2007, Damages ( also on FX ) instead of continuing her character on The Shield.

She wished instead for the rest of the royal family to accompany her.

She was now officially Queen Mother, though she did not use that title and was instead known as Her Majesty Queen Mary.

She argued instead for an ' eyes on the street ' approach to town planning, and the resurrection of main public space precedents, such as streets and squares, in the design of cities.

She sparked the interest of Steven Spielberg, who offered her several parts including a role in Jurassic Park which she declined, choosing instead to join Krzysztof Kieślowski on the set of Three Colors: Blue ( 1993 ), a performance for which she won the Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actress and a César.

She fought for 12 years and gained high merit, but she refused any reward and retired to her hometown instead.

She hypothesized that " eh " did not function as a clarification device as frequently believed, but instead served as a means of establishing solidarity between individuals of similar ethnic descent.

She was forced to wear ship instead of tack and the leading Spanish vessel came close enough to threaten her with a broadside.

She even asked Joseph Stalin directly why he had slaughtered so many Russians, but many of her criticisms were translated into innocuous statements instead, leading many of her conservative supporters to fear she had " gone soft " on Communism.

She moved to the United States as a teenager, first studying to become a stockbroker, but after taking some abandoned kittens to a shelter in 1969, and appalled by the conditions she found there, she chose a career in animal protection instead.

She was not interested at first and instead asked to have her short stories collected.