Dianne Feinstein

Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein (born June 22, 1933) is the senior U.S. Senator from California and a member of the Democratic Party. Feinstein was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992, after serving as Mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988. Feinstein holds a number of "firsts": She... Read More

Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein (born June 22, 1933) is the senior U.S. Senator from California and a member of the Democratic Party. Feinstein was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992, after serving as Mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988.
Feinstein holds a number of "firsts": She was the first female President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, San Francisco's first (and as of 2009, only) female mayor, the first woman to serve in the Senate from California, one of two female Jewish senators (the other being Barbara Boxer), the first woman to serve on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the first woman to chair the Senate Rules Committee and Senate Intelligence Committee. Feinstein was also the first woman to preside over a U.S. presidential inauguration. She chaired the United States Congress Joint Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, and acted as master of ceremonies at the 2009 presidential inauguration. See Less