Additionally, this program enables women to build relationships with other women from the local, state, and federal levels who serve in the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. Featuring many of America’s most prominent women political leaders, the program has established a reputation for high-quality speakers and participants.
Speakers have included U.S. Senators Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Dole, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Mary Landrieu and Blanche Lincoln, former governors Kathleen Blanco, Martha Layne Collins and Ann Richards, former Attorney General Janet Reno, former Secretaries of Labor Elaine Chao, Alexis Herman and Lynn Martin, civil rights pioneers Unita Blackwell and Myrlie Evers-Williams, and ABC News correspondent Cokie Roberts. Many of the women Members of Congress from the South have participated over the years, including Marsha Blackburn, Corinne Brown, Eva Clayton, Tillie Fowler, Kay Granger, Sheila Jackson Lee, Denise Majette, Carrie Meek, Sue Myrick, Anne Northup, and Debbie Wasserman Shult