91. -- The city hired the first black woman city manager, former Dayton City Manager Valerie Lemmie, who began her new job Tuesday. 92. A businesswoman and an administrator are becoming the first women to hold two key posts overseeing the University of Massachusetts and the state colleges. 93. A forester by training, Ms. Beattie was the first woman to head the agency. 94. A Democratic representative, Yvonne Brathwaite Burke of Los Angeles, was the first woman to have a baby while in Congress. 95. A decade ago, when she was at Louisiana State University, she was the first woman to be chief of cardiac surgery at an American medical school. 96. A forester by training, Beattie was the first woman to head the Fish and Wildlife Service. 97. A former president of the Bosnia Serb republic has become the first woman indicted for atrocities committed during the ethnic slaughter that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia. 98. A graduate of Harvard and a singer, Sterling became the first African-American woman to hold the job. 99. A few years later the Blondes and Brunettes entertained the crowds with bad baseball and basketball-like scores as they became the first women to play for pay. 100. A look at the private life of the first black woman from the South elected to Congress explores the forces that shaped her moral character and dignity. |