Muriel Elizabeth Bowser (born August 2, 1972) is an American politician serving as the eighth Mayor of the District of Columbia since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously represented Ward 4 as a member of the Council of the District of Columbia from 2007 to 2015. She is the second female Mayor of the District of Columbia after Sharon Pratt, and the first woman to be reelected to that position.
Lesbian joins historic all-woman slate of D.C. electors
D.C. statehood advocate Barbara Helmick, an out lesbian and Democratic Party activist, cast separate votes on Monday, Dec. 14, for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for president and vice president as part of D.C.’s first-ever all-woman slate of presidential electors.
Helmick and fellow Democrats and community activists Meedie Bardonille and Jacqueline Constance Echavarria each cast their ballots for Biden and Harris as one of the three presidential electors allocated to D.C.
in presidential elections as part of the Electoral College. The voting took place in a ceremony at the city’s Walter Washington Convention Center.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser presided over the ceremony and the voting. “This is the first time in D.C. history that we have had
