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Government, Appointees
c. 1600s Sarah Kiersted, 17th century, a 1936 painting of Kiersted with Chief Oratam.
1920 Jury of Women, Newark, 1920.
1943 Ruth Cheney Streeter (1895-1990), the first director of the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve, in military uniform, 1943.
1962 Marie Hilson Katzenbach, (1882-1970), an advocate for education in New Jersey.
1981 Jane Grey Burgio, 1981, New Jersey's first female secretary of state.
1995 Hon. Marie L. Garibaldi (1934-), the first woman to serve as a New Jersey Supreme Court Judge.
Oscar-winning actress Celeste Holm (1919- ) has had a long and productive career in theatre motion pictures and television.