The November 21, 1955 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (Fairbanks, AK) ran a short piece with the predictions of Mrs. Ivy Baker Priest. She predicted that by the year 2000 there would be three female members of the Supreme Court and a lady vice president. Priest also predicted that half of congress would be female.
Sonia Sotomayor would be the third female Supreme Court justice in U.S. history, though there has never been more than two women on the court at one time. Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings are set to start July 13, 2009.
According to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, there are currently 441 members of the U.S. Congress that are male (83%) and 92 that are female (17%). For more information, check out the Women in Congress website.
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