An Evening With U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, 6 p.m., Monday, December 6, 2004, LBJ Auditorium
American Heroines: The Spirited Women Who Shaped Our Country
Senator Hutchison presents female pioneers in fields as varied as government, business, education, and healthcare who overcame the resistance and prejudice of their times and accomplished things that no woman—and sometimes no man – had done before.
Interspersed with the stories of America's historic female leaders are stories of today's women whose successes are clearly linked to those predecessors. Would Sally Ride have been given the chance to orbit the earth had Amelia Earhart not flown solo across the Atlantic Ocean fifty years before? Had Clara Barton not nursed wounded soldiers on Civil War battlefields, aid may not have reached the millions it did while the Red Cross was in the hands of women like Elizabeth Dole and Bernadine Healy.
A pioneer in her own right, Senator Hutchison became the first woman elected to the United States Senate from the State of Texas. In 2000, she was elected Vice Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, becoming one of the top five leaders of Senate Republicans, and the only woman.
Senator Hutchison serves as a U.S. delegate to the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, commonly known as the Helsinki Commission. Before becoming a Senator, she was twice elected to the Texas House of Representatives as well as to the office of Texas State Treasurer.
The Senator serves on the Appropriations, Veterans Affairs, Commerce, Science and Transportation, and Rules and Administration committees.
The LBJ Museum Store will be selling copies of American Heroines. Sen. Hutchison will be signing copies of her book from 5:15 to 5:45 p.m. in the Lobby of the LBJ Auditorium prior to her address. A reception will follow.