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This is a chronological list of transgender officeholders by office. The first transgender public officeholder in the United States was Joanne Marie Conte, elected to Arvada, Colorado's City Council in 1991. The highest officeholders are currently Sarah McBride of the Delaware State Senate and Danica Roem of the Virginia State Senate.

Background[edit]

As of 2021, 77 transgender, non-binary, intersex, and genderqueer officials served in public elected positions.[1] This represented a nearly fivefold increase from 2018, when only 16 openly transgender individuals had been elected to office in the United States.[2] On November 7, 2017, eight transgender individuals were elected to public office. This is the most transgender individuals elected to office in a single day.[3]

State offices[edit]

Legislative[edit]

Image Name
(lifespan) 		Party State Office held Tenure Notes
Althea Garrison
(born 1940)

Republican***

 Massachusetts Massachusetts House of Representatives, 5th Suffolk district* 1993–1995 Garrison is the first transgender person to serve in a state legislature, but she was not openly transgender when first elected in 1992. She was later outed while in office.[4] Garrison later served in the Boston City Council by appointment to fill a vacancy in 2018.[5]
Stacie-Marie Laughton
(born c. 1984) 		Democratic  New Hampshire New Hampshire House of Representatives, Ward 4** elected 2012 Though Laughton was the first openly transgender person elected to a state legislature in 2012, she was forced to resign prior to inauguration after past felonies became public.[6]
New Hampshire House of Representatives, District 31 2020-2022 She ran again and won in 2020,[7] and won her reelection in 2022, but she ultimately resigned in December 2022 after being arrested for stalking.[8] She has since been arrested again, this time for felony distribution of child sexual abuse images.[9]
Alisson Turcotte Democratic  New Hampshire New Hampshire House of Representatives, 11th Merrimack district (formerly 22nd Merrimack)* 2012-present Came out as transgender after her most recent re-election (2022).[10]
Danica Roem, United States Danica Roem
(born 1984) 		Democratic  Virginia Virginia Senate, 30th district 2024 - present First openly transgender person to be elected and served in a state legislature in 2017; first transgender state senator elected in the Southern United States in 2023; first openly transgender person to serve in both houses of a state legislature in 2024.[11][12]
Virginia House of Delegates, 13th district 2018-2024
Brianna Titone Democratic  Colorado Colorado House of Representatives, 27th district 2019-present [13]
Gerri Cannon Democratic  New Hampshire New Hampshire House of Representatives, Strafford 18th district (now 12th district) 2018-present [14][15]
Lisa Bunker
 Democratic  New Hampshire New Hampshire House of Representatives, Rockingham 18th District 2018-present [14]
Sarah McBride
(born 1990) 		Democratic  Delaware Delaware Senate 2021–present First transgender member of a state Senate, elected in November 2020.[16][17]
Stephanie Byers
(born 1963) 		Democratic  Kansas Kansas House of Representatives, 86th district 2021-2023 The first openly trans woman of color[18] to serve in and to be elected to a state legislature and the first Native American trans person to hold elected office in the United States.[19][20]
Taylor Small
(born 1994) 		Democratic, Progressive  Vermont Vermont House of Representatives, Chittenden 6–7 district (now Chittenden-21) 2021-present [21]
Mauree Turner
(born c. 1992) 		Democratic  Oklahoma Oklahoma State House of Representatives, district 88 2021-present The first non-binary state legislator and the only current transgender state legislator of color.[22]
Zooey Zephyr
(born 1988) 		Democratic  Montana Montana House of Representatives, district 100 2023-present She is the first openly transgender elected official in the Montana Legislature.[23][24]
Leigh Finke Democratic (DFL)  Minnesota Minnesota House of Representatives, District 66A 2023-present [25]

*Not openly transgender when elected
**Elected but did not serve the term for which they were elected
***Served this term under stated party affiliation but has been a member of different parties over their career

Other state offices[edit]

Image Name
(lifespan) 		Party State Office Held Tenure Notes
Kim Coco Iwamoto
(born 1968) 		Nonpartisan office  Hawaii Hawai’i Board of Education 2006-2011 [26]
Lauren Scott Appointed position  Nevada Commissioner, Nevada Equal Rights Commission 2012-present Scott was also the first transgender person to win a Republican primary election for a state legislative office, running for the Nevada Assembly's 30th District in 2014.[27]

Local offices[edit]

Executive[edit]

Image Name Party Locality Office(s) Held Tenure Notes
Stu Rasmussen
(1948 – 2021) 		Nonpartisan office Silverton, Oregon Mayor 2009-2015 First transgender mayor in the United States.[28] She had served as mayor of Willamette Valley in the 1990s, before coming out as transgender.[29] She was also three times a member of the city council.[30]
Jess Herbst
 Nonpartisan office New Hope, Texas Mayor* 2016-2018 Herbst became the first openly transgender mayor in Texas in 2016 when the then-mayor died days before the election, but still won. Herbst, who was Mayor pro-tem, was then appointed to the position. She came out as transgender after being appointed to the office.[31][32]
Betsy Driver
(born 1964) 		Democratic Flemington, New Jersey Mayor 2019-2023 She is the first openly intersex person elected mayor in the United States.[33] Also was the first intersex person elected to any political office when elected to town council in 2017.[34]
Lisa Middleton
(born 1952) 		Democratic Palm Springs, California Mayor 2021-2022 [35]

*Served by appointment, not elected.

Legislative[edit]

Image Name Party, if known Locality Office(s) Held Tenure Notes
Joanne Marie Conte
(1933-2013) 		None Arvada, Colorado City Council* 1991-1995 Conte is considered the first openly transgender person elected to public office in the United States.[36][37]
Michelle Bruce Riverdale, Georgia City Council* 2004-2008 Bruce was sued by her political opponents for fraud because she allegedly misled voters concerning her gender. The Georgia Supreme Court ruled in favor of Bruce.[38][39]
Claire Elizabeth Hall
(born 1959) 		None Lincoln County, Oregon County Commissioner* 2004-present Hall transitioned in June 2018 during her fourth term as commissioner and was since re-elected in 2020.[40][41]
Jessica Orsini Centralia, Missouri Alderwoman 2006-2010 [42][43]
Vered Meltzer Appleton, Wisconsin City Council, District 2 2014-present [44][45]
Aime Wichtendahl Democratic Hiawatha, Iowa City Council 2016-present The first openly trans woman elected to government in Iowa.[46] Re-elected in 2019.[47]
Betsy Driver
(born 1964) 		Democratic Flemington, New Jersey Town Council 2017-2019 First intersex person elected to public office in the U.S. Also served as mayor of Flemington, 2019-2023.[48]
Phillipe Cunningham Democratic (DFL) Minneapolis, Minnesota City Council, Ward 4 2018-2022 First openly trans man of color to be elected to office.[49]
Andrea Jenkins
(born 1961) 		Democratic (DFL) Minneapolis, Minnesota City Council Council member, Ward 8 (2018-present)
Council President (2022-2024) 		Became the first openly transgender black woman to be elected to office in 2017.[50]
Stephe Koontz Doraville, Georgia City Council, 3rd District 2018-present First openly transgender person elected in Georgia[51][52]
Lisa Middleton
(born 1952) 		Palm Springs, California City Council (member at-large, 2017-2020;
5th district, 2020-present) 		2017-present Also served as mayor of Palm Springs in 2021.
Althea Garrison
(born 1940) 		Independent Boston, Massachusetts Boston City Council, member at-large** 2019-2020 Appointed as the at-large representative when Ayanna Pressley was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018. She had previously served in the Massachusetts House in the 1990s.
Ottersten
None[53] Fairbanks, Alaska City Council, Seat D 2019-2020 Ottersten was the first openly intersex person elected in Alaska.[54][55]
Liz Lyke Fairbanks North Star Borough Borough Assembly 2020-2024 [54]
Veronica Pejril Greencastle, Indiana Common Council 2020-2024 The first openly transgender elected official in Indiana.[56] Currently running for Indiana State Senate, District 24.[57]
Donna Price Democratic Albemarle County, Virginia Board of Supervisors, Scottsville Magisterial District Vice-chair, 2020-2024
Chair, 2024-present 		The first transgender supervisor and second elected public official in the State. Elected November 2019.[58][59]
Rosemary Ketchum
(born c. 1993) 		Democratic Wheeling, West Virginia City Council 2020-present The first out trans person to be elected to public office in West Virginia, elected in June 2020.[60]
Christopher Kalcich (born c. 2002) Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania Borough Council 2021-present The first transgender elected official in Snyder County and Central Pennsylvania.[61][62]
Ashley Shade North Adams, Massachusetts City Council, at-large 2022-present [63]
Clare Killman Carbondale, Illinois City Council 2023-present Killman is the first transgender city council member in the state of Illinois.[64]
Olivia Hill Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee Metropolitan Council 2023-present Hill is the first transgender elected official in Tennessee.

[65]

Dina Nina Martinez-Rutherford None Madison, Wisconsin Common Council 2023-present The first openly transgender woman elected in Wisconsin.[66][67]

*Came out or outed as transgender after being elected.
**Appointed to the role, not elected

Judicial[edit]

Boards and commissions[edit]

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Amanda Simpson
  • Amanda Simpson, Commissioner of the City of Tucson Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Commission – 2001. Later Simpson was elected or appointed to many different positions from Precinct Committee up to serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Operational Energy from 2015 until January 2017.[69][70]
  • Jordan Evans, Board of Trustees of the Public Library for Charlton, Massachusetts – 2016.[71]
  • Jay Irwin, School Board Member of Ralston, Nebraska. First openly trans man to be elected to office – 2016.[72]
  • Gerri Cannon, member of the Somersworth, New Hampshire School Board, elected 2017.
  • Brandy Fortson (non-binary), member of the Corvallis, Oregon School Board, elected 2019[73]
  • Monika Nemeth, Neighborhood Commissioner, Washington D.C. Advisory Neighborhood Commission, 3F06, elected 2018 – first trans person to hold public office in Washington, D.C.[74]
  • Hayden Gise, Elected Neighborhood Commissioner, Washington D.C. Advisory Neighborhood Commission, 3C01 in 2022 – Second Trans person to hold public office in Washington, D.C.[75]
  • Rebecca Blankenship, member of the Berea, Kentucky Community School Board elected in 2022. She is the first openly transgender elected official in Kentucky.[76]

Other elected positions[edit]

Neighborhood organizations[edit]

Party offices[edit]

  • Barbra Casbar Siperstein, Member of the Democratic National Committee, New Jersey – 2012.[78]
  • Boudicca Walsh, elected chair of the Thurston County Democrats in 2017.[79]
  • Michelle Risher, elected chair of the Democratic Party of Oregon's Stonewall (LGBTQ+) Caucus in 2017. (DPO)[80]
  • Traci Baker, elected secretary of the Libertarian Party of Oklahoma in 2018. She is the first transgender person elected in Oklahoma and first openly transgender person to be elected as a state-level executive for a recognized political party in the United States[81]
  • Pluto Brand, Chair of the Indiana Green Party, elected 2018. Brand is the first transgender and intersex person to be elected to a party office in the State of Indiana[82]
  • Venn Sage Wylde, a non-binary person, was elected as a Precinct Committee member for Multnomah County, Oregon in 2018.[83][84]
  • Émilia Decaudin, the first openly transgender member of the New York State Democratic Committee. She was elected to this position in September 2018, before later coming out as transgender in August 2019. She was later elected as one of two of the first openly transgender Democratic district leaders in New York State.[85]
  • Brianna Westbrook was elected vice-chair of the Democratic Party of Arizona in 2019. She is the first transgender person to be elected a vice-chair of a state Democratic Party.[86]
  • Michelle Risher, first vice-chair of the Democratic Party of Oregon, 2019, is the first transgender person to be elected a first, senior, or second vice-chair of a state or territorial Democratic party and to be next in the line of succession to the party chair.[80]
  • Ashley Shade, Treasurer of the Massachusetts Libertarian Party, 2019. She is the first transgender person to be elected treasurer of a Libertarian State Party and first elected Transgender State Party Officer in Massachusetts. Elected July 14, 2019.[87]
  • Honey Mahogany, elected the 3rd Vice Chair of the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee, 17th District, the first black trans person elected in California, 2020.[88]
  • Pluto Brand, elected to State Chair of the Indiana Green Party in 2020. First Trans/Intersex person to be the leader of a state political party in the State of Indiana. In 2018, Brand was elected vice-chair of the Indiana Green Party.[82] Later elected to State Chair of the Indiana Green Party, 2022. First Trans/Intersex person to be the leader of a State Political Party in the State of Indiana.[89]
  • Émilia Decaudin, elected Democratic District Leader for New York's 37th State Assembly District on June 23, 2020. She and Melissa Sklarz are the first openly transgender district leaders in New York State. She had also been serving on the New York State Democratic Committee since 2018, and was that body's first transgender member upon coming out.[85]
  • Melissa Sklarz, Elected Democratic District Leader for New York's 30th State Assembly District on June 23, 2020.[85]
  • Blaizen Bloom, Elected as the press-secretary of the Green Party of Virginia on August 8, 2020. (non-binary/gender fluid)[90] Elected to Non-Male Cochair of the Green Party of Virginia on April 5, 2021. (non-binary and gender fluid)[91]
  • Michelle Risher, elected to the Democratic National Committee by the Democratic Party of Oregon's state central committee in 2020. Risher is only the second transgender Democrat elected to the DNC and the first to be their state party's only elected female DNC member.[80]
  • Ashley Shade, chair of the Massachusetts Libertarian Party. She is the first transgender person to be elected Chair of a State Party in Massachusetts. Elected March 20, 2021.[87]
  • Rachel Nyx, Vice Chair of the Libertarian Party of California. She is the first openly transgender person to be elected Vice Chair of a State Party in California. Elected May 16, 2021.[92]

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