Draft:Women legislators in Mississippi

Women who served as state legislators in Mississippi include:


 * Belle Kearney was elected to the Senate in 1922.
 * Mildred Alexander (Mrs. Paul C. Cato)
 * Margaret Allen
 * Anne Virginia Barclift (Mrs. Charles Folson)
 * Georgia Roberta Mauldin Bennett
 * Annie Bonds
 * Mabel Wilson Bruce
 * Matilda "Tillie" Floyd Tann Clark
 * Pauline Alston Clark (Mrs. Walter Clark)
 * Willie Mae Dunaway (Mrs. Norman Adams)
 * Orene Farese (1956-1958)
 * Thelma W. Farr (Mrs. James Edward Baxter)
 * Madge Quin Fugler, represented Pike County, Mississippi from 1932-1936 in the Mississippi House of Representatives.
 * Edythe Evelyn Gandy, served as Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1976 to 1980
 * Mary Lou Godbold (Mrs. Tillman H. Godbold)
 * Lovie Landrum Gore (1952-1960)
 * Otelia Hammond
 * Ella Duke Harris (Mrs. L. G. Dean)
 * Lucy R. Somerville Howorth
 * Carrie Belle Kearney
 * Betty Jane Long
 * Helen Jacobs McDade
 * Mary Magruder McGehee
 * Zilpha Ellis Mansell /Zilpha Huber (Mrs. Charlie Mansell then Mrs. Harry Huber),
 * Jean Denman Muirhead
 * Mary Mildred Jeffries Nail (Miss Tumpsie)
 * Kathleen Michael O'Fallon
 * Alice Clayton Snider Phillips
 * Zelma Wells Price
 * Jessie Lee Reese
 * Minnie Lou Robinson (Mrs. John Bole Robinson)
 * Gladys Miller Slayden
 * Wilma Bobo Sledge (Wilma Bobo Sledge Maxey)
 * Nellie Nugent Somerville, first woman to serve in Mississippi's legislature
 * Dovie Pearl High Stansel, succeeded her husband Horace Stansel
 * Louise Steadman
 * Mary Ann Stevens
 * Mary Frances Terry
 * Mildred Spurrier Topp
 * Mynelle McClurg Vaiden, wife of state rep. and member of prominent family
 * Berta Lee White
 * Martha Carole White
 * Neita Winn McCargo (1946-1948)
 * Ellen Sullivan Woodward
 * Barbara Yancy.
 * Willie Mae Dunaway (1951-1952), succeeded her deceased husband Hezzie Dunaway?
 * Otelia Hammond (1961-1964) Otelia Bracey Hammond. Appears to have succeeded her husband Kelly J. Hammond after his death
 * Louise Steadman (1966-1968)