[Trending] Firsts: 20+ Powerful Women Who Were First

There are so many women who are changing the world, testing their limits and making this planet a better, more united place. Time Magazine took it upon themselves to celebrate these strong individuals in their latest project “Firsts”.

“Firsts” is a special multimedia project that features 46 women who broke a variety of barriers and have been the first in their field to accomplish a major milestone. Some of the names are well known, for example, Hillary Clinton, who is the first woman to win a major party’s nomination for president; Oprah Winfrey, who is the first woman to own and produce her own her own talk show; and Aretha Franklin, who is the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The images were shot over the course of the year by a 22-year-old Brazilian photographer named Luisa Dörr using an iPhone.

Take a look at the portraits of women who tested and then broke boundaries that reshaped the world for decades to come below.

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Geisha Williams – First Latina CEO of a Fortune 500 company

Williams took over as CEO and president of PG&E Corp. on March 1, 2017.

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Selena Gomez – First person to reach 100 million followers on Instagram

Gomez rose to fame on the Disney Channel and is an actor and singer.

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Mae Jemison – First woman of color in space

Jemison, who holds degrees in engineering and medicine, went to space on the Endeavour in 1992.

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Eileen Collins – First woman to command a space shuttle

Collins became an astronaut in 1991 and served as a pilot or commander on four spaceflights before retiring from NASA in 2006.

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Alice Waters – First woman to win the James Beard Award for Outstanding Chef

Waters opened Chez Panisse in 1971 and started the Edible Schoolyard Project in 1995.

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Rachel Maddow – First openly gay anchor to host a prime-time news program

Maddow hosts the Emmy-winning Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC.

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Maya Lin – First woman to design a memorial on the National Mall

Lin won a public design competition for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial while she was an undergraduate student at Yale University.

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Nikki Haley – First Indian-American woman to be elected governor

Haley served as South Carolina’s governor from 2011 to 2017. She is the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

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Gabby Douglas – First American gymnast to win solo and team all-around gold medals at one Olympics

Douglas won three gold medals at the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games and helped Team USA win gold at the 2011 and 2015 world championships.

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Cindy Sherman – First woman to break $1 million in a photography sale

Sherman, who studied painting before turning to the camera, is known for her chameleon-like self-portraits.

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Carla Hayden – First woman and first African American to be Librarian of Congress

Hayden, who ran the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore and served as deputy commissioner and chief librarian of the Chicago Public Library system, was the first African American to receive Library Journal’s Librarian of the Year Award in 1995.

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Ann Dunwoody – First woman to rise to four-star general in the U.S. military

Dunwoody, who served nearly four decades in the U.S. military, rose to become a four-star general in 2008 and retired in 2012 as commander of the Army Materiel Command.

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Aretha Franklin – First woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Franklin has won 18 Grammy Awards. Watch Aretha Franklin’s performance of “Rock of Ages”.

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Ava DuVernay – First black woman to direct a film nominated for a Best Picture Oscar

DuVernay directed Selma, an Oscar nominee for Best Picture, and 13th, an Oscar nominee for Best Documentary Feature.

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Barbara Walters – First woman to co-anchor a network evening news program

After more than 50 years in journalism, Walters retired from her talk show, The View, in 2014.

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Katharine Jefferts Schori – First woman to be elected presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church

Jefferts Schori studied biology at Stanford University and has a Ph.D. in oceanography from Oregon State University.

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Hillary Clinton – First woman to win a major party’s nomination for President

Clinton, who has served as First Lady, Senator and Secretary of State, was the Democratic Party nominee for President in the 2016 election.

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Candis Cayne – First transgender woman with a major role on prime-time TV

Cayne, who started her career dancing in New York City, is known for her role on Dirty Sexy Money and her appearances on I Am Cait.

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Danica Patrick – First woman to lead in the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500

In 2013, Patrick became the first woman to win the pole position at the Daytona 500.

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Issa Rae – First black woman to create and star in a premium cable series

Rae is the author of The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl and stars on HBO’s Insecure, which she created.

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Elizabeth Blackburn – First woman to become president of the Salk Institute

Blackburn, president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies since 2016, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her DNA breakthroughs.

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Ellen DeGeneres – First person to star as an openly gay character on prime-time TV

DeGeneres, an Emmy-winning TV host and comedian, has hosted her eponymous talk show since 2003.

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Janet Yellen – First woman to chair the Federal Reserve

Yellen, formerly an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, is the chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve.

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Sylvia Earle – First woman to become chief scientist of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Earle is president and chair of Mission Blue, an organization that advocates for legal protection and conservation of the world’s oceans.

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Mazie Hirono – First Asian-American woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate

Hirono, who was born in Japan, was elected to Hawaii’s house of representatives in 1980 and later became the state’s lieutenant governor. She served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2007 to 2013 and has been a Senator since 2013.

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Ilhan Omar – First Somali-American Muslim person to become a legislator

Omar was elected on Nov. 8, 2016, to represent Minneapolis’ District 60B in the Minnesota house of representatives.

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Jennifer Yuh Nelson – First woman to solo-direct a major Hollywood animated feature

Nelson’s Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) is the second highest-grossing film directed by a woman, only recently surpassed by Wonder Woman (2017).

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Kathryn Smith – First woman to become a full-time coach in the NFL

Smith, who began her NFL career as a game-day intern with the New York Jets, left the Buffalo Bills in January 2017.

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Kellyanne Conway – First woman to run a winning presidential campaign

Conway founded her consulting firm, the Polling Company, in 1995 and became Trump’s final campaign manager in 2016. She is counselor to the President.

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Loretta Lynch – First black woman to become U.S. Attorney General

Lynch served as U.S. Attorney General from 2015 to 2017.

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Lori Robinson – First woman to lead a top-tier U.S. Combat Command

In 2016, Robinson became the highest-ranking woman in U.S. military history as leader of U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command.

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Madeleine Albright – First woman to become U.S. Secretary of State

Albright served as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. from 1993 to 1997 and U.S. Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001.

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Mary Barra – First woman to become CEO of a major car company

Barra joined General Motors when she was 18 and has been its CEO since 2014.

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Melinda Gates – First woman to give away more than $40 billion

Gates, who has degrees in computer science and economics as well as business administration, worked at Microsoft from 1987 to 1996. She is a co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Mo’ne Davis – First girl to pitch a shutout and win a game in a Little League World Series

The Monarchs finished the Little League World Series in 2014 with two wins. Davis, now 16, has turned her attention to basketball.

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Rita Moreno – First Latina to win an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony

Moreno is one of 12 people to have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony, known as an EGOT. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004.

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Kathryn Sullivan – First American woman to walk in space

After 15 years at NASA, Sullivan became chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and later administrator of the NOAA from 2014 to 2017.

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Oprah Winfrey – First woman to own and produce her own talk show

The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest-rated talk show in TV history, ran for 25 years.

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Patricia Bath – First person to invent and demonstrate laserphaco cataract surgery

Bath was the first female African-American doctor to patent a medical device, the Laserphaco Probe, in 1988.

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Nancy Pelosi – First woman to become Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

Pelosi, who represents California’s 12th Congressional District, has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1987. She was the Speaker from 2007 to 2011 and is now the minority leader.

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Michelle Phan – First woman to build a $500 million company from a web series

Phan launched the beauty subscription company Ipsy and the beauty brand EM Cosmetics.

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Rita Dove – First black U.S. poet laureate

Dove, who won the Pulitzer Prize for her poetry in 1987, served as U.S. poet laureate from 1993 to 1995.

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Sheryl Sandberg – First woman to become a social-media billionaire

Sandberg is the chief operating officer of Facebook and was the first woman named to the company’s board of directors. She founded the nonprofits Lean In and Option B.

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Serena Williams – First tennis player to win 23 Grand Slam singles titles in the open era

Williams, who has been playing professional tennis since 1995, has won 72 singles titles, 23 doubles titles and four Olympic gold medals.

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Shonda Rhimes – First woman to create three hit shows with more than 100 episodes each

Rhimes created Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice and Scandal, and is an executive producer of How to Get Away With Murder.

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Ursula Burns – First black woman to run a Fortune 500 company

Burns retired in 2017 as chair of Xerox, where she served as CEO from 2009 to 2016.

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