List of the first LGBT holders of political offices in the United States.
As of 2016:
all 50 states have been served by openly LGBT elected politicians in some capacity;
43 states have elected openly LGBT politicians to one or both houses of their state legislature;
there has been one openly bisexual state governor;
one state governor has come out as gay;
no openly LGBT person has served as president or vice president of the United States, nor has an openly gay person ever served on the Supreme Court of the United States.
U.S. Representative (first out congressperson and Democrat): Gerry Studds (MA-12, MA-10) – served 1973–1997, outed 1983
U.S. Representative (first to voluntarily come out): Barney Frank (MA-4) – served 1980–2013, came out in 1987
U.S. Representative (first out Republican): Steve Gunderson (WI-3) – served 1981–1997, outed 1994
U.S. Senate (not out when first elected, first male U.S. Senator to come out): Harris Wofford – served 1991–1995, came out in 2016 after announcing plans to marry a man
U.S. Representative (first Republican to voluntarily come out): Jim Kolbe (AZ-5) – served 1985–2007, came out 1996
U.S. Representative (out when first elected, female): Tammy Baldwin (WI-2) – served 1999–2013
U.S. Representative (out when first elected, male): Jared Polis (CO-2) – served 2009–present
U.S. Representative (out when first elected), first openly bisexual member of Congress: Kyrsten Sinema (AZ-9) – elected 2012
U.S. Representative (out when first elected), first to succeed another openly-gay officeholder in office: Mark Pocan (WI-2) – elected 2012, succeeded Tammy Baldwin
U.S. Representative (out when first elected), first non-white openly gay member of Congress: Mark Takano (CA-41) – elected 2012
U.S. Congressional committee chair: Gerry Studds – chair of House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries 1990–1995
U.S. Senate (out when first elected, first openly LGBT U.S. Senator): Tammy Baldwin – elected 2012, lesbian, representing Wisconsin
Arizona
Rep. Jim Kolbe (R) – served 1985–2007; was outed in 1996 following his vote for the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act
Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D) – bisexual, elected 2012
California:
Rep. Michael Huffington (R) – served 1993–1995; came out as bisexual in 1998
Rep. Mark Takano (D) – elected 2012
Colorado:
Rep. Jared Polis (D) – elected 2008
Connecticut
Rep. Stewart McKinney (R) – served 1971–1987; died of AIDS in 1987 and was actively, though not openly, bisexual
Florida:
Rep. Mark Foley (R) – served 1995–2006, sexuality revealed by lawyer after resignation in 2006 due to sending explicit texts to a 16-year-old United States House of Representatives Page
Maine:
Rep. Mike Michaud (D) – served 2003–2015, came out as gay in 2013 while running for Governor of Maine.
Maryland:
Rep. Robert Bauman (R) – served 1973–1981; sexuality revealed after soliciting sex from a 16-year-old male prostitute
Massachusetts:
Rep. Gerry Studds (D) – served 1973–1997; came out involuntary in 1983 due to sexual relations with a 17-year-old United States House of Representatives Page (see 1983 congressional page sex scandal)
Rep. Barney Frank (D) – served 1980–2013; came out voluntarily in 1987 after Steve Gobie (a male prostitute who Frank had hired for sex, and who later became his friend, personal assistant, and housekeeper) tried to sell his story to The Washington Times
Mississippi
Rep. Jon Hinson (R) – served 1979–1981; sexuality revealed after he was arrested February 5, 1981, and charged with sodomy for performing oral sex on a male employee of the Library of Congress in a restroom of the House of Representatives, leading him to resign
New York:
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D) – elected 2012
Rhode Island:
Rep. David Cicilline (D) – elected 2010
Wisconsin:
Senator: Tammy Baldwin (female) (D) – elected 2012
Representative: Tammy Baldwin (female) (D) – served 1999–2013
Representative: Steve Gunderson (male) (R) – served 1981–1997; came out involuntarily 1994
Representative: Mark Pocan (D) – elected 2012; out when elected
First openly LGBT person appointed to a federal position requiring confirmation by the United States Senate: Roberta Achtenberg, as assistant secretary for fair housing and equal opportunity at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (1993) She later became a commissioner for the United States Commission on Civil Rights in 2011.
First openly LGBT Ambassador: James Hormel (served 1999–2001 in Luxembourg)
First openly LGBT United States Marshal: Sharon Lubinski (2009) – U.S. Marshal for the District of Minnesota
First openly LGBT United States Attorney: Jenny Durkan (2009) – U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington.
First openly LGBT commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: Chai Feldblum (2010)
First openly LGBT person in a cabinet-rank position: Fred Hochberg, deputy administrator, and then acting administrator of the Small Business Administration, which held cabinet-rank during the Clinton administration He later became Chairman and President of the Export-Import Bank in 2009.
Secretary of the Army: Eric Fanning – appointed 2016
First openly lesbian or gay candidate elected to a state legislature – Elaine Noble (D), Massachusetts House of Representatives; Elected in 1974, served two terms starting in January 1975, open when elected.
First openly gay president of a city council — Cathy Woolard, Atlanta City Council President from 2002–2004.
First openly gay state comptroller – Ed Flanagan (D), Vermont Auditor of Accounts; served four terms: first elected 1992, came out in 1995; was subsequently reelected.
First openly gay governor – Jim McGreevey (D), governor of New Jersey – came out 2004 (during the same speech in which he announced his resignation as governor).
First openly bisexual governor and first person to be openly LGBT at time of taking office – Kate Brown (D), governor of Oregon (ascended to office in 2015 after previous governor resigned).
Secretary of State: California: Tony Miller (male) (D) – appointed in 1994; lost election in 1994
State treasurer: Maine: Dale McCormick (D) – elected (by the legislature) 1996
State Corporation Commission: Oklahoma: Jim Roth (D) – appointed by Governor 2007, lost election for remainder of term in 2009
First openly gay attorney general – Maura Healey (D), Massachusetts, elected in 2014
State legislative leaders:
Presiding officer: Minnesota Sen. Allan H. Spear (D) – elected senate president 1993
Speaker: Rhode Island Rep. Gordon D. Fox (D) – elected speaker 2010
California:
House Speaker: Rep. John Pérez (D) (elected 2010)
Colorado:
House Speaker: Mark Ferrandino (D) (2012)
House Minority Leader: Mark Ferrandino (D) (2011)
Hawaii:
House Majority Leader: Rep. Blake Oshiro (D) (elected 2008, came out 2011)
Massachusetts:
Senate Minority Leader: Sen. Richard Tisei (R) (elected 2007, came out 2010)
Senate Majority Leader: Sen. Stan Rosenberg (D) (elected 2013, came out 2009)
Minnesota:
Senate President: Sen. Allan Spear (D) (1993)
Missouri:
Senate Minority Floor Leader: Sen. Jolie Justus (D) (2012)
Oregon:
House Speaker: Rep. Tina Kotek (D) – America's first openly lesbian House speaker (elected as Oregon's House speaker in 2012)
Rhode Island:
House Speaker: Rep. Gordon D. Fox (D) (2010)
Washington:
Senate Majority Leader: Sen. Ed Murray (D) (2012)
Wyoming:
House Minority Leader: Rep. Cathy Connolly (D) (2016)
The legislatures of 42 states have had at least one openly LGBT member; the first out person to serve in each of those states is listed here. The eight remaining states that have never had an openly LGBT state legislator are Alaska, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
Alabama:
Rep. Patricia Todd (D) – elected 2006
Arizona:
Kenneth D. Cheuvront (D) – served in both the Arizona House of Representatives and the Arizona Senate between 1994 and 2010
Arkansas:
Rep. Kathy Webb (D) – elected 2006
California:
Assemblywoman (later Sen.) Sheila Kuehl (D) – elected 1994 to House; elected to Senate in 2000 – California's first openly gay state legislator
The 2004 elections in California sent six openly LGBT people to the California State Legislature: four lesbians (Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg, Senator Sheila Kuehl, and Senator Carole Migden, Senator Christine Kehoe), and two gay men (Assemblyman Mark Leno and Assemblymen John Laird).
Rep. John Pérez (D) – first openly LGBT person to serve as speaker of the California State Assembly (appointed 2010) Pérez was succeeded as speaker by Assemblywoman Toni G. Atkins (D) (elected 2014), the second openly LGBT person (and the first lesbian) to hold the post.
Colorado General Assembly:
Rep. (later Sen.) Jennifer Veiga ((D) – Elected to the state House in 1996; became Colorado's first openly LGBT state legislature when she came out in 2002; subsequently reelected and served as House minority leader in 2003 (first LGBT person to hold this post); later elected to the state Senate.
Rep. Mark Ferrandino (D) – appointed October 2007, became first openly gay man to serve in the General Assembly. In 2012, Ferrandino became Colorado's first openly LGBT speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives.
Sen. Lucía Guzmán (D) (elected 2010) – first LGBT person to serve as president pro tem of the Colorado Senate
In 2012, the first major state race in which both major-party candidates were LGBT occurred when Pat Steadman (D) and Michael Carr (R) ran against each other in Colorado's 31st state Senate district.
Connecticut General Assembly:
Rep. Joseph S. Grabarz Jr (D) – Connecticut's first openly LGBT state legislator; first elected in 1988; came out in December 1990.
Rep. Evelyn Mantilla (D) – came out as America's first openly bisexual state official in 1997.
Delaware:
Sen. Karen E. Peterson (D) – came out 2013
Florida:
Rep. David Richardson (D) and Rep. Joe Saunders (D) – first openly gay Florida state legislators, both elected in 2012
Georgia:
Rep. Karla Drenner (female) (D) – elected 2000
Rep. Rashad Taylor (male) (D) – elected 2008, came out 2011
Hawaii:
Rep. Joe Bertram (male) (D) – elected 2006
Rep. Georgette Jo Jordan (female) (Dem) – appointed January 2011; elected November 2012
Rep. Blake Oshiro (D) – first House Majority Leader, came out 2010
Idaho:
Female: Rep. (later Sen.) Nicole LeFavour (D) – elected 2004
Male: Rep. John McCrostie (D) – elected 2014
Illinois:
Rep. Larry McKeon (male) (D) – elected 1996
Rep. Deb Mell (female) (D) – elected 2009
Iowa:
Male: Sen. Matt McCoy (D) – came out 2004
Female: Rep. Liz Bennett (D) - elected 2014
Norman Jesse and Dan Johnston, who were first elected to the state house in 1967, were not out during their careers in politics, but came out in retirement and revealed that they had been a couple.
Kentucky:
Sen. Ernesto Scorsone (D) – came out 2003
Maine:
Sen. Dale McCormick (D) – elected 1990
Maryland:
Del. Maggie McIntosh (female) (D) – came out 2001
Del. Richard Madaleno (male) (D) – elected 2002
Massachusetts:
Rep. Elaine Noble (female) (D) – elected 1974
Rep. (later Sen.) Jarrett Barrios (male) (D) – elected to House 1999, elected to Senate 2003
Rep. Althea Garrison (R) – elected 1993, first transgender person elected to a state legislature in the United States.
Sen. Cheryl Jacques (D) – elected 1993
Michigan:
Rep. Chris Kolb – elected 2000
Minnesota:
Sen. Allan Spear (male) (D) – elected 1972, came out December 1974
Rep. Karen Clark (female) (D) – elected 1981, out when first elected
Sen. Paul Koering (male) (R) – elected 2002; "came out" 2005; re-elected in 2006
Missouri:
Rep. Tim Van Zandt (male) (D) – elected 1994
Rep. Jeanette Oxford (female) (D) – elected 2004
Rep. Zachary Wyatt (male) (R) – elected 2010; came out 2012
Sen. Jolie Justus (female) (D) – elected 2007
Montana:
Rep. Diane Sands (female) (D) – appointed 1996
Rep. Bryce Bennett (male) (D) – elected 2010
Nevada:
Assemblyman (now Sen.) David Parks (D) (male) – elected 1996
Senator Patricia Spearman (female) (D) – elected 2012
New Hampshire:
Rep. Raymond Buckley (male) (D) – elected 1986
Rep. Marlene DeChane (female) (D) – elected 1994
Sen. David Pierce (D) – elected 2012
Chris Pappas (D) – elected 2012, first LGBT person ever elected to the New Hampshire Executive Council
New Jersey:
Assemblyman Reed Gusciora (D) – came out 2006
New Mexico:
Sen. Liz Stefanics (female) (D) – elected 1992
Sen. Jacob Candelaria (male) (D) – elected 2012
New York:
Rep. Deborah Glick (female) (D) – elected 1990
Sen. Thomas Duane (male) (D) – elected 1998
Rep. Micah Kellner (male; bisexual) (D) – elected 2007
North Carolina:
Sen. Julia Boseman (D) – elected 2004
Rep. Marcus Brandon (male) (D) – elected 2010
North Dakota:
Rep. Joshua Boschee (D) – elected 2012
Ohio:
Rep. Nickie Antonio (D) – elected 2010
Rep. Tim Brown (R) – elected 2012
Oklahoma:
Rep. (now Sen.) Al McAffrey (male) (D) – elected 2006; elected first state senator 2012
Rep. Kay Floyd (female) (D) – elected 2012
Oregon:
Rep. Gail Shibley (female) D) – appointed 1991; elected 1992
Rep. George Eighmey (male) (D) – appointed 1993; elected 1994
Sen. Kate Brown (female/bisexual) (D) – elected 1996
Rep. Tina Kotek (female) (D) – elected 2006; current Speaker of the House
Pennsylvania:
Rep. Mike Fleck (R) – elected 2007, came out 2012
Rep. Brian Sims (D) – elected (while out) 2012
Sen. Jim Ferlo (D) – came out 2014
Rhode Island:
Sen. William P. Fitzpatrick (male) (D) – elected 1992, ran as openly gay; statewide publicity after election
Rep. Mike Pisaturo (male) (D) – elected 1996
Rep. Nancy Hetherington (female) (D) – elected 1994 but "came out" in 2001
Sen. Donna Nesselbush (female) (D) – elected 2010
South Dakota:
Sen. Angie Buhl (D) (bisexual) – elected 2011, came out 2012
Texas:
Rep. Glen Maxey (male) (D) – elected 1991
Rep. Mary Gonzalez (female) (D) – elected 2012; first openly pansexual elected official in the United States
Utah:
Rep. Jackie Biskupski (female) (D) – elected 1998
Sen. Scott McCoy (male) (D) – elected 2005
Vermont:
Rep. Ron Squires (D) – elected 1990
Rep. Suzi Wizowaty (female) (D) – elected 2008
Sen. Ed Flanagan (male) (D) – elected 2005
Virginia:
Del. (now Sen.) Adam Ebbin (D) – elected 2003; elected first state senator 2011
Washington State:
Rep. (later Sen.) Cal Anderson (D) – appointed 1987
Rep. Laurie Jinkins (female) (D) – elected 2010
West Virginia:
Rep. Stephen Skinner (D) – elected 2012
Wisconsin:
Rep. (later Sen.) Tim Carpenter (male) (D) – elected to Assembly in 1984, came out in 2001, elected to Senate in 2002
Rep. (later U.S. Rep) Mark Pocan (male) (D) – elected 1998
Rep. (later U.S. Sen.) Tammy Baldwin (female; lesbian) (D) – elected 1993
Rep. JoCasta Zamarripa (female; bisexual) (D) – elected 2010; came out 2012
Wyoming:
Rep. Cathy Connolly (D) – elected 2008
Guam:
Sen. Benjamin Cruz (D) – elected 2008
First mayor of a U.S. state capital: David Cicilline, Providence, Rhode Island (2002)
First directly elected openly gay mayor in the U.S.: Neil Giuliano, Tempe, AZ (1998)
Largest city (in the country) with a lesbian mayor: Annise Parker, Houston, Texas (2009)
Largest city with a gay male mayor: Ed Murray, Seattle, Washington (2014)
First openly gay president of a city council — Cathy Woolard, Atlanta City Council President from 2002–2004.
First transgender mayor: Stu Rasmussen, Silverton, Oregon (2008)
First openly LGBT members of a city council: Nancy Wechsler and Jerry DeGrieck, both elected as members of the Human Rights Party to the Ann Arbor City Council in 1972; both came out in 1973.
First openly gay person (male or female) elected to public office (city council): Kathy Kozachenko, Ann Arbor, Michigan (1974)
First openly gay man elected to a U.S. city council (incumbent): Jim Yeadon, Madison, Wisconsin (1977)
First openly gay man non-incumbent elected in the United States (and first openly gay person elected to public office in California) – Harvey Milk, member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors; elected 1976, assassinated in 1978 by Dan White (who also killed Mayor George Moscone).
First openly gay black person elected to public office in the United States: Keith St. John, elected to Albany, New York common council in 1989.
First openly gay Hispanic person elected to public office in the United States: Ricardo Gonzalez (Madison, Wisconsin)
First openly transgender member of a city council: Joanne Conte (Arvada, Colorado) – trans woman, served on Arvada City Council from 1991 to 1995.
First openly bisexual member of a city council: Marlene Pray, joined Doylestown, Pennsylvania, council in 2012, resigned 2013 (also first openly bisexual office holder in Pennsylvania).
City Council Speaker: Christine Quinn (elected 2006)
Arizona
Tempe
Mayor: Neil Giuliano, 1994–2004
California
Robert F. Gentry was elected mayor of Laguna Beach, in 1982, becoming the first openly gay mayor in California and the first openly gay elected official in southern California.
John Laird was elected mayor of Santa Cruz in 1983.
Ron Oden was elected mayor of Palm Springs in 2003; he became the first openly gay black man elected mayor of an American city and was the first openly gay mayor of Palm Springs.
Mike Gin was elected mayor of Redondo Beach in 2005, becoming the first openly gay Asian American mayor elected in the USA and the first Republican gay mayor elected in California.
Christopher Cabaldon was elected mayor of West Sacramento in 1998 and came out in 2006, making him the first openly gay Filipino elected as mayor in the USA. As of 2016, he is the longest-serving LGBT mayor in the USA.
Evan Low was elected mayor of Campbell in 2009, at the age 26, making him the youngest gay mayor (and the youngest Asian American mayor) nationwide at the time. Low was reelected in 2013.
In 2010, Joe Mosca took office as mayor of Sierra Madre, becoming the first openly gay mayor in the San Gabriel Valley. By 2010, there were four openly gay mayors in Los Angeles County: Mosca, John Heilman of West Hollywood, Mitch Ward of Manhattan Beach, and Mike Gin of Redondo Beach.
Bao Nguyen was elected mayor of Garden Grove, in 2014, at the age 34, making him the first gay mayor and first Vietnamese mayor of Garden Grove, as well as the youngest mayor in Orange County. He also became the first Vietnamese Democratic mayor in the United States.
Connecticut
Pedro Segarra was the first openly gay mayor of Hartford. Segarra, the former president of the city council, became mayor in 2010 after his predecessor Eddie A. Perez resigned from office. Segarra won a full term in the 2011 election.
Daryl Justin Finizio is the first openly gay mayor of New London (elected 2011).
Delaware
The first openly gay mayor in Delaware was John Buchheit of Delaware City (elected 2011).
Florida
Richard A. Heyman was elected mayor of Key West, in 1983, becoming the first openly LGBT mayor in Florida and one of the first openly LGBT mayors in the United States (Robert F. Gentry of Laguna Beach, California, and John Laird of Santa Cruz, California were both elected the same year).
Other early LGBT mayors
J.P. Sasser – mayor of Pahokee; came out in 2006, while in his third term in office
Ken Keechl – first openly LGBT person to serve on the Broward County Commission (elected 2006), and to serve as vice mayor (2008) and mayor (2009) of Broward County (mayor and vice mayor are chosen by vote on Commissioners)
Craig Lowe – first openly LGBT mayor of Gainesville (and of any north Florida city) (elected 2010).
Georgia
Cathy Woolard was elected to the Atlanta City Council in 1997, becoming the first openly LGBT elected official in the state of Georgia. She went on to become council president.
Indiana
Peter Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend – publicly announced that he was gay in 2015, while in his first term in office; first openly LGBT executive official in Indiana.
Iowa
Bill Crews – mayor of the small town of Melbourne; came out while in office (reelected 1995)
Kentucky
Lexington
Mayor: Jim Gray
Vicco
Mayor: Johnny Cummings
Maryland
Salisbury
Mayor: Jim Ireton
College Park
Mayor: Patrick Wojahn
Massachusetts
Attleboro
Mayor: Kevin Dumas (male), elected 2003
Cambridge
Kenneth Reeves (male), elected 1992
E. Denise Simmons (female), elected 2008
Holyoke
Mayor: Alex Morse, elected 2011
Michigan
Ferndale
Mayor: Craig Covey
Mississippi
Southaven
Mayor: Greg Davis (came out in 2011)
New Jersey
Asbury Park
Mayor: Edward Johnson, elected 2009
Chatham Borough
Mayor: Bruce Harris, elected 2011
Long Hill Township
Mayor: Gina Genovese, elected 2005
Neptune Township
Mayor: Randy Bishop
Maywood
Mayor: Tim Eustace
New Mexico
Santa Fe
Mayor: Javier Gonzales
North Carolina
Carrboro
Mayor: Mike Nelson, elected 1995
Chapel Hill
Mayor: Mark Kleinschmidt, elected 2009
Oregon
Portland
Sam Adams
Silverton
Stu Rasmussen (transgender)
Rhode Island
Providence
Mayor: David Cicilline
Richmond
Mayor: Benjamin Joseph Reddish III
Texas
Houston
Mayor (Major City): Annise Parker, elected 2009, assumed office January, 2010
Kemp
Mayor (Any City): Matthew Ganssle, elected 2009, assumed office May, 2009
Utah
Willy Marshall, a member of the Libertarian Party, became the first openly gay mayor in Utah when he was elected mayor of Big Water in 2001.
Virginia
Joel McDonald, member of the Virginia Beach School Board, elected 2012. First openly gay candidate to be elected in Hampton Roads.
Washington
Seattle
Mayor: Ed Murray
Shoreline
Mayor: Keith McGlashan
The first openly gay judge in the United States was Stephen M. Lachs, appointed by Governor Jerry Brown to the Los Angeles County Superior Court in 1979. Before leaving office in 1981, Brown appointed three more gay and lesbian judges to the California courts, including the nation's first openly lesbian judge, Mary Morgan, who served on the San Francisco municipal court.
In 1994, Thomas R. Chiola became the first openly gay judge in Illinois (and the first openly gay elected official in Illinois) when voters elected him to the Circuit Court of Cook County.
Deborah A. Batts was the nation's first openly LGBT federal judge. She was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and confirmed by the Senate in a voice vote in 1994. (Judge Vaughn Walker of the Northern District of California served from 1989 to February 2011 but did not come out until April 2011, after his retirement.)
Batts was the sole openly LGBT judge on the federal bench for seventeen years, until Barack Obama appointed a series of gay and lesbian judges to the district courts: J. Paul Oetken (Southern District of New York, 2011); Alison J. Nathan (Southern District of New York, 2011); Michael W. Fitzgerald (Central District of California, 2012); Nitza I. Quiñones Alejandro (Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 2013); Pamela K. Chen (Eastern District of New York, 2013); Michael J. McShane (District of Oregon, 2013); Darrin P. Gayles (Southern District of Florida, 2014); Staci Michelle Yandle (Southern District of Illinois, 2014), and Judith Ellen Levy (Eastern District of Michigan, 2014).
Obama also appointed the first openly LGBT judge of a federal court of appeals, Todd M. Hughes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
The first openly LGBT justice of a state supreme court was Rives Kistler, appointed to the Oregon Supreme Court in 2003, and retained by voters the following year. The next gay or lesbian state supreme court justices were Virginia Linder (Oregon Supreme Court, 2006); Monica Márquez (Colorado Supreme Court, 2010); Barbara Lenk (Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 2011); Sabrina McKenna (Supreme Court of Hawaii, 2011); Beth Robinson (Vermont Supreme Court, 2011).
Benjamin Cruz of Guam was the first openly gay judge of a territorial supreme court; he came out in 1995 and was appointed to the Supreme Court of Guam in 1997. Cruz served as associate justice from 1997 to 1999 and as chief justice from 1999 until his retirement in 2001.
State Judge of Compensation Claims Rand Hoch, Flagler, Seminole and Volusia counties, Florida – appointed 1992
Transgender judge: Victoria Kolakowski, Superior Court of Alameda County, California – elected 2010
Superior Court Judge Victor Carlson, 3rd Judicial District State of Alaska at Anchorage – appointed 1975 served until 1985 when he lost a retention election that was held in the shadow of his coming out.
