Women in Politics – Don’t Tell Her She Can’t!
It was 1973, East Hampton needed a Town Supervisor. She was told ‘no one will elect a woman.’ Those words would keep with her forever and blazed a future she hadn’t thought of. Judith Hope ran, won and became East Hampton’s first female Town Supervisor serving three terms. Turns out, Judith was the first female town supervisor in all of Long Island. Local politics and women are quite the combination. Judith ran on an environmental ticket. She got the 2% transfer tax passed which has raised over a billion dollars and is responsible for saving more than 5,000 acres of open space,
Judith didn’t stop there. She was recruited to run the State Democratic Party during which time they registered more than a million new voters, elected a state comptroller and two state senators. In 1991 she founded the Eleanor Roosevelt Legacy Committee. The committee encourages Democrat women to run for state and local office.
Judith Hope, a woman who keeps empowering and inspiring women in politics.