Evanore Olds Beebe was elected to the School Committee Wilbraham, Massachusetts in 1906 to 1914. She was the first woman in Wilbraham to serve as chairman of the School Committee.
Mary Safford Blake was elected to the Boston School Committee in 1874. She was one of six women elected that year. Dr. Safford-Blake was one of the first, if not the first female gynecologists in the United States.