One of the original 13 colonies, Georgia became a state in 1788. Since its founding, there have been three women elected to hold statewide constitutional offices. Only THREE. Cathy Cox is one of them.

In 1999, Cathy Cox made history as Georgia’s first woman Secretary of State. In this first episode of the trailblazers series with Host Ebony Phillips, she shares the story of how she accomplished that historic milestone, including how she defeated a 16-year incumbent during her campaign for the Georgia House of Representatives.

A long-time GAWL member, President Cox also discusses lessons learned along the way, the challenges that she had to overcome on her journey to becoming the “first,” and why it’s so important for attorneys to be involved in volunteer organizations like GAWL. What many people don’t know is that law is not President Cox’s first career field. Tune in to find out the other two. One of them was quite dangerous. You will be surprised