Oct. 31, 2024 18:03 PM EDT
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The late Jo Ann Davidson, Ohio’s first and only female House speaker, was remembered during a Statehouse memorial service Thursday for blazing trails for women with grit, grace and a guiding spirit. Dozens of the Republican women she had mentored wore red in her honor,...
Oct. 25, 2024 16:08 PM EDT
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Jo Ann Davidson, Ohio's first woman House speaker and an advocate for putting effective Republican women in office, died Friday. She was 97.
Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a long-time friend, announced Davidson's death in a statement, calling her “a model...