Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts | The nation’s first African American and Mexican American woman to be NEA Chair.

City of Bogotá | The first woman and the first openly LGBT person to be elected mayor of Bogotá.

City of Calgary | The first woman to be elected mayor of Calgary.

City of Montréal | The first woman to be elected mayor of Montréal.

City of Boston | The first woman, first person of color, and first Asian American to be elected mayor of Boston.