Then Supervisor-elect Dianne Feinstein poses with her husband, Dr. Bertram Feinstein and her daughter, Kathy, after becoming the first woman ever elected to…
Dianne Feinstein, the nation s oldest senator and a longtime liberal powerhouse, passed away at 90 Friday morning after more than three decades in the upper chamber.
Feinstein suddenly became the mayor of San Francisco in 1978 when Harvey Milk was assassinated. Later she was elected to the U.S. Senate after male senators grilled Anita Hill in public hearings.
Dianne Feinstein, who surmounted an abusive childhood and early political failures to become the first woman to represent California in the Senate and a central figure in the rise of