Senator Blackburn Commemorates Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment With Female Colleagues
Senator Blackburn Leads All-Female Delegation to U.S.-Mexico Border Focused on Preventing Human Trafficking
Senator Blackburn Celebrates International Women’s Day With Her Daughter & Mother
President Trump Signs Senator Blackburn’s Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commemorative Coin Act Into Law
As the first woman to represent the state of Tennessee in the United States Senate, Senator Blackburn has been a trailblazer throughout her distinguished career. Her leadership philosophy is based on her experiences in the private sector as a small businesswoman, mother, and grandmother.
Senator Blackburn attended college on a 4-H scholarship. She worked her way through school by selling books for the Southwestern Company as one of their first female sales associates, and later as one of their first female sales managers. Building on that experience, she then founded her own business, Marketing Strategies, which focused on the retail marketplace, as well as electronic and print media.
Since beginning her career in public service in 1995, Senator Blackburn has helped pave the way for women and has prioritized crafting legislation that empowers and protects women on a broad range of issues, from Title IX and women’s sports to human trafficking, female veterans’ access to health care, and more.
Senator Blackburn Hosts Women's Empowerment Roundtable
Since taking public office, Senator Blackburn has ardently fought to protect women and children. In 1999, she helped found the Davis House, a center to help children being abused and has also supported initiatives such as the Scarlet Rope Center in Jackson, Tennessee, to assist victims of human trafficking.
Domestic violence affects millions of women across the United States, with far too many experiencing abuse at the hands of an intimate partner during their lifetime. However, some women, even at their most vulnerable and isolated, will continue going to the salon and building relationships with their cosmetologists. The SALONS Stories Act would incentivize training for cosmetologists and beauticians so that they can spot signs of domestic violence among their clients and get them the help they need. This initiative replicates a program in Tennessee, Shear Haven, that has helped countless girls and women.
In 2023, Senator Blackburn led an all-female delegation with Senators Katie Britt (R-Ala.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) to the Del Rio Sector of the U.S.-Mexico border, where they witnessed firsthand human smugglers leading illegal aliens across the border and into the United States. The Senators held a roundtable where they learned about cartel activity in Mexico and the work being done to rescue victims of human trafficking.
Following her trip, Senator Blackburn first introduced the bipartisan SAVE Girls Act, which would provide states, local governments, and nonprofits with vital resources they need to train personnel, conduct rescues, and help save trafficking victims.
Title IX opened the floodgates to allow women in sports by requiring equal resources for facilities, training, recruitment, and scholarships for female athletic programs. Because of Title IX’s passage over 50 years ago, women’s sports were revolutionized, and the number of female high school and college athletes exploded.
The Biden administration launched an attack on the integrity of women’s sports and Title IX by pushing radical gender ideology that forced women to compete with men in sports and share their spaces with boys. In 2022, on the 50th anniversary of Title IX, the Biden Department of Education announced a set of new rules that formally enshrined the ability of students to participate in activities that do not align with their sex, essentially forcing schools to allow biological males to play on female teams. In 2024, the administration redefined “discrimination” to allow biological men to use women-only locker rooms and bathrooms.
Senator Blackburn co-sponsored the Women’s Bill of Rights, which would legally define basic sex-based terms and protect single-sex spaces for women, including rape crisis centers, domestic violence shelters, athletic teams, locker rooms, and sororities.
On February 5, 2025, the President signed an executive order upholding Title IX by barring biological males from women’s sports categories. Senator Blackburn attended the signing ceremony, praising the order as a common-sense victory for female athletes, and she remains committed to supporting these measures to protect Title IX.
Additionally, Senator Blackburn led over 20 of her Republican colleagues in introducing a resolution to recognize October 10 as ‘American Girls in Sports Day’ to celebrate the contributions made by women and changing the world of athletics. After attempting to pass the resolution by unanimous consent on the Senate floor, the resolution was blocked by Democrats and prevented the Senate from honoring the achievements of America’s female athletes.
Senator Blackburn has stood up to efforts by the radical left to erase the word “woman” from the history books. Most notably, during then-Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2022, Senator Blackburn asked the judicial nominee a simple question: “Can you provide a definition for the word ‘woman?’” Judge Jackson’s failure to answer the question sent shockwaves through the nation, indicating a belief that “woman” is too controversial a term for the left to define.
Senator Blackburn is pleased to have a president back in the Oval Office who acknowledges and affirms biological truth. On January 20, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order recognizing male and female as the only two sexes, rejecting woke gender ideology and directing federal agencies to enforce sex-based protections, which Senator Blackburn has applauded.
As the first woman elected to represent the state of Tennessee in the United States Senate, Senator Blackburn has led several pieces of legislation to commemorate the accomplishments of women throughout history. In 2019, her bipartisan Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commemorative Coin Act, honoring the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote and the legacy of the suffrage activists, was signed into law by President Trump.
Senator Blackburn introduced the bipartisan Women’s Suffrage National Monument Location Act to commemorate the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution and secure a prominent location for a national monument honoring women’s history on the National Mall. President Trump signed the Women’s Suffrage National Monument Location Act into law, ensuring that future generations will have a dedicated space on America’s most sacred civic ground to recognize the vital contributions of American women.
