AK HJR21

Commemorates the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in the United States, marking the 1920 ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.

Highlights Alaska's pioneering role by noting that the First Alaska Territorial Legislature granted women voting rights on March 21, 1913, seven years before federal passage.

Documents Alaska's history of female political leadership, including Nell Scott (first female legislator in 1936), Sarah Palin (first female governor in 2006), and Lisa Murkowski (first woman from Alaska elected to U.S. Senate in 2002).

Notes that 23 female legislators serve in the Thirty-First Alaska State Legislature as of 2019, representing the largest proportion of women lawmakers in state history.

Requests the Lieutenant Governor coordinate recognition and commemorative events throughout 2020 to celebrate women's suffrage and Alaska's history of empowering women as equal members of society.