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About the Author

A professional writer and former teacher, Pat Pascoe served twelve years in the Colorado State Senate, where she focused on education policy. More information about Pat and her career can be found at her website.

Praise for Helen Ring Robinson: Colorado Senator and Suffragist…

"The mysteries surrounding this pioneering woman make this timely biography a compelling read. Congratulations to author Pat Pascoe! We will all be enriched by getting to know Helen Ring Robinson and by gaining further insights into the time in which she lived."
-Dottie Lamm, Former First Lady of Colorado

"For nearly a century, Helen Ring Robinson has rested in peaceful anonymity. Pat Pascoe's exhaustive research has changed all that. Robinson can now take her proper historical place as Colorado's first elected state senator and pioneer crusader for the rights of women and children. Pat Pascoe's detailed narrative provides, with clarity, a fascinating picture of Colorado politics in the first quarter of the 20th century."
-Clé Cervi Symons, former editor, Cervi's Journal

"Helen Ring Robinson left an amazing legislative record of achievement for women and children during a time when Colorado politics were as turbulent as any in recent recollection. Send this book to your congressional representative. They could learn a lot from this woman who served 100 years ago!"
-Pat Schroeder, Colorado's first Congresswoman

"This careful documentation on the little-known and gutsy achievements of the second woman in the world to serve as an elected state senator, dedicated to bettering lives of women and children, should be in every Colorado high school and college library so that current and future students may know what women have accomplished here. Pat Pascoe has produced a very readable work with many personal insights, exemplifying the tradition that past women are role models for future generations."
-Beverly Chico, Women's History, Regis University