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Debbie Hammons speaks on female leadership and representation

When Debbie Hammons was first elected to the Wyoming House of Representatives in 2005, a reporter asked her how it felt to be a minority. She replied, "Which minority are you talking about? Being a woman or being a Democrat or being from the Big Horn Basin?"

Hammons was born in 1950 and raised on a Worland, Wyoming ranch. She attended school before Title IX, and as an ambitious young girl, found t...