On the final day of the legislative session, history was made when House lawmakers elected an all-female leadership, marking the first time a woman has served as Delaware’s Speaker of the House.

To lead the second half of the 152nd General Assembly, members selected former House Majority Leader Rep. Valerie Longhurst as Speaker of the House. Rep. Longhurst succeeds Rep. Pete Schwartzkopf, who stepped down Friday after leading the House as Speaker for more than a decade.

This marks the first time in the state’s history that a woman has been elected speaker, the first time a person of color has been elected as majority leader, and the first time an open member of the LGBTQ+ community has been elected to leadership in either chamber.

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