Credit: November 2019 Congressional Pictorial Directory for the 116th Congress (Wikimedia Creative Commons) / Screenshot via YouTube
A Black Woman Presides Over Us House of Representatives for the First Time in History
Cheryl Johnson, who was sworn in as Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives by Speaker Nancy Pelosi in 2021, begins a historic term as the House seeks a new leader.
As the Pelosi era comes to a close, the vote to choose a new House Speaker is adamant. The ending of her two-decade reign is required by the Constitution for any new Congress to be selecting the House’s presiding officer, who is simultaneously a party leader, and the institution’s administrative head, among other duties.
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