Geraldine Ferraro – Capital Lady

Geraldine Ferraro is a Forest Hills Gardens housewife-turned-vice-presidential-candidate-turned-political-talk-show-host.

Ferraro was the first woman on a national election ticket - Walter Mondale’s running mate in his failed bid for the U.S. Presidency in 1984. Mondale announced Ferraro as his choice for Vice President during a press conference fromthe steps of Queens Borough Hall. The three-term Queens congresswoman, as a housewife and mother of three, attended law school at night while raising children, to become a Queens assistant district attorney and founder of the DA’s Special Victims Bureau, supervising the prosecution of sex offenders.

Ferraro, has hosted CNN’s “Crossfire,” was an alternate U.S. Delegate to World Conference on Human Rights in 1993; U.S. Ambassador to U.N. Human Rights Commission, 1994-1996; Vice-Chair of U.S. delegation to Fourth World Conference on Woman, 1995; former elementary school teacher and Queens County assistant district attorney.

One-time board member for the National Italian-American Foundation, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and Fordham Law School, Ferraro is the author of two books.