Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the longest-serving woman in the Senate, died on Thursday night, according to reports confirmed by a member of her family. Feinstein was 90 years old.
“She’s a legend,” Senator Chuck Schumer of New York has said. “A legend in California as the first woman senator. A legend in the Senate. She was the leader on so many different issues.”
Feinstein was elected to the senate, alongside Congresswoman Barbara Boxer, in 1992, becoming the first woman to chair the Senate Rules Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Then, this past spring, she was absent from the Capitol for more than two months while she recovered from shingles and post-shingles encephalitis.
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