COLUMBUS, Ohio — The late Jo Ann Davidson, Ohio's first and only female House speaker, was remembered during a Statehouse memorial service Thursday for blazing trails for women with grit ...

Jo Ann Davidson, Ohio's first woman House speaker and an advocate for putting effective Republican women in office, died Friday. She was 97. Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a long-time friend ...

A public memorial for former Ohio House Speaker Jo Ann Davidson will be held Thursday at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus. Visitation will be held in the rotunda from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. with a ...

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine issued the following statement on the death of former Ohio Speaker of the House Jo Ann Davidson, of Findlay, who died Friday at the age of 97. “Fran and I are saddened to ...

FILE - Jo Ann Davidson, co-chair of the Republican National Committee, speaks at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File) COLUMBUS ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Jo Ann Davidson, Ohio’s first woman House speaker and an advocate for putting effective Republican women in office, died Friday. She was 97. Republican Ohio Gov.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Jo Ann Davidson, Ohio’s first woman House speaker and an advocate for putting effective Republican women in office, died Friday. She was 97. Republican Ohio Gov.

Outgoing Ohio House of Representatives speaker Jo Ann Davidson and incoming speaker Larry Householder meet in statehouse stairwell during a reception November 29, 2000. Jo Ann Davidson ...

Jo Ann Davidson, Ohio's first woman House speaker and an advocate for putting effective Republican women in office, died Friday. She was 97. Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a long-time friend, ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Jo Ann Davidson, Ohio's first woman House speaker and an advocate for putting effective Republican women in office, died Friday. She was 97. Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine ...

Jo Ann Davidson, who climbed her way up through the male-dominated world of Ohio politics to become Ohio House speaker, died Friday. She was 97. Aside from Nancy Hollister’s 11-day stint as ...