Gabrielle Giffords

Giffords co-founded Giffords: Courage to Fight Gun Violence, a gun-control advocacy group, in 2013. Giffords served in the U.S. House representing Arizona's 8th Congressional District from 2007 to 2012, when she resigned due to a severe brain injury from an assassination attempt. Giffords became the youngest woman ever elected to the Arizona state Senate in 2000 and served in the Arizona Legislature from 2000 to 2005.