In 2011, Palumbo became the longest-serving female member of the body. One early victory involved "building statewide opposition to a bill that, before their organized effort, likely would have gone unnoticed and passed easily, removing the requirement that educational institutions offer women's softball as well as men's baseball, violating the spirit if not the letter of Title IX." In the 2000s, Palumbo began caucusing with other female legislators (including included Joni Jenkins, Susan Johns, Eleanor Jordan, Mary Lou Marzian, Kathy Stein, and more) to track legislation in their individual fields of expertise and work together to affect legislation more easily than they could have done alone. In 1998, Palumbo helped pass the Women's Health Act of 1998, which brought reconstructive mastectomies after breast cancer under coverage of medical insurance, as it previously had been considered cosmetic. Through her career, Palumbo has pushed for legislation concerning "more thorough investigations of child sexual abuse Kentucky's compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and sponsorship of bills to protect the elderly in nursing homes," as well as bills to do with women's health, mammogram access, and healthcare in general.
Palumbo is a member of the Kentucky Democratic Party.
Ruth Ann Palumbo (born July 7, 1949) is the longest-serving woman in the Kentucky House of Representatives and has represented District 76, which covers downtown Lexington, Kentucky and eastern Fayette County, since 1991.
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