The great news is that there are so many terrific women running for office in 2014.  Here is ElectWomen’s Women to Watch in 2014 list. Running and didn’t make the list?  Contact us, tell us about you and why you are running.  [email protected]

1. Alison Lundergan Grimes – 35-year-old Kentucky Secretary of State trying to knock off Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
2. Allyson Schwartz – PA Congresswoman in heated primary for Pennsylvania Governor.
3. Erin Bilbray – Emerge Nevada founder, daughter of former Congressman James Bilbray, running for Nevada’s 3^rd Congressional District.
4. Roxanne Lara – attorney, county commissioner, Emerge New Mexico graduate running for New Mexico’s 2^nd Congressional District.
5. Jill Miller Zimon – writer, blogger, political analyst, city councilwoman, running for Ohio State House.
6. Michelle Nunn – First-time candidate, Democratic US Senate candidate for outgoing Senator Saxby Chambliss’s seat in Georgia.
7. Staci Appel, Janet Petersen, Anesa Kajtazovic and Swati Dandekar – these women are running in the Democratic primaries in Congressional Districts 1 and 3 to become Iowa’s first woman in Congress.
8. Alex Sink – Florida former candidate for governor is running for Congress in a special election in January.
9. Marianne Williamson – national author/speaker, running as an Independent in California’s 33^rd Congressional District.
10. Heather Mizeur – EMILY’s List endorsed, openly gay candidate running to become the first female governor of Maryland.
11. Wendy Davis – Texas State Senator, hero to feminists running for governor of the lone star state.
12. Mary Landrieu – Can US Senator Mary Landrieu hold on to her seat in conservative Louisiana?
13. Jeanne Shaheen – US Senator from New Hampshire possibly facing a challenge from former Massachusetts Senator and nude model Scott Brown.
14. Kay Hagan – Another sitting female Senator facing a tough challenge North Carolina.
15. Mary Burke – First-time candidate for statewide office, running for governor of Wisconsin against incumbent Scott Walker.
16. Martha Coakley – Massachusetts Attorney General running for Governor.
17. Connie Pillich – Ohio State Representative running for State Treasurer.
18. Natalie Tennant – West Virginia Secretary of State running for an open US Senate seat.
19. Elisabeth Jensen – Emerge Kentucky graduate, running in her first race to unseat first-term Congressman from Lexington.
20. Nina Turner – Ohio State Senator from Cleveland running for Secretary of State and would become the first African-American to be elected statewide.