The first openly trans person elected to a U.S. state legislature discusses her lonely and closeted childhood and how she re-wrote her own future by deciding to run for office.

The personal papers described in this guide were chiefly generated or collected by Mary A. Marshall in the course of her poltical career in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1966-1970 and 1972-1992. Types of material include legislative subject files, legislative bills, press releases, campaign literature and correspondence, engagement calendars, photographs and newspaper clippings.