Alice Bulos

In 1995, when President Clinton named her to the National Council on Aging, she became the first immigrant Filipino - or 1st generation FilAm - to be appointed by a sitting president to a federal advisory body. She has been informally called the "Godmother of Filipino American Politics" because of her role in public service, and her active involvement in women's organizations and Fil-Am groups. In 2020, a stretch of Skyline Boulevard (known as California Route 35 or SR35) was designated as the 'Alice Bulos Memorial Freeway'.

References:

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Bulos

2) https://atrn.assembly.ca.gov/sites/atrn.assembly.ca.gov/files/ACR%2...

3) https://usa.inquirer.net/104726/freeway-marker-honors-late-fil-am-l...

4) https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CRECB-2001-pt10/html/CRECB-2001...

5) https://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/community-matriarchdevo...

Photo courtesy of Ray Buenaventura; "Community Matriarch Devoted Life to Service"; Cherie M. Querol Moreno;
Positively Filipino; 26 October 2016; https://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/community-matriarchdevo...