Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (born Ileana Ros y Adato; July 15, 1952) was the U.S. Representative for Florida's 27th congressional district, serving in Congress from 1989 to 2019. She is a member of the Republican Party.
She was the most senior Republican woman in the U.S. House, and was the first Republican woman elected to the House of Representatives from Florida. She was also the first Hispanic woman, and the first Cuban-American, to be elected to Congress.
She received her Bachelor of Arts in education and her Master of Arts in educational leadership from Florida International University. She attended the University of Miami where she earned a Ph.D. in higher education.
George W. Rosner worked for the library from 1939 to 1941 as a student assistant and later reurned as a librarian with a library science degree from Columbia University. He held the position of head of the Circulation department until 1970, and later became the assistant director of the Archives and Special Collections department.
