JUDY GRIESEDIECK / HARTFORD COURANT
Connecticut Gov. Ella Grasso sits with U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Rep. Christopher Dodd at the governor’s residence in Hartford between fundraisers for Dodd’s successful U.S. Senate campaign in 1980. 
Former governors Ella Grasso and M. Jodi Rell were role models for women entering politics.
