This is a timeline of women rabbis in the United States. * 1890s: Ray Frank, a young Jewish woman living on the American frontier, began delivering sermons in her small Jewish community in the American West. Frank was regarded at the time as the "first woman rabbi". * 1972: Sally Priesand became America's first female rabbi ordained by a rabbinical seminary, and the second formally ordained female rabbi in Jewish history, after Regina Jonas. * 1974: Sandy Eisenberg Sasso became the first female rabbi in Reconstructionist Judaism. * 1975: The Women's Rabbinic Network, an American national organization for female Reform rabbis, was founded in 1975 by female rabbinic students. * 1976: Michal Mendelsohn became the first presiding female rabbi in a North American congregation when she was