Political Career
- 1982 - Elected city councilor of Rio de Janeiro for the Worker's Party.
- 1986 - Elected to the National Congress; fought to make amendments to the Brazilian Constitution on racial crimes, 120 days maternity leave, prohibition of difference of wages and right of the prison inmates to breast-feed their children.
- 1994 - Elected to the Senate, becoming the first female senator in Brazil.
- 1998 - Became Vice-Governor of the State of Rio de Janeiro on the Anthony Garotinho ticket.
- 2002 - With Governor Anthony Garotinho resigning to run for President, Da Silva assumes the Governorship of the State of Rio de Janeiro, becoming the first woman and the first black to occupy the office.
- 2003 - Leaving the State government, Silva takes the post of Social Action Secretary, where she remains until January 2004.
- 2006 - Assumed the general coordination of the campaign of re-election of current president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the state of Rio De Janeiro. Some periodicals speculated that, she would run for mayor of the City of Rio De Janeiro in 2008. It didn't happen.
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