Treasury Department to Put a Woman on the $10 Bill

The Treasury Department has announced that they'll be putting a woman on the $10 bill starting in 2020, but they haven't said who it'll be yet.

Women's suffrage leader Susan B. Anthony was honored on the $1 coin from 1979 to 1981, and Sacagawea, an American Indian guide on the Lewis and Clark expedition, has been on $1 gold coins since 2000. However, the last woman to appear on U.S. paper currency was Martha Washington, who was on the $1 Silver Certificate in 1886.

The Treasury is open to suggestions from the public and says in addition to launching a website in the near future, people can share their suggestion via social media using the hashtag #TheNew10.

And if you're thinking that it would be awesome to suggest a current movie star, celebrity or anyone else still living, don't.  It's illegal to put a living person on U.S. currency. And beside that,Treasury Secretary Jack Lew says, "democracy will be the theme of these new notes."

We chatted about that this morning during the Hawk Morning Show and some of the names people gave us were Harriet Tubman, Betsy Ross, Susan B. Anthony, Rosa Parks and Christa McAuliffe, the teacher who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. So, who do you think the Treasury should put on the $10 bill?