Our homeland may soon be secured by a woman!

Numerous news outlets report that President-elect Barack Obama wants Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano as his secretary of Homeland Security. Obama’s team won’t discuss the matter, and Napolitano would only say that she’s "not campaigning nor seeking a job."

Napolitano’s career’s certainly storied. The New York City native got her professional start at the Phoenix law firm that represented Anita Hill in her sexual harassment case against Clarence Thomas. Two years later, in 1993, President Bill Clinton appointed her as a U.S. attorney for Arizona, a position that helped her launch a successful state-attorney-general campaign in 1998. Then, in 2002, she ran for governor. She rose fast in the Democratic ranks and was seen as one of the party’s eight women who could have run in this year’s presidential election.

Though Napolitano’s name has come up multiple times as a potential Homeland Security honcho, there’s speculation she may be hesitant to relieve her gubernatorial position, which would then go to Arizona’s Republican secretary of state, Jan Brewer. A Napolitano departure would also be good news for John McCain — the senator has been mulling a reelection campaign in 2010, and Napolitano’s said to want a Senate seat, too. With the governor in Washington, McCain would have more of a chance at a win.