House of Cards will return for Season 3 on Friday, February 27th and, if the first 26 episodes and trailers are any indication, it will be better than ever.

The series might only be two seasons old but the contagious Netflix original has introduced some very interesting ladies. From Rachel Posner to Janine Skorsky and Claire Underwood, we’ve seen a slew of curiously fixating characters. The field is not deep but it is certainly diverse and powerful as we rank the most prominent women through the show’s first two seasons: