Category: Lieutenant Governor

Jari Askins
Jari Askins


Jari Askins took the office of Oklahoma Administrative Director of the Courts in 2015. Previously she served as Oklahoma's 15th lieutenant governor from 2007 to 2011. Askins was born April 27, 1953, in Duncan, Oklahoma. She completed her Bachelor Arts in journalism from the University of Oklahoma in 1975. In 1980, she received her Juris Doctorate from the University of Oklahoma College of Law. Prior to serving as lieutenant governor, Askins served as the special district judge of Stephen County, Oklahoma, from 1982 to 1990. From 1991 to 1992, she […]
Kathleen Blanco
Kathleen B Blanco


Kathleen Babineaux Blanco served as the first female governor of Louisiana from 2004 to 2008. Blanco was born on December 15, 1942, in New Iberia, Louisiana. She received her bachelor's degree in business education at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1964, after which she taught high school business for a year before becoming a stay-at-home mother. In 1982, she and her husband started Coteau Consultants, a political and marketing research firm. Blanco also worked as a district manager for the US Department of Commerce . Before being elected […]
Madeleine Bordallo
Madeleine Bordallo


Madeleine Z. Bordallo served as the delegate from the U.S. territory of Guam to the U.S. House of Representatives from 2003-2019, the first woman to represent Guam in Congress. Bordallo was born in Graceville, Minnesota, on May 31, 1933, and moved to Guam after her father took a job with the Guam Department of Education. In the 1950s and 1960s, she worked for radio and television broadcaster KUAM, an NBC affiliate that was the first television station in Guam. Bordallo's husband served as governor of Guam from 1975-1978 and again […]
Jennifer Carroll
Jennifer Carroll


Jennifer Carroll, Florida's 18th lieutenant governor, served from January 2011 to March 2013. She is the state's first Black American and first woman elected as lieutenant governor, and the first Black person elected to statewide office in Florida since Reconstruction. Carroll was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies, on August 27, 1959. She immigrated to the United States when she was eight. Following her graduation from Uniondale High School in New York, she enlisted in the U.S. Navy. After 20 years of service, she retired as a lieutenant […]
Martha Collins
Martha Layne Collins


Martha Layne Collins served as governor of Kentucky from 1983-1987, the only woman to hold this position. Collins was born on December 7, 1936, in Shelby County, Kentucky. She graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1959 with a bachelor of science in home economics. After graduation, she worked as a school teacher. Collins became active in gubernatorial and congressional campaigns in 1971. In 1975, she was elected clerk of the Kentucky Supreme Court. In 1979, she was elected lieutenant governor of Kentucky. In 1983, Collins was elected governor, and […]
Jessica Cook
Jessica Cook


Jessica Cook ran for election for lieutenant governor of Alaska in 2022, losing in the general election Cook was born at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska. She graduated from the University of Alaska with a degree in education. She has also earned two separate masters degrees in education. Cook has taught in the Anchorage School District for more than 20 years.
Suzanne Crouch
Suzanne Crouch


Suzanne Crouch has served as Indiana's lieutenant governor since January 2017. She is running for governor in the 2024 election. Crouch was born February 27, 1952. She received her bachelor’s degree in political science from Purdue University. Prior to election to her first office, she served four years as chairman of the Vanderburgh County Republican Central Committee. Before becoming lieutenant governor, Crouch served as Indiana state auditor from 2014 to 2017 and as a state representative from 2005 to 2014. In the House, she served as the vice chairman of […]
Nancy Dahlstrom
Nancy Dahlstrom


Nancy Dahlstrom assumed office as lieutenant governor of Alaska on Dec. 5, 2022. Dahlstrom was born on August 13,1957, in Baltimore, Maryland, and was raised in Eagle River, Alaska. She attended Wayland Baptist University where she earned a degree in human services. She would go onto earning her master's degree from the University of LaVerne. Dahlstrom held many managerial positions and was a support specialist and sales representative before entering the political realm. Dahlstrom served in the Alaska House of Representatives from 2003-2010. She was later appointed as senior military […]
Diane Denish
Diane Denish


Diane Denish served as New Mexico's lieutenant governor from 2003 to 2011, the first woman to hold that position in New Mexico. Denish was born March 7, 1949, in Hobbs, New Mexico, and received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of New Mexico in 1971. Prior to serving as lieutenant governor, Denish served as a member of the Board of Regents at New Mexico Tech University, as a chair of the New Mexico Commission on the Status of Women and as a member of the National Advisory Board of […]
Heidi Drygas
Heidi Drygas


Heidi Drygas is a former commissioner of the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development who was a 2022 independent candidate for lieutenant governor of Alaska, along with former governor Bill Walker. Drygas was born in Fairbanks, Alaska in 1978. She attended the University of Alaska - Fairbanks and graduated with a Bachelors of Arts degree in history. She also attended Willamette University College of Law receiving a juris doctorate. Drygas previously worked as an attorney focusing on commercial and insurance law. She served as general counsel to the Alaska […]