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Winsome Earle-Sears
Winsome Earle-Sears


Winsome Earle-Sears has served as lieutenant governor of Virginia since 2022, Virginia's first female lieutenant governor and the first woman of color to hold statewide office in Virginia. She is the Republican nominee for governor for the 2025 gubernatorial election. Earle-Sears was born on March 11, 1964, in Kingston, Jamaica and emigrated to the United States in 1970. She earned an associate’s degree from Tidewater Community College, a bachelor’s degree in English with a minor in economics from Old Dominion University and anmaster’s degree in organizational leadership from Regent University. […]
Sue Ellspermann
Sue Ellspermann


Sue Ellspermann served as the lieutenant governor of Indiana from January 2013 to March 2016, when she resigned to pursue the presidency of Ivy Tech Community College. A 1978 graduate of Forest Park High School, Ellspermann earned a degree in industrial engineering from Purdue University in 1982. After graduating, she worked in engineering and management at AC Spark Plug, Michelin and Frito-Lay. In 1986, Ellspermann and her family returned to Evansville, where she founded a consulting business, Ellspermann and Associates, Inc. While building her practice, Ellspermann completed a doctorate in […]
Mary Fallin
Mary Fallin


Mary Fallin served as Oklahoma's governor from 2011-2019, the state's first female governor. Fallin was born on December 9, 1954, in Warrensburg, Missouri. Both her mother and father served terms as mayor of Tecumseh, Oklahoma, where she was raised. Fallin graduated in 1977 from Oklahoma State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in human and environmental sciences, and family relations and child development. Fallin served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1991 to 1995, then as lieutenant governor of Oklahoma from 1995-2007, the state's first female lieutenant governor. […]
Peggy Flanagan
Peggy Flanagan


Peggy Flanagan is Minnesota’s 50th lieutenant governor, serving since January 7, 2019. A member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, Flanagan is the second Indigenous woman to be elected to a statewide executive office. Flanagan was born September 22, 1979, and raised in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. She attended the University of Minnesota and in 2002 graduated with a bachelor’s degree in American Indian studies and child psychology. In 2002 she worked on Paul Wellstone’s U.S. Senate campaign and organized with the urban Indigenous community. After graduation, she worked […]
Kyle Evans Gay
Kyle Evans Gay


Kyle Evans Gay assumed office as lieutenant governor of Delaware on January 21, 2025. She represented District 5 as a member of the Delaware State Senate from 2021-2025. Gay was born in Wilmington, Delaware and grew up in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in international relations and history from Brown University and 2008 and a Juris Doctor degree from Boston University in 2012. Gay began her career in Delaware’s Department of Justice, working as a deputy attorney general. She then clerked in the Delaware Superior Court before […]
Edie Grunwald
Edie Grunwald


Col. Edie Grunwald (USAF- Ret.) ran for lieutenant governor of Alaska in 2022, losing in the general election. Grunwald has earned two master's degrees in Strategy in National and Military Service and Business Organizational Management. She has 31 years of military experience in total, 25 of those years spent serving in the Alaska National Guard. After retiring from the military, she earned her Senior Human Resources Certification. She served as the chair of the Alaska Board of Parole from 2019-2022. Grunwald has experience as a director with state and national […]
Kim Guadagno
Kim Guadagno


Kim Guadagno, New Jersey's first lieutenant governor, was sworn into office January 19, 2010. She was concurrently the secretary of state of New Jersey. Guadagno held both positions until 2018. Born in Waterloo, Iowa, Guadagno graduated from Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, in 1980. She completed her Juris Doctorate from American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C., in 1983. Guadagno began her public service as federal prosecutor with the Organized Crime and Racketeering Strike Force in Brooklyn, New York. When she married a native of New Jersey, she […]
Bethany Hall-Long
Bethany Hall-Long


Bethany Hall-Long assumed office as the lieutenant governor of Delaware on January 17, 2017. She is running for governor in the 2024 election. Hall-Long was born on November 12, 1963, in Sussex County, Delaware. She earned her Bachelor's of Science in nursing from Thomas Jefferson University, her Master of Science in nursing from the Medical University of South Carolina, and her doctorate in nursing and public policy from George Mason University. Prior to being elected lieutenant governor, Hall-Long served in the Delaware Senate from 2009 to 2017 representing District 10. […]
Jenean Hampton
Jenean Hampton


Jenean Hampton served as Kentucky’s lieutenant governor from 2015-2019, the first African American in Kentucky history to hold statewide office. Hampton earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from Wayne State University in 1985 and a master's in business administration from the University of Rochester. After graduating from Wayne State University, she served for seven years as a computer systems officer in the United States Air Force, attaining the rank of captain. After her service in the Air Force, Hampton worked in the corrugated packaging industry while earning her M.B.A. […]
Deidre Henderson
Deidre Henderson


Deidre Henderson has served as the lieutenant governor of Utah since 2021, winning reelection in 2024. Henderson was born on September 4, 1975, in Taylorsville, Utah. She earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Brigham Young University. Henderson worked as a campaign manager for Congressman Jason Chaffetz from 2008-2012 before launching a successful campaign for Utah’s State Senate to represent District 7 in 2013. She served in this position for eight years before being chosen by gubernatorial nominee Spencer Cox to serve as his running mate in 2020. Source: […]