Iowa
WATCH: Historic moment in Iowa
DES MOINES, Iowa (Gray Media Iowa State Capitol Bureau) – Monday marked a day that Iowa has never had in its 178-year history: the state now has a female governor and lieutenant governor.
Governor Kim Reynolds, a Republican and Iowa’s first woman to hold the job, announced that state Senator Chris Cournoyer, a Republican from LeClaire, will fill the vacant lieutenant governor position.
Adam Gregg announced on September 3rd that he was resigning from the job to become the next leader of the Iowa Bankers Association.
Cournoyer resigned as state senator Monday before getting sworn in as lieutenant governor.
Cournoyer was elected to the state senate in 2018 and re-elected in 2022. She has previously served on the school board in the Pleasant Valley Community School District and started a website development and design company.
The governor will have to choose a date for a special election to replace Cournoyer in the senate.
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