Gretchen Whitmer
Gretchen Esther Whitmer is an American politician serving as the 49th governor of Michigan since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2001 to 2006 and the Michigan Senate from 2006 to 2015. She was the Senate’s first female Democratic leader from 2011 to 2015, making her the first woman to lead a party caucus in the Senate. In 2013, Whitmer gained national attention for a floor speech during a debate on abortion in which she shared her experience of being sexually assaulted.
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Gretchen Esther Whitmer is an American politician serving as the 49th governor of Michigan since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2001 to 2006 and the Michigan Senate from 2006 to 2015. In 2013, Whitmer gained national attention for a floor speech during a debate on abortion in which she shared her experience of being sexually assaulted. In February 2020, she was selected to give the Democratic response to President Donald Trump’s 2020 State of the Union Address. On October 8, 2020, the Federal Bureau of Investigation thwarted a militia group’s kidnapping plot against her. In early January 2021, then-President-elect Joe Biden nominated Whitmer as a vice chair of the DNC. Whitmer was elected governor in the 2018 gubernatorial election, defeating Republican Attorney General Bill Schuette. She said that if elected, she would focus on improving Michigan’s infrastructure and improving the economy. She is a graduate of Forest Hills Central High School near Grand Rapids, Michigan State University, and theMichigan State University College of Law. She ran unsuccessfully for the state house in the 1990s before being elected in 2000. In 2006, she became a state senator, a position she kept until term limits forced her to step down in 2015. She was the Senate’s first female Democratic leader from 2011 to 2015, making her the first woman to lead a party caucus in the Senate. In July 2018, she won all 83 counties in the state’s Democratic primary in the Democratic primary for governor.
She won the election on August 7, 2018, and became the Democratic nominee for governor on August 8, 2018. Her father was head of the state department of commerce under Governor William Milliken and was the president and CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan between 1988 and 2006. Her mother worked as an assistant attorney general under Michigan Attorney General Frank Kelley. Her parents divorced when she was ten years old; she and her siblings moved with their mother to Grand Rapids. She received a BA degree in communications from Michigan State. University in 1993 and a Juris Doctor from Detroit college of Law at Michigan state University in 1998. In March 2006, Whitmmer won a special election to the Michigan State Senate, replacing Virg Bernero, who had been elected mayor of Lansing in November 2005. She was elected to a full term in November, and reelected in 2010. In May 2016, it was announced that the judges of Michigan’s 30th Judicial Circuit Court had unanimously selected Whitmer to serve the remaining six months of outgoing Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III’s term after he was arrested on March 14, 2016, and charged with 11 counts of involvement with a prostitute and four counts of willful neglect of duty. In a letter dated March 29, 2016,. Dunnings announced he would resign effective July 2. On June 21,2016, Whitter was administered the oath of office as prosecutor by InGHam County Circuit Court Chief Judge Janelle Lawless.
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