Kimberly Kay Reynolds is an American politician serving as the 43rd and current Governor of Iowa since 2017. Reynolds previously served as the 46th Lieutenant Governor ofIowa from 2011 to 2017. Before she was elected Lieutenant Governor, Reynolds served as Clarke County Treasurer for four terms and then served in the Iowa Senate from 2009 to 2010.
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Kimberly Kay Reynolds is an American politician serving as the 43rd and current Governor of Iowa since 2017. She is the first female governor of Iowa. Reynolds previously served as the 46th Lieutenant Governor ofIowa from 2011 to 2017. Before she was elected Lieutenant Governor, Reynolds served as Clarke County Treasurer for four terms and then served in the Iowa Senate from 2009 to 2010. Reynolds was twice charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, first in 1999 and again in 2000. In 2010, Reynolds endorsed a ban on same-sex marriage in Iowa. In 2018, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, Reynolds said she did not consider herself obligated to follow the Iowa Republican Party platform provision against same- sex marriage. Reynolds acknowledged that farmers would benefit from President Donald Trump’s trade policies in the end, but then said she would not follow the same party’s platform. In January 2019, Reynolds signed into law a bill requiring public universities to protect all energy efficiency policies. On March 27,2019, Reynolds began her first full term on January 18, 2019.
She won a full term as governor in the 2018 gubernatorial election. Reynolds’s elevation to the governorship created a vacancy in the office of the lieutenant governor, and reports indicated that her selection of a lieutenant governor could be challenged in theIowa Supreme Court. On May 25, 2017, Reynolds announced that Iowa Public Defender Adam Gregg would serve as acting lieutenant governor; to avoid litigation, the Reynolds administration stated that Gregg would not succeed Reynolds in the event of her inability to serve as governor. Reynolds married Kevin Reynolds in 1982. As of 2018, the Reynoldses have three daughters and nine grandchildren. Reynolds stated that she sought inpatient treatment for alcoholism following her second arrest and that she had been sober for nearly 17 years. On June 25, 2010, Republican gubernatorial nominee Terry Branstad publicly proposed Reynolds for Lieutenant Governor. The next day, she received the Republican nomination from the 2010 Republican State Convention. Reynolds resigned from her Senate seat on November 12, 2010.
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