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If Kamala Harris wins in November, America wouldn’t just see its first Black woman and South Asian president — but also the nation’s first Native woman governor.
Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, is “currently the country’s highest ranking Native woman elected to executive office,” according to her official bio. And if Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz — announced Tuesday as Harris’ running mate — becomes the vice president, Flanagan would ascend to the state’s highest executive office, becoming its first woman governor and the first Native woman in the country to hold the role.
Flanagan, 44, was elected Lieutenant Governor in 2018 after serving for three years in the Minnesota House of Representatives.
During her time as Lieutenant Governor, Flanagan established the country’s first Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Office, increased cash, food and child care assistance to low-income families and invested “in equity in bonding to support community projects led by and for people of color,” according to her office.
If Walz becomes the vice president in January, he would vacate the governorship and Flanagan would become governor, according to the Minnesota Constitution.
“I have been honored this entire time to serve the people of Minnesota,” she told MinnPost last week. “That would not change.”
