Kim Reynolds is the 47th and current Lieutenant Governor of Iowa

Lieutenant Governor of Iowa

This is a List of Lieutenant Governors of the U.S. state of Iowa, 1858 to present. In Iowa, the Lieutenant Governor and the governor run together on the same ticket. Before the 1998 Election, the law was changed from the Governor and the Lieutenant Governor running separately....

 and a former state senator from Osceola

Osceola, Iowa

Osceola is a city in Clarke County, Iowa, United States. The population was 4,659 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Clarke County.-Geography:Osceola is located at , at the junction of Interstate 35 and U.S. Routes 34 and 69...

. Republican nominee for Governor Terry Branstad publicly proposed Reynolds for lieutenant governor on June 25, 2010 and she received the Republican nomination from the 2010 Republican State Convention on June 26. Reynolds was elected to represent Iowa Senate

Iowa Senate

The Iowa Senate is the upper house of the Iowa General Assembly. There are 50 members of the Senate, representing 50 single-member districts across the state with populations of approximately 59,500 per constituency. Each Senate district is composed of two House districts...

 District 48 in 2008 and resigned on November 12, 2010 to work on the transition to "focus solely on assisting Gov. (Terry) Branstad’s transition team."

Prior to being elected to the Iowa Senate, she served four terms as the Clarke County

Clarke County, Iowa

-2010 census:The 2010 census recorded a population of 9,286 in the county, with a population density of . There were 4,086 housing units, of which 3,701 were occupied.-2000 census:...

 Treasurer. She had also served on the Iowa Public Employees Retirement System board. She is married and has three adult children. Reynolds is a recovering alcoholic who has been convicted twice of driving under the influence

Driving under the influence

Driving under the influence is the act of driving a motor vehicle with blood levels of alcohol in excess of a legal limit...

 of alcohol. The most recent was in 2000.

Reynolds last sat on these committees in the Iowa Senate:

• Economic Growth
• Environment & Energy Independence
• Local Government (Ranking Member
  Ranking member
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• Rebuild Iowa
• Transportation
• Appropriations Subcommittee: Economic Development Appropriations Subcommittee

External links

• Senator Kim Reynolds official Iowa Legislature site
• Senator Kim Reynolds official Iowa General Assembly site
• Senator Kim Reynolds at Iowa Senate Republican Caucus

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