Peggy Flanagan — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

50th Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota since 2019
Served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
Served on the Minneapolis Public Schools Board from 2005 to 2009 and 2010 to 2011
Citizen of the White Earth Nation
First woman of color elected to statewide office in Minnesota
Received a bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota in 2002

Biography

Margaret "Peggy" Flanagan is an American politician and Ojibwe activist currently serving as the 50th Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota since 2019. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), she was elected alongside Tim Walz in 2018 and reelected in 2022. Flanagan made history as the first woman of color elected to statewide office in Minnesota, and at the time of her initial election, she was the highest-ranking Native American woman to hold elected office in the country.