(Radio Iowa) – Governor Kim Reynolds has chosen a state senator from Le Claire to be her lieutenant governor.
Fifty-four-year-old Chris Cournoyer took the oath of office in a ceremony at the statehouse this morning. Cournoyer has served in the Iowa Senate since 2019. Iowa has not had a lieutnenant governor since September 2nd when Adam Gregg resigned to become C-E-O of the Iowa Bankers Association.
The governor says Cournoyer will support a wide range of policy priorities given her experience in computer science and artificial intelligence. Cournoyer, who says she’s been a computer nerd since the 1980s, says she’s ready to advance the governor’s agenda in any way that she can.
