Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee

Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee
Speaker of the Tennessee Senate
Seal of Tennessee
Incumbent Randy McNally since January 10, 2017
Status	Presiding officer
Member of	Tennessee Senate
Appointer	Tennessee Senate
Constituting instrument	Tennessee Constitution
Formation	February 23, 1870; 154 years ago (1870-02-23)
First holder	Dorsey B. Thomas
Succession	First
Salary	$72,948 (2022)[1]
Website	Government website

The Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the Senate of Tennessee is the presiding officer of the Tennessee Senate and first in line in the succession to the office of governor of Tennessee in the event of the death, resignation, or removal from office through impeachment and conviction of the governor of Tennessee.

The current lieutenant governor is Randy McNally, who was elected to the post on January 10, 2017, and is the second (consecutive) Republican to hold the post since Reconstruction. He succeeded Ron Ramsey, who held the post continuously from 2007 to 2017.

Under the Tennessee State Constitution of 1870, the speaker of the Senate is elected by the Tennessee State Senate from among its members. The lieutenant governor as a member of the Tennessee Senate has a four-year term as a senator but is subject to re-election by his peers with each new legislature; as the senators' terms are staggered by class and there could be a 50 percent turnover in membership between one legislature and the next.