Peggy Flanagan

Peggy Flanagan
Flanagan in 2024
50th Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota
Incumbent
Assumed office January 7, 2019
Governor	Tim Walz
Preceded by	Michelle Fischbach
Member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from the 46A district
In office November 9, 2015 – January 7, 2019
Preceded by	Ryan Winkler
Succeeded by	Ryan Winkler
Personal details
Born	(1979-09-22) September 22, 1979 (age 44) Minnesota, U.S.
Nationality	American White Earth Nation
Political party	Democratic (DFL)
Spouse(s)	Tim Hellendrung ​ (div. 2017)​ Tom Weber ​ (m. 2019)​
Children	1
Education	University of Minnesota (BA)

Peggy Flanagan (born September 22, 1979) is an American politician, community organizer, and Native American activist serving as the 50th lieutenant governor of Minnesota since 2019. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), Flanagan served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019.

Flanagan grew up in Saint Louis Park, Minnesota, an inner-ring suburb of Minneapolis. She got her start as a community organizer organizing the urban indigenous community, including for U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone’s 2002 reelection campaign. She was elected to and served on the Minneapolis Public Schools Board from 2005 to 2009. In 2015, Flanagan was elected to fill a vacancy in the Minnesota House, representing a section of Minneapolis's western inner-ring suburbs.

Flanagan was elected lieutenant governor in 2018 and reelected in 2022, both times as Tim Walz's running mate, becoming the first woman of color elected to statewide office in Minnesota, and the highest-ranking Native American woman in elected office in the nation.^[1]