Gretchen Whitmer
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Gretchen Esther Whitmer (born August 23, 1971) is an American politician and prosecutor who is the governor-elect of Michigan. A member of the Democratic Party, she served as a Michigan State Representative from 2001 to 2006 and Michigan State Senator from 2006 to 2015. She won the gubernatorial election on November 6, 2018, defeating Republican Bill Schuette.

Whitmer was born in 1971 in Lansing, Michigan, as the eldest of three children to Sharon H. "Sherry" Reisig and Richard Whitmer, who were both lawyers. Her father served as head of the state's Department of Commerce under Governor William Milliken and was the president and CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan between 1988 and 2006. Whitmer's mother worked as an assistant attorney general under Michigan Attorney General Frank Kelley. Her parents divorced when she was 10 years old, and she and her siblings lived with their mother in Grand Rapids. Her father traveled from his home in Detroit to visit the family at least once a week. She graduated from Forest Hills Central High School, just outside Grand Rapids. She received a BA in communications from Michigan State University in 1993 and a JD from Detroit College of Law at Michigan State University in 1998.