Jennifer Granholm

Jennifer M. Granholm is governor of the State of Michigan in the United States. She is the first female governor of the state.

Granholm was born in British Columbia, Canada, but her family moved to California when she was four. She graduated from the University of California-Berkeley and Harvard Law School. She clerked for U.S. Judge Damon Keith on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. She married current "first gentleman" Daniel Mulhern, a corporate lawyer from Michigan and became in 1990 a U.S. prosecutor for the Detroit area. In 1994 she was appointed Wayne County Corporation Counsel. Granholm was elected Michigan Attorney General in 1998, serving for two years (1999-2001). She defeated Republican state senator Dick Posthumus in 2000 to become governor.