Southeast Iowa state senator named Iowa’s next lieutenant governor

DES MOINES — Governor Kim Reynolds has appointed a southeast Iowa state senator to be the state’s next lieutenant governor.

Chris Cournoyer of LeClaire was elected to the Iowa Senate in 2018. She chaired the inaugural Technology committee, from which position she wrote and managed the legislation that made Iowa the sixth state in the nation to protect consumer data law

Conurnoyer was also chair of the Senate Education Budget Committee, vice chair of the State Government committee and sat on the Education, Natural Resources and Environment, Transportation, and Ways & Means committees.

Reynolds says Cournoyer has the character, judgement and ability needed to serve as governor in case she was ever unable to.

Cournoyer worked as a senior consultant in the technology division at Andersen Consulting, a Fortune 500 firm that later became Accenture. She has also built a successful business as an independent website designer and developer.