Garlin Gilchrist
American politician
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| March 11 2025 | Announced his candidacy for governor of Michigan in the 2026 election. |
| November 8 2022 | Re-elected as Lieutenant Governor alongside Governor Whitmer, defeating the Republican ticket of Tudor Dixon and Shane Hernandez. |
| 2020 | Named a vice-chair of the 2020 Democratic National Convention. |
| April 9 2020 | Governor Whitmer named Gilchrist as chair of the statewide Coronavirus Task Force on Racial Disparities. |
| 2019 | Served as cochair of the Michigan Joint Task Force on Jail and Pretrial Incarceration, a bipartisan working group examining jail populations and criminal justice reform. |
| 2019 | Selected as a Community Change Champion in Community Organizing for his work advancing social and racial justice in the United States. |
| January 1 2019 | Gilchrist became the first African American Lieutenant Governor of Michigan and the first born in the 1980s, taking office on this date. |
| 2018 | Gretchen Whitmer selected Garlin Gilchrist as her running mate in the Michigan gubernatorial election. |
| 2017 | Ran for Detroit City Clerk against incumbent Janice Winfrey, losing by 1,482 votes. |
| July 2014 | Moved back to Detroit and began working for city government as director of innovation and emerging technology, creating the Improve Detroit smartphone app to help residents report city issues. |
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