Gina Raimondo

Gina Marie Raimondo is an American politician and venture capitalist who has been the 75th governor of Rhode Island since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the first woman to serve as Governor of Rhode Island. Before her election, she served as general treasurer of Rhode Island from 2011 to 2015 and was the second woman to hold that office. She was selected as the Democratic candidate for Rhode Island's governorship in the 2014 election. Raimondo won the election on November 4, 2014, with 41% of the vote, in a three-way race, against the mayor of Cranston, Republican Allan Fung, and businessman Robert Healey. She won re-election on November 6, 2018 with a majority of the vote and the largest margin of victory for a Rhode Island gubernatorial race in decades.