Juliana Stratton

Juliana Stratton
Stratton in 2023
48th Lieutenant Governor of Illinois
Incumbent
Assumed office January 14, 2019
Governor	J. B. Pritzker
Preceded by	Evelyn Sanguinetti
Member of the Illinois House of Representatives from the 5th district
In office January 11, 2017 – January 2, 2019
Preceded by	Kenneth Dunkin
Succeeded by	Lamont Robinson
Personal details
Born	Juliana Wiggins (1965-09-08) September 8, 1965 (age 59) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Children	4
Education	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (BS) DePaul University (JD)

Juliana Stratton (née Wiggins; born September 8, 1965) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 48th lieutenant governor of Illinois since 2019. She previously served as a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 2017 to 2019. She is the first African-American woman to become Illinois' lieutenant governor, and the state's fourth woman lieutenant governor overall, after Corinne Wood, Sheila Simon, and Evelyn Sanguinetti.^[1]