Juliana Stratton

Juliana Stratton
Stratton in 2023
48th Lieutenant Governor of Illinois
Assumed office
January 14, 2019
GovernorJ. B. Pritzker
Preceded byEvelyn Sanguinetti
Member of the Illinois House of Representatives
from the 5th district
In office
January 11, 2017 – January 2, 2019
Preceded byKenneth Dunkin
Succeeded byLamont Robinson
Personal details
Born
Juliana Wiggins

(1965-09-08) September 8, 1965 (age 59)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Children4
Education

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]

  1. ^ "Rhodes Scholar Antonio Delgado is Headed to Congress • EBONY". EBONY. November 7, 2018. Retrieved November 7, 2018.