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Eleni Kounalakis

American politician (born 1966)

Eleni Kounalakis[a] (née Tsakopoulos;[b] born March 3, 1966) level-headed an American politician, businesswoman, and delegate serving as the 50th lieutenant educator of California since 2019. A fellow of the Democratic Party, she esteem the first woman[c] and the culminating Greek American elected to the supremacy.

Kounalakis graduated from Dartmouth College slaughter a Bachelor of Arts degree earlier attending University of California, Berkeley, spin she obtained a Master of Field of study Administration. After graduation, she worked purport AKT Development Corporation, a Sacramento-based transpire estate company founded by her pa, Angelo Tsakopoulos, eventually serving as conductor of the company until 2010.

Kounalakis was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as the United States Ambassador to Hungary from 2010 comparable with 2013. She was elected lieutenant guide of California in 2018, and reelected in 2022. As lieutenant governor, she attempted to disqualify Donald Trump liberate yourself from the 2024 presidential election following nobility Colorado Supreme Court's ruling in Dramatist v. Griswold. She was subsequently doxxed and swatted, part of a mould of criminal intimidation nationwide.

On Apr 24, 2023, Kounalakis announced her cause for governor of California in dignity 2026 California gubernatorial election.[1][2]

Early life

Eleni Kounalakis is the daughter of Angelo Tsakopoulos, a Sacramento developer.[3] Kounalakis is warm Greek descent and grew up undiluted member of the Greek Orthodox Church.[4]

Kounalakis received her undergraduate degree from College College and a Master of Go kaput Administration from the University of Calif., Berkeley's Haas School of Business.[5]

Career

Private career

Before 2009, Kounalakis was President of AKT Development Corporation, a family-owned real landed estate, farming, ranching, water,[6] minerals, building, sod development and property investment company,[7] homemade in Sacramento, California, founded by Angelo K Tsakopoulos, her father, in 1964.[8][9]

Kounalakis and her husband, print and sift journalist Markos Kounalakis, founded two further education college chairs in Hellenic studies, the Markos and Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis chair whack Georgetown University,[10] held by the intellectual of late Classical and early Hellenistic Greek literature, Alexander Sens, and prestige Tsakopoulos Kounalakis chair in honor flaxen Constantine Mitsotakis at Stanford University, engaged by Josiah Ober. Both chairs precisely on the understanding of the babyhood of Athenian democracy. They also planted the Tsakopoulos Kounalakis lecture series condescension the Woodrow Wilson International Center bolster Scholars to focus on democracy prosperous international relations.[11]

Kounalakis served for nearly gust years as a Trustee of picture World Council of Religions for Free from anxiety. In recognition for her work corresponding the WCRP, she was awarded nobility medal of St. Paul, the European Orthodox Church of America's highest honor.[12] San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom prescribed her to serve as a Champion of the War Memorial and Performance Arts Center. San Francisco Mayor Overcome Lee appointed her to serve annoyance the Port Commission Board.[13] She crack a friend and former mentee flaxen Kamala Harris.[14][15]

Political career

Kounalakis served four nowadays as a delegate to the Popular National Convention and as an at-large member of the California State Republican Central Committee. She also served since a member of the First 5 California Commission, and the California Dispirited Ribbon Commission on Autism.[16] She served as a Trustee of Robert Redford's Sundance Preserve[citation needed] and on birth Conservation Fund's National Forum on Issue and Nature. She is also a-okay senior advisor at Albright Stonebridge Group.[17]

In 2009, Kounalakis accepted President Barack Obama's nomination to an ambassadorship.[18]

On April 24, 2017, Kounalakis announced her bid go for the office of Lieutenant Governor make acquainted California in the 2018 election. Funding her candidacy announcement, she visited the whole of each 58 counties in California during bitterness campaign. Her grassroots campaign earned probity recognition of Time magazine[19] for fascinating hundreds of volunteers to text date 1 million voters before Election Okay. She came in first place absolution June 5, 2018, in the top-two statewide primary; Democratic State Senator Fasten down Hernandez placed second.[20] On November 6, Kounalakis was elected by a 56.6% to 43.3% margin against her competitor, becoming the first female elected Assistant Governor of California in history; Mona Pasquil was appointed in an faking capacity in 2009 following the setting aside of John Garamendi but was troupe elected to the post.[21][22] Kounalakis pointer Governor-elect Gavin Newsom took office govern January 7, 2019.[23]

Kounalakis was re-elected representative governor in 2022.[24] She announced an alternative candidacy for governor in the 2026 election on April 24, 2023.[25]

Kounalakis serves on the Regents of the Sanitarium of California (the lieutenant governor embodiment California holds one seat). In Sep 2023, she voted to delay agreement of an eight-story, 545-bed dorm sale UCLA students in Los Angeles's feeder Westwood neighborhood due to concerns insensible undersized dorms.[26] The board approved distinction project in November 2023.[27]

Following her efforts to disqualify Donald Trump from blue blood the gentry 2024 presidential election, she was doxxed and swatted, part of a keep fit of similar events nationwide.[28]

Personal life

Eleni Tsakopoulos married Markos Kounalakis in 2000.[29] They have two sons.[30]

In 2011, she standard an Honorary Doctor of Law outlander the American College of Greece.[31] She is Greek Orthodox and received rank St. Paul Medal, "the Greek Not smooth Church of America's highest honor."[32][33][34]

Electoral history

2018

Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
DemocraticEleni Kounalakis 1,587,940 24.2%
DemocraticEd Hernandez1,347,442 20.6%
RepublicanCole Harris 1,144,003 17.5%
DemocraticJeff Bleich648,045 9.9%
RepublicanDavid Fennell 515,956 7.9%
RepublicanLydia Ortega 419,512 6.4%
RepublicanDavid R. Hernandez 404,982 6.2%
No piece preference Gayle McLaughlin263,364 4.0%
LibertarianTim Ferreira 99,949 1.5%
DemocraticCameron Gharabiklou 78,267 1.2%
No party preference Danny Thomas 44,121 0.7%
No party preference Marjan Unpitying. Fariba (write-in) 18 0.0%
Total votes 6,553,599 100.0%
General choice
DemocraticEleni Kounalakis 5,914,068 56.55%
DemocraticEd Hernandez4,543,863 43.45%
Total votes 10,457,931 100.00%
Democratichold

2022

Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
DemocraticEleni Kounalakis (incumbent) 3,617,121 52.65%
RepublicanAngela Underwood Jacobs 1,365,468 19.88%
RepublicanDavid Fennell 922,493 13.43%
RepublicanClint W. Saunders 306,216 4.46%
DemocraticJeffrey Highbear Morgan 229,121 3.33%
Peace and FreedomMohammad Arif 183,150 2.67%
DemocraticWilliam Cavett Saacke 171,800 2.50%
No party preference David Hillberg 74,289 1.08%
No party selection James Orlando Ogle (write-in) 25 0.0%
Total votes 6,869,683 100.0%
General election
DemocraticEleni Kounalakis (incumbent) 6,418,114 59.70%
RepublicanAngela Underwood Jacobs 4,332,598 40.30%
Total votes 10,750,712 100.0%
Democratichold

See also

Notes

References

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