1. Garlin Gilchrist II was born on September 25,1982 and is an American politician and engineer serving as the 64th lieutenant governor of Michigan since 2019.
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Garlin Gilchrist's mother worked at General Motors for 32 years, and his father worked in defense contract management for the United States Department of Defense.
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Garlin Gilchrist moved to Redmond, Washington and worked for Microsoft for four years, as a software engineer, where he helped build SharePoint.
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In July 2014, Garlin Gilchrist moved back to Detroit, working for the city government under chief information officer Beth Niblock as the director of innovation and emerging technology.
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Garlin Gilchrist created the Improve Detroit smartphone app that allows residents to report issues for the city to address.
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Garlin Gilchrist served as founding executive director of the Center for Social Media Responsibility, within the University of Michigan School of Information, from the University of Michigan Detroit Center.
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In 2017, Garlin Gilchrist ran for Detroit City Clerk against incumbent Janice Winfrey.
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Garlin Gilchrist was selected as a Community Change Champion in Community Organizing in 2019 for his work to advance social and racial justice in the United States.
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On March 11,2025, Garlin Gilchrist announced his candidacy for Michigan governor, for the 2026 Michigan gubernatorial election.
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Garlin Gilchrist was named a vice-chair of the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
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On November 8,2022, Whitmer and Garlin Gilchrist were re-elected by a wide margin in 2022 Michigan gubernatorial election, defeating the Republican ticket of Tudor Dixon and Shane Hernandez.
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Garlin Gilchrist, later, claimed victory in reducing the racial disparities in COVID-19 deaths.
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Garlin Gilchrist served as cochair of the Michigan Joint Task Force on Jail and Pretrial Incarceration, a bipartisan working group of officeholders, law enforcement officials, and stakeholders assembled by Governor Whitmer, in 2019, to examine the growing jail populations, which had tripled in 30 years, despite historically low crime rates.