1. Sarah Ann Godlewski was born on November 9,1981 and is an American businesswoman and politician serving since March 2023 as the 31st secretary of state of Wisconsin.
21 Facts About Sarah Godlewski
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Sarah Godlewski was appointed secretary of state by Governor Tony Evers after the previous secretary of state resigned.
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Sarah Godlewski previously served as the 36th state treasurer of Wisconsin, from 2019 to 2023.
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Sarah Godlewski was a candidate for in the 2022 election, but withdrew from the race in July 2022, before the primary election.
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Sarah Godlewski completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in peace and conflict resolution from George Mason University.
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Sarah Godlewski completed a certificate in public treasury management from the National Institute of Public Finance and Pepperdine School of Management, was a national security fellow at the Air War College, and attended the University of Virginia Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership as well as the Executive Master of Public Administration program at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Between 2004 and 2012, Sarah Godlewski worked for defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton.
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Sarah Godlewski worked for Arapahoe County, Colorado, from 2012 to 2016 as the director of the Office of Strategy and Performance.
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In 2015, Sarah Godlewski co-founded investment firm MaSa Impact with her husband Max Duckworth.
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In 2016, Sarah Godlewski was the director of Women's Outreach for Wisconsin in Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
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Sarah Godlewski did not vote in the general election in Wisconsin, because she was unsure of whether she qualified as a resident, according to a spokesperson.
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Sarah Godlewski served on the board for the US Fund for UNICEF and served as chairperson of the UNICEF Advocacy Committee.
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Sarah Godlewski served on the board for mOm Incubators, the Arlington Academy of Hope, and George Mason University's School of Visual and Performance Arts.
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Just after the referendum, in April 2018, Sarah Godlewski announced her candidacy for state treasurer.
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Sarah Godlewski's opponents were former television anchor Cynthia Kaump and former state treasurer Dawn Marie Sass.
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Sarah Godlewski took more of the vote share than the newly elected Democratic governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general and flipped 9 counties that had voted for Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
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In January 2019, Sarah Godlewski was unanimously elected to serve as chairwoman of the state Board of Commissioners of Public Lands.
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In March 2020, Sarah Godlewski created the Treasurer's Homeowners Task Force.
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Sarah Godlewski was endorsed by EMILY's List, a Democratic political action committee that seeks to elect pro-choice women.
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Sarah Godlewski's campaign responded that the stocks had all been sold by early 2022 and she had not been involved in routine investment management.
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Sarah Godlewski dropped out of the race in July 2022 prior to the August 2022 Democratic primary and endorsed Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes.