---
type: Person
title: "Eleni Kounalakis"
description: "CA Lt Governor — State of California"
role: "CA Lt Governor"
party: "D"
level: "state"
branch: "executive"
state: "CA"
tenure:
  start: "2019-01-07"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 4
ids:
  person: "cb7cc565-6156-46e4-bb99-d52c894e0ca9"
  office: "cbdb372e-3ac8-422c-9c88-561f883a0c14"
  tenure: "108d0937-e770-457c-b0f8-0a82163ee2a9"
  jurisdiction: "bd94ede7-e4c4-4d7e-b1d7-a7945263a6cb"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "Derived from governor jurisdiction"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, executive, ca]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Eleni Kounalakis

Current CA Lt Governor (State of California).

## Sources

- tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20
- jurisdiction: Derived from governor jurisdiction

Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).