Gwen Walz

Gwen Walz (née Whipple; born June 15, 1966) is an American educator and public school administrator. She is the 39th and current First Lady of Minnesota since 2019. She is the wife of Governor Tim Walz.

Walz worked for over twenty years in the public school system as an English teacher. Her first teaching job was in Alliance, Nebraska.

When her husband became governor in 2019, she is the only first lady in Minnesota's history to have an office in the Minnesota State Capitol. Walz is in charge of a policy team focusing on education, corrections, and gun control legislation.

Whipple married Tim Walz in 1994 when he was also working as a teacher. They have two children. She went through in vitro fertilisation before giving birth to their daughter and first child.

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