Mike huckabee

Sarah Elizabeth Huckabee Sanders (néeHuckabee; born August 13, 1982) is an American Republican politician who is the 47th and current Governor of Arkansas since 2023.^[1] Sanders was the 31st White House Press Secretary from July 26, 2017 to July 1, 2019.

She served as Deputy White House Press Secretary from January through July 2017.

Sanders announced her resignation as Press Secretary on June 16, 2019 and left the office on July 1.^[2]

Sanders is the daughter of former Governor of Arkansas and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, and former Arkansas first lady Janet Huckabee.

On January 25, 2021, Sanders announced her candidacy for Arkansas Governor in the 2022 election.^[3] She won the Republican nomination in May 2022 and then the general election in November 2022. She is the first woman to hold the office and the first woman to be governor of a state of which her father was also governor.^[4][5]