Lieutenant Governor of Georgia

Lieutenant Governor
File:Seal of Georgia.svg Georgia State Seal
File:Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones 2023 (cropped).jpg Incumbent Burt Jones since January 9, 2023
Style	The Honorable (formal)
Residence	No official residence
Appointer	Elected by popular vote
Term length	4-year term
Inaugural holder	Melvin E. Thompson
Formation	1945
Website	Government website

The Lieutenant Governor of Georgia is a constitutional officer of the State of Georgia, elected to a four-year term by popular vote. The Lieutenant Governor is elected on a separate election from the Georgia Governor.

The office of Lieutenant Governor was created by a state constitutional revision in 1945.

The current Lieutenant Governor of Georgia is Republican Burt Jones.

List of lieutenant governors of Georgia

Parties

  Democratic (10)   Republican (3)

No.	Lt. Governor			Term in office	Party	Election	Governor
1			Melvin E. Thompson	January 14, 1947 – March 18, 1947	Democratic	1946		Herman Talmadge
—	Vacant			March 18, 1947 – November 17, 1948	—			Melvin E. Thompson
2	File:Marvingriffin (cropped).gif		Marvin Griffin	November 17, 1948 – January 11, 1955	Democratic	1948 (special)		Herman Talmadge
						1950
3	File:Ernest Vandiver (1962).jpg		Ernest Vandiver	January 11, 1955 – January 13, 1959	Democratic	1954		Marvin Griffin
4			Garland T. Byrd	January 13, 1959 – January 15, 1963	Democratic	1958		Ernest Vandiver
5			Peter Zack Geer	January 15, 1963 – January 11, 1967	Democratic	1962		Carl Sanders
6	File:George T. Smith.jpg		George T. Smith	January 11, 1967 – January 12, 1971	Democratic	1966		Lester Maddox
7	File:Lester Maddox.jpg		Lester Maddox	January 12, 1971 – January 14, 1975	Democratic	1970		Jimmy Carter
8	File:Zell Miller 1975.jpg		Zell Miller	January 14, 1975 – January 13, 1991	Democratic	1974		George Busbee
						1978
						1982		Joe Frank Harris
						1986
9	File:Pierre Howard.png		Pierre Howard	January 13, 1991 – January 11, 1999	Democratic	1990		Zell Miller
						1994
10	File:Marktaylorpic.jpg		Mark Taylor	January 11, 1999 – January 8, 2007	Democratic	1998		Roy Barnes
						2002		Sonny Perdue
11	File:Casey Cagle 2013.jpg		Casey Cagle	January 8, 2007 – January 14, 2019	Republican	2006
						2010		Nathan Deal
						2014
12	File:GeoffDuncan2018 (cropped).jpg		Geoff Duncan	January 14, 2019 – January 9, 2023	Republican	2018		Brian Kemp
13	File:Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones 2023 (cropped).jpg		Burt Jones	January 9, 2023 – present	Republican	2022