Joshua D ShapiroIncumbent

Josh Shapiro is Pennsylvania's governor, in office since 2023. In late 1998 he joined U.S. Rep.-elect Joe Hoeffel as legislative director, and the next year, at 25, became his chief of staff, while studying law at Georgetown University at night. He was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (153rd District), taking office in 2005 and leaving in 2012. He was elected to the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners in 2011, part of the first Democratic majority elected to that three-person board in more than a century, and served until 2017, when he became Attorney General. In 2024 he was on the shortlist to be the Democratic vice presidential nominee. His running mate is Lt. Gov. Austin Davis.

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