Chair of the United States Arctic Research Commission
In office March 10, 2011 – July 28, 2020
President
Barack Obama Donald Trump
Preceded by
Mead Treadwell
Succeeded by
Jon Harrison
7th Lieutenant Governor of Alaska
In office December 5, 1994 – December 2, 2002
Governor
Tony Knowles
Preceded by
Jack Coghill
Succeeded by
Loren Leman
Member of the Alaska House of Representatives from the 4-B & 3 district
In office January 19, 1987 – December 5, 1994
Preceded by
Jim Duncan
Succeeded by
Kim Elton
Mayor of Juneau
In office 1983–1985
Preceded by
Bill Overstreet
Succeeded by
Ernest Polley
Personal details
Born
(1947-02-01) February 1, 1947 (age 77) Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.
Political party
Democratic
Spouse
Bill Council
(m. 1977; died 2013)
Children
2
Education
University of Wisconsin, Madison (BA, JD)
Frances Ann "Fran" Ulmer (born February 1, 1947) is an American administrator and Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Alaska. She served as the seventh lieutenant governor of Alaska from 1994 to 2002 under Governor Tony Knowles, becoming the first woman elected to statewide office in Alaska, and lost the 2002 gubernatorial election against Republican Frank Murkowski. In 2007 she became the Chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA), before serving as Chair of the United States Arctic Research Commission between 2011 and 2020, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Frances Ann "Fran" Ulmer (born February 1, 1947) is an American administrator and Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Alaska. She served as the...
director FranUlmer (born 1947), first woman elected as Lieutenant Governor of Alaska Georg Ulmer (1877–1963), German entomologist Gregory Ulmer (born 1944)...
replace Democratic incumbent Tony Knowles. He defeated Lieutenant Governor FranUlmer in the general election and took office on December 2, 2002. Murkowski...
U.S. Senator Frank Murkowski defeated Democratic Lieutenant Governor FranUlmer. Murkowski became the first Republican elected governor of Alaska since...
December 2, 2002 – December 4, 2006 Governor Frank Murkowski Preceded by FranUlmer Succeeded by Sean Parnell Member of the Alaska Senate from the G district...
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Scott Lidia Selkregg Natalya Shelikof Arliss Sturgulewski Dora M. Sweeney FranUlmer Ada Wien Esther Wunnicke Class of 2010 Alberta Daisy Schenck Adams Alice...
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structure from the fiscal year (FY) 2008 capital budget. Shortly thereafter, FranUlmer was appointed chancellor of UAA, and began to intensively champion the...
and angry advocate for Alaska. Died in a plane crash near Dillingham. FranUlmer (born 1947), Lieutenant Governor 1994–2002, the first woman elected to...
Scott Lidia Selkregg Natalya Shelikof Arliss Sturgulewski Dora M. Sweeney FranUlmer Ada Wien Esther Wunnicke Class of 2010 Alberta Daisy Schenck Adams Alice...
the passage of the historic Anti-Discrimination Act of 1945. In 1992, FranUlmer, who represented Juneau in the Alaska House of Representatives (and who...
Knowles 87,693 41.08% Won Y 1998 Tony Knowles 112,879 51.27% Won Y 2002 FranUlmer 94,216 40.70% Lost N 2006 Tony Knowles 97,238 40.97% Lost N 2010 Ethan...
Siegelman (Democratic) (starting January 16) Lieutenant Governor of Alaska: FranUlmer (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas: Mike Huckabee (Republican)...
of Alabama: Don Siegelman (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Alaska: FranUlmer (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas: Winthrop Paul Rockefeller...
of Alabama: Steve Windom (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Alaska: FranUlmer (Democratic) (until December 2), Loren Leman (Republican) (starting December...
Scott Lidia Selkregg Natalya Shelikof Arliss Sturgulewski Dora M. Sweeney FranUlmer Ada Wien Esther Wunnicke Class of 2010 Alberta Daisy Schenck Adams Alice...
nomination for governor. Coghill instead ran unsuccessfully for governor. Ulmer instead ran unsuccessfully for governor. Parnell succeeded to the governorship...
5, 1994 Governor Wally Hickel Preceded by Steve McAlpine Succeeded by FranUlmer Member of the Alaska Senate In office January 1985 – December 3, 1990...
reaction to the attack on Arbil in Iraqi Kurdistan. September 5 – Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with...
governor of Alaska (1994–2002) and former mayor of Anchorage (1982–1987) FranUlmer, former lieutenant governor of Alaska (1994–2002), former state representative...
Campbell Jack Coghill Party Democratic Republican Independence Running mate FranUlmer Mike W. Miller Margaret Ward Popular vote 87,693 87,157 39,331 Percentage...
U.S. Senator Frank Murkowski defeated Democratic Lieutenant Governor FranUlmer. Murkowski became the first Republican elected governor of Alaska since...
(1850–1935), U.S. Representative from Missouri (Linden) Ben Tremain (1888–1971) FranUlmer (born 1947), Lieutenant Governor of Alaska (Horicon) Robert Scadden Vessey...
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