Since 2022, Glenn Allen Youngkin, an American politician and businessman born on December 9, 1966, has held the office of the 74th governor of Virginia.
He worked at the Carlyle Group, a private equity business, for 25 years until becoming co-CEO in 2018. He is a Republican. In order to run for governor in 2020, he left that office.
Glenn Youngkin parents: Ellis Quinn Youngkin, Carroll Wayne Youngkin
On December 9, 1966, Glenn Allen Youngkin was born in Richmond, Virginia. He is the son of Carroll Wayne Youngkin and Ellis (née Quinn).
His mother was a nurse, while his father worked in accounting and finance while playing basketball at Duke University.
The family moved from Richmond to Virginia Beach when Youngkin was a teenager. He graduated in 1985 from the exclusive Norfolk Academy in Norfolk, Virginia. He won multiple basketball awards throughout high school.
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Youngkin was inaugurated during the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.
He has supported immunization campaigns against the illness but opposed vaccination mandates and outlawed mask requirements in public schools in Virginia; this prohibition was partially lifted as a result of court challenges.
Youngkin enacted a bipartisan state budget during his first year in office that combined increased school investment with extensive