Students also submitted recommendations for Lieutenant Gov. Kim Driscoll’s portrait, with 13 writing she should select former Lt. Gov. and Gov. Jane Swift.

WESTFORD — For fourth grader Emily Jamieson, former Massachusetts Acting Gov. Jane Swift inspires hope. Swift made history, both as the state’s first female governor — serving from April ...

If not Swift, Healey could have come up with a portrait of Evelyn Murphy. While she never became governor, Murphy, a Democrat, was the first woman elected lieutenant governor, serving with Gov ...

A portrait of former Gov. John Swainson hangs in the Michigan Capitol in Lansing, Mich., on July 10, 2023. In office from only 1961 through 1962, ...