Jeff Landry

Jeff Landry (Republican Party) is the Governor of Louisiana. He assumed office on January 8, 2024. His current term ends on January 10, 2028.

On December 21, 2025, President Donald Trump (R) announced that he was appointing Landry to serve as special envoy to Greenland in his second presidential administration. Landry said that this would not affect his position as governor.1

Landry was born in 1970 in St. Martinville, Louisiana. He joined the Louisiana National Guard during his senior year of high school, worked in law enforcement as a police officer and sheriff’s deputy, and started a tank testing company in 1995. Landry graduated from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette with a bachelor's degree in environmental and sustainable resources in 1999. In 2004, he graduated from Loyola Law School.2345