Kathy McGuiness
Kathleen Kramedas McGuiness is an American politician. She was elected the Delaware State Auditor in 2018.
McGuiness graduated from Cape Henlopen High School in 1985. She earned her bachelor's degree at the Florida Institute of Technology and moved to Boston to work as a pharmacist. After returning to Delaware, she bought a pharmacy in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where she was elected a town commissioner in 2000. She sold her pharmacy in 2002 to become a real estate agent. In 2010, she moved to Park City, Utah with her family, and she resigned from the Rehoboth town board in 2012 because she was unable to make the meetings. She moved back to Delaware and was elected to another term as a town commissioner in 2014. She ran for Lieutenant Governor of Delaware in 2016 but lost in the primary race. She was subsequently appointed to the Delaware State University Board of Trustees by Governor Jack Markell and reelected to the town board in 2017.
In 2018, McGuiness was elected state auditor after a contentious primary race against Kathleen Davies and former state representative Dennis E. Williams. She defeated Republican James Spadola in the general election to become the first woman elected to the position. She was sworn into office on January 1, 2019.
