(Radio Iowa) – Governor Kim Reynolds says it’s more than likely she’ll decide who to pick as Iowa’s next lieutenant governor AFTER the November election.

Adam Gregg, who’d been Iowa’s lieutenant governor since mid-2017, resigned in early September to take the top job at the Iowa Bankers Association. Reynolds says she didn’t have a lot of advance notice about Gregg’s decision, and then left on a 10 day trade mission to India. The governor indicated she and her staff are collecting the names of people she might consider, but interviews have not begun.

Reynolds says she’ll sit down with different people who she thinks might be a good partner.

Former Governor Terry Branstad chose Reynolds fas his running mate in 2010 and she took over as governor when he resigned to become U-S Ambassador to China. The person Reynolds chooses as lieutenant governor is likely to be her running mate in 2026, if she runs for reelection.