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Michigan’s governor is elected to a four-year term. The governor’s responsibilities include supervising state government departments, appointing members to boards and commissions, submitting messages to the legislature and recommending legislation, submitting an annual budget to the legislature, issuing commutations, pardons, and extradition orders, and serving as the chairperson of the State Administrative Board.

This collection contains Administrative Subject Files from the Michigan Department of State, Executive Office dated 2003 through 2010. Material includes news releases, Public Service Announcements made by the Secretary of State, media interviews with Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land, and speeches made by Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land. A bulk of the collection is comprised of digital records, however, there is one slim box that contains physical copies of speeches made by Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land from 2003 through 2010 and a VHS tape of a Voting Public Service Announcement from 2004.

The Michigan Department of State is headed by the Secretary of State who is elected to four-year terms and can serve a maximum of two terms. The secretary of state is the chief motor vehicle administrator and chief election officer for the State of Michigan and is a voting member of several state boards and commissions. In the event of concurrent vacancies in the office of governor and lieutenant governor, including absence from the state, the secretary of state serves as governor.